A lot of times, the really interesting and unusual breakthroughs in hip-hop at that time on a sample basis where outside the realm of James Brown.
Dr. Bruun's layout, though no longer considered unusual, was a breakthrough.
If you are interested in observing The Scientific Method™ from a non-user's perspective and conveying the results to the public, remember that discussion and debate are a normal part of the process but breakthroughs are more unusual.
"I think creativity and real breakthrough ideas come from unusual places, and not just from hanging out with people just like you," says Beth Schoenfeldt, founder of Ladies Who Launch, a nationwide network of entrepreneurial women.
Cold callers often tout breakthrough technologies or other unusual opportunities to make a quick buck.
This last one was unusual for me – prior to the Breakthrough award I had only ever received one American prize and that was in gastroenterology.
But many scientists insist that its unusual properties will eventually lead to a breakthrough.
A year later, however, Jones had his big breakthrough with "It's Not Unusual," which became a major hit in the U.K. and in the United States.
That was on her 1983 breakthrough album, She's So Unusual, but here, prefaced by an emotional speech, she repurposes it as a power tribute to "the lights that have gone out in the world this year".
An unusual approach to research can, occasionally, result in a breakthrough that becomes the basis of an entire career or even an entire discipline.
