These prizes have become more common since 1995 thanks in large part to the X Prize Foundation, which encourages breakthroughs in five areas — the life sciences, exploration, energy and the environment, education and global development — where the "commonly held belief" is that "a solution is not possible".
She was the 37th president of The Explorers Club, and founded The Explorers Museum, a not for profit entity dedicated to preserving and fostering exploration and discovery.She has written numerous books and articles on the sciences, exploration and the arts.
When you look at history" – achievements in arts, science, exploration, for instance – "it's a prejudice based on simple fact".
What started as a surrogate battlefield for nuclear war has become a multinational programme of science, exploration and collaboration.
In spite of the situation we found ourselves in, the AAE had a conversation with the public about science, exploration and Mawson.
They could congratulate themselves for brilliant achievements in the areas of science, exploration and industry, and even convince themselves that they had not, like Faust, had to sell their souls to the devil in exchange for these accomplishments.
But Sylvia has crossed so many boundaries, done so much original field work, and been active in so many areas simultaneously pure science, exploration, technology, communications, and conservation that she seems to have broken all previous molds.
The music videos, soundtracks, documentaries, and experimental videos produced through the years have earned the program more than a dozen national awards from such organizations as the American Film Institute, the Florida Department of Citrus, the San Francisco Science Exploration Festival and PBS.
"Right now NASA's Mars science exploration budget is being decimated," Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, said in testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
But Sylvia has crossed so many boundaries, done so much original field work, and been active in so many areas simultaneously — pure science, exploration, technology, communications, and conservation — that she seems to have broken all previous molds.
We're still doing incredible natural history, science, exploration and archaeology, but we're also doing geopolitical stories, whether it's in Cairo or Gaza or Cuba — and in the U.S., like the teenage brain or fracking in North Dakota.
