Given the consistency with which the researchers in our study referred to serendipity, luck, or being in the right place at the right time, our results indicate that there is indeed a role for serendipity in scientific innovation.
For good or ill, the methodology of visual serendipity is our own.
It seemed like serendipity but our guide, Prem Singh Bodh, had known more or less when the group would arrive, after decades hiking trails in this corner of north India.
Part of what it is to be human hinges on the serendipity of our mental landscapes; what is retained, what is discarded and the hierarchy therein is premised on thousands of unintelligible shifts and triggers.
Serendipity sees our visit land during an Esteghlal v Persepolis football game, one of the region's most spirited derbies, at the 80,000-seater Azadi stadium in a working-class district in the south-west of the city.
In better moments, the whimsy of the drawing reminds me of the wonderful serendipity of our own romance: a scruffy college sophomore from rural Wisconsin meeting an enchanting 21-year-old woman from Hawaii in front of a train station in Tokyo.
Remember how a Walkman would sometimes eat a cassette tape, as if to say, "Enough already with Loggins & Messina!" But in other ways, we are stuck in pause, still listening to glorious Pavarotti but also blocking out the aural serendipity of our existence — the chance conversations, the songbird trills, even the bleats of car horns.
We can all use a little serendipity in our lives.
How do we find meaning in the face of that blank history — not to mention the serendipity of our own lives?
We'd been saved on a whim, but the very serendipity of our liberation hammered home a shocking lesson: More often than not, the people being held in these godforsaken places are as innocent as I was.
