While serendipity has often been associated with luck or happy accidents, its origin suggests that it goes beyond just ...

There is nothing like starting off with a bang. In 1867 Alfred Nobel accidentally discovered dynamite after putting a popular but flammable salve on a cut finger. Call it serendipity. Rubber was an ...

Editor’s note: Henry “Hank” Nothhaft, Jr. is the co-founder and CMO of Trapit, a virtual personal assistant for Web content still in private beta that was incubated out of SRI and the CALO project (as ...

The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. I’d like to tell the story of a paradox: How do we bring the right people to the right place at the ...

We often think of serendipity as luck—a fortunate coincidence or a happy accident. But what if it’s something more intentional? What if serendipity is less about chance and more about conditions?

Spotify today unveiled Serendipity, an online map that displays a stream of coordinates when two users played the same song at the same time. Serendipity isn’t live, but is reflective of real-time ...