Yesterday's declaration by James Brokenshire, the immigration minister, about a crackdown on firms in construction, catering and cleaning that employ "illegal" immigrants may be a serendipitous change of heart by the government that will lead finally to the long-sought extension of the remit of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority to deal with labour exploitation in these areas.
In another example that resulted in a serendipitous change in localization, recently developed benzoresorufrin-based probes accumulate in the ER, whereas similar fluorescein-based probes do not.
In 1992 he stumbled across the notion of "sustainable development" in an article in the newspaper Le Monde, and that serendipitous moment changed his life.
Then ask someone how he or she became successful and suddenly it becomes a story of serendipitous encounters, unexpected changes in plans, and random consequences.
A serendipitous adventure of change encounters with strangers on a train.
This too is a "network effect" - there are more interesting people to meet and learn from; and the bigger the variety of people, the greater the chances of a serendipitous encounter that could change your life.
Just two examples of serendipitous happenings that have changed our world have been the invention of Penicillin and the microwave.
What we don't know is how the change from the serendipitous human interaction of the face-to-face to the selective and focused — and, I would say, emaciated — interaction on social media changes the set of feelings that we have, which then affects the way we interact within our communities.
That may change with the serendipitous discovery of a full-color e-paper material that's also flexible and power-efficient.
This constant dialog between digital simulation and visualisation on the one hand, and analogue testing and physical prototyping on the other, continued throughout the construction and assembly process as serendipitous occurrences required constant design system changes.
