“The best discoveries are made when one is searching for something else”-Horace Walpole One of my favorite words, loaded with meaning and wonder, is serendipity. The word has an interesting origin ...

In the new year, we can all use some serendipity, right? Since the word was coined in the 18th century, "serendipity" has been used to describe all kinds of scientific and technological breakthroughs, ...

One of the benefits that space exploration brings to mankind is a happy serendipity. I have several examples of serendipity that we should explore together, but since folks may be unfamiliar with the ...

Swiss psychologist Carl Jung coined the term synchronicity to describe meaningful coincidences—when events are not connected by causality, yet we take them to be meaningfully associated with one ...

Netflix and Amazon’s Prime Video know you are tired of choice. Both streaming services recently introduced what might be the perfect hack: a shuffle button that eliminates choice and plays a randomly ...