ds This week I had the pleasure of both attending a talk and meeting its speaker, the visionary Peter Dianmadis, who is the Founder and Chairman of the X Prize Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is simply "to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity" By offering a big cash prize for a specific

ember of the American Academy of Achievement, which mentors gifted children in the U.S. He was also the Executive Director of the Ocean X Prize for the X Prize Foundation, and has many years consulted for the MacArthur Foundation. Seckel had his own popular science column in the Los Angeles Times, but it was disconti