There are different paradigms.

It challenges the norms.

You see, because both the paradigms are human constructions.

And so, I have here what we call the paradigms.

Habits, certainties, convictions, exclamation marks, paradigms, dogmas.

This is challenging the rule of law.

Maxwell's Demon defies the laws of thermodynamics.

Humour is a sharp weapon challenging an authoritarian regime.

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And then she challenges all of her competitors to do the same.

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The final missing piece, the real paradigm buster, is this a gas station on orbit.

Accompanied by a squandering of the nation's material wealth that defied credulity.

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And I like this because it challenges the way that we design stuff, and build stuff, and potentially distribute stuff.

You've heard that word several times in the last four days, and everyone's familiar with Kuhnian paradigms.

Now 3D printing can break away barriers in design which challenge the constraints of mass production.

The finale defies logic, gives new insight into the problem, and audiences express their amazement with laughter.

And the issue in Africa is that there are fewer nurses, really than doctors, and so we need to find new paradigm for health care.

Today, too, it is not America s military strength that threatens or challenges China, but rather the enduring attraction of the 160 American dream.

In fact, we're in a phase where transformative change is necessary, which opens the window for innovation, for new ideas and new paradigms.

If you put a five year old child's dexterity against the best robots of today, the answer is simple the child wins easily.

In this first dream, a boy defies the wish of a woman, possibly his mother, to remain at home during a day with such weather.

BRUSSELS The tragic exodus of people from war torn Syria and surrounding countries challenges the world s reason and sympathy.

A long track record of success can warp executives analysis, distort their decision making, and leave them blind to incipient paradigm shifts or rapid changes in a market.

China challenges Japanese control over more than seven square kilometers of islets called the Senkaku Islands in Japan, and the Diaoyu Islands in China in the East China Sea.

Their inevitably imperfect measures need to be supplemented by more timely and comprehensive responses by other policymaking entities and that, in turn, requires much more constructive national, regional, and global political paradigms.

Helgi has to challenge Hothbrodd In the third section (containing stanzas 13 to 20), which is called the Old Völsung Lay , Sigrún's father had promised her to Hothbrodd, the son of king Granmarr.

The BRICS no strings policy explicitly challenges the conditionality imposed on borrowers by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, though the policy remains untested.

Activist Caroline Casey tells the story of her extraordinary life, starting with a revelation . In a talk that challenges perceptions, Casey asks us all to move beyond the limits we may think we have.

Activist John Horne shared another video of a protester defying a police armoured personnel carrier near the house of Ali Salman, only to be shot from behind as he was trying to flee

They're saving us by redefining and re imagining a future that defies and blurs accepted polarities, polarities we've taken for granted for a long time, like the ones between modernity and tradition, First World and Third World, oppression and opportunity.

But, for now, Hirohito remains a singularly unfathomable and isolated character who defies common understandings alas, to the detriment of a better understanding of what actually happened.

Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we ll be miserable if we don t get what we want. Our psychological immune system lets us feel truly happy even when things don t go as planned.

In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can't.

Most notably, Russia s perceived ambition of recapturing its Soviet era influence is challenging the rules based order that was established after World War II, and a surge in religious and political extremism is threatening democratic and liberal values.

Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washington, she brings science classes and conservation programs to inmates, with unexpected results.

As a Palestinian, Mr President, you couldn't be fooled, sick as you are of these fine principles, trotted out but never applied against Israel, that state without declared or acknowledged borders which enjoys an impunity which defies all reason.

The Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much it's bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood boiling cross examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf and many so called solutions are making the situation worse.

And the second reason is because, whereas in Europe and North America, the state's power is continuously challenged I mean in the European tradition, historically against the church, against other sectors of the aristocracy, against merchants and so on for 1,000 years, the power of the Chinese state has not been challenged.

In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes a world record and what his often death defying work means to him. Warning do NOT try this at home.

And what all this means is that paradigms take far too long to shift, that complexity and nuance are ignored and also that money talks because we've all seen the evidence of pharmaceutical companies funding studies of drugs that conveniently leave out their worst side effects, or studies funded by food companies of their new products, massively exaggerating the health benefits of the products they're about to bring by market.

If we are to shift paradigms, if we are to make breakthroughs, if we are to destroy myths, we need to create an environment in which expert ideas are battling it out, in which we're bringing in new, diverse, discordant, heretical views into the discussion, fearlessly, in the knowledge that progress comes about, not only from the creation of ideas, but also from their destruction and also from the knowledge that, by surrounding ourselves by divergent, discordant, heretical views.

I moved there primarily to be part of a learning environment that validated the way that I knew that kids learned, and that really wanted to investigate what was possible when you are willing to let go of some of the paradigms of the past, of information scarcity when my grandmother was in school and when my father was in school and even when I was in school, and to a moment when we have information surplus.