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That's a lot more than conventional science has done.
Maybe because these conventional notions of progress haven't delivered big benefits in terms of happiness, there's been an increased interest in recent years in happiness itself.
And unlike conventional buildings, the top of the building is celebratory.
My background is not exactly conventional medical training.
Yet when it came to a disease like diabetes that kills Americans eight times more frequently than melanoma, I never once questioned the conventional wisdom.
If the conventional wisdom about nutrition had failed me, was it possible it was failing someone else?
And two, if we're willing to be wrong, if we're willing to challenge the conventional wisdom with the best experiments science can offer, we can solve this problem.
On the left side, you see the yield produced using conventional agriculture, with a 100 percent phosphorus dose.
So now my obsession is printing, and I'm really fascinated by the idea of using conventional printing processes, so the types of print that are used to create many of the things around us to make paper and card interactive.
So what we do is we take conventional printing presses, we make conductive inks, and run those through a press, and basically just letting hundreds of thousands of electrons flow through pieces of paper so we can make that paper interactive.
You don't have that kind of fine control with conventional leather.
The conventional wisdom in economics and the view in business has historically been that actually, there's a tradeoff between social performance and economic performance.
The conventional wisdom has been that business actually makes a profit by causing a social problem.
That's been the conventional wisdom.
A lot of companies have fallen into that conventional wisdom.
Businesses got trapped into the conventional wisdom that they shouldn't worry about social problems, that this was sort of something on the side, that somebody else was doing it.
This is why we designed our model to be very different from conventional agricultural development programs.
Prosthetists still use conventional processes like molding and casting to create single-material prosthetic sockets.
And so, for my Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab, I designed custom prosthetic sockets quickly and cheaply that are more comfortable than conventional prostheses.
It's a jury of men and women with Ph.D.s, and unlike a conventional jury, which has only two choices, guilty or not guilty, the scientific jury actually has a number of choices.
These forests, compared to a conventional plantation, grow 10 times faster, they're 30 times more dense, and 100 times more biodiverse.
When organizations direct women toward resources that focus on the conventional advice that we've been hearing for over 40 years, there's a notable absence of advice that relates to business, strategic and financial acumen.
And this is why conventional advice to women in 40 years hasn't closed the gender gap at the top and won't close it.
So the conventional business model in the West is more for more.
If we want to build organizations that can innovate time and again, we must unlearn our conventional notions of leadership.
We found we could engineer the gene into a conventional rice variety that's normally susceptible, and you can see the two leaves on the bottom here are highly resistant to infection.
I went to the greenhouse and I saw that the conventional variety that was flooded for 18 days had died, but the rice variety that we had genetically engineered with a new gene we had discovered, called Sub1, was alive.
On the left, you can see the Sub1 variety, and on the right is the conventional variety.
In fact, it produces three and a half times more grain than the conventional variety.
The conventional papaya around the outside is severely infected with the virus.
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