Sentences with phrase «about radical breakthroughs»

Photo: Flickr, CC A Bigger Carrot for Innovation The X-Prize Foundation's mission is to «bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity», and right now, a breakthrough in oil spill cleanup certainly would make the world a better place, so

Diamandis heads up the organization and is focused on bringing about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity by encouraging innovators to solve some of the greatest challenges facing the world today.

About XPRIZE: XPRIZE is an educational (501c3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, thereby inspiring the formation of new industries and the revitalization of markets that are currently stuck due to existing failures or a commonly held belief that a solution is not possible.

For all the fanfare about radical breakthroughs in neuroscience, we have no scientific reason to believe that our emotional lives can now he understood in purely physical terms.

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He'd done similar, equally compelling work prior to his breakthrough (2009's About Elly stands as arguably his strongest film), but with an increased eye on Middle Eastern cinema in the wake of Kiarostami's Certified Copy and the jailing of the more radical, uncompromising Jafar Panahi, coupled with the film's heart - tugging narrative, A Separation arrived at an opportune time for his country's rise to international cinematic prominence.

In Australia the High Court's judgments in Mabo v Queensland (No. 2) constituted a radical breakthrough in thinking about native rights.