Serendipity (2001)The New York of Serendipity is a place where magic is possible.
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I know it's all one sentence, but sometimes serendipity strikes.
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The whole reason I was writing this book was serendipity.
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For Messina, such was the serendipity of a coaching life.
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Serendipity 3 Serendipitous Eau de Parfum, $45, available at Amazon.
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"There was actually a lot of serendipity involved," Wilde explains.
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One of the great benefits of education is the serendipity.
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A few largely effortless adjustments can up your serendipity game.
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"It was probably serendipity and perfect timing," Mr. Baker said.
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Hilarious, disjointed stories result, with the occasional flash of serendipity.
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"Serendipity," I said, repeating the word a few times slowly.
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Gail Freedman: It was serendipity, as so many things are.
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Serendipity, of course, has been an important ingredient in their success.
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Pagan Kennedy DO some people have a special talent for serendipity?
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Serendipity requires an observing eye, creative associative thinking and content expertise.
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Hardcastle synthesizes the serendipity of human craft with high-gloss artificiality.
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We choose to believe this is serendipity and jump on them.
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"Generating serendipity is a big theme of my life," he says.
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"Pictures are a combination of serendipity, instinct and experience," Buell said.
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It will destroy one of my favorite things about Twitter: serendipity.
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It felt like I was missing something: a sense of serendipity.
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"It was just curiosity-based work, totally serendipity," Dr. O'Neill said.
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"It is just a matter of serendipity and opportunity," Worthy said.
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It's perfectly safe, but there's no access, no possibility of serendipity.
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Lindholm found himself on a line opposite Gaudreau almost by serendipity.
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He inspired me with his offbeat curiosity and penchant for serendipity.
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More important, timing and a little serendipity are on his side.
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We built them through decades of work, compromise, setbacks, and serendipity.
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Case and point: I somehow convinced my then-boyfriend to take me to Serendipity 3 in NYC three years in a row (we lived in Connecticut) for our anniversary, all because I loved the romantic-comedy Serendipity.
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The song is a result of raw talent and a little serendipity.
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It was serendipity, a pleasant surprise, that life had saved for me.
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Alex Forsythe: Several events aligned somewhat by serendipity but also by tragedy.
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" Each winning story will be aired on a future episode of "Serendipity.
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With these and other efforts running concurrently, serendipity has become more likely.
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At Serendipity 3, the chef makes a record-breaking $214 grilled cheese.
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They are just as quick to highlight moments of kindness and serendipity.
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In a bit of serendipity, Microsoft was two blocks down the street.
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But the serendipity also happened in Red Hook when nothing was around.
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Have you ever experienced that kind of serendipity in your career before?
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"Speaking of serendipity, do you want to be my wife?" she asked.
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Serendipity is essentially a synonym for good luck, but it's hardly random.
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The serendipity of English renders much of the original language strangely contemporary.
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Behind the acquisition is a story threaded with serendipity, return, and collaboration.
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WeWork has 203 locations in 50 cities, while Serendipity has six locations.
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It was a bumpy path, with progress both by design and serendipity.
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Meanwhile, the authors of a paper titled "On the Exploitation of Serendipity in Drug Discovery" puzzled over the reasons the 1950s and '60s saw a bonanza of breakthroughs in psychiatric medication, and why that run of serendipity ended.
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Chance, luck, timing, and serendipity are very important to my relationship with photography.
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That bit of serendipity helped the company build something that was GDPR compliant.
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The grilled cheese isn't the only record-setting menu item served at Serendipity.
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"To me, a cottage suggests the serendipity of such a place," he said.
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" For dessert, head back to Serendipity to try their $1,000 "Golden Opulence Sundae.
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Bronzan also wants to introduce more surprise and serendipity to the event calendar.
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But precisely because it is resistant to curation, Twitter allows for more serendipity.
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I've come to understand that we stumble on the best things by serendipity.
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Rohmer's world is one of serendipity, fortuitous encounters, loves lost and miraculously found.
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Travel is about serendipity, and that applies to the good or the bad.
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Perhaps because the scheme is yet another way in which airlines are nobbling serendipity.
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Dr Moller's serendipity was to meet, 30 years ago, a taxidermist called Johannes Erritzoe.
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Other people were "occasional encounterers," who stumbled into moments of serendipity now and then.
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That awkwardness gave rise to moments of lovely serendipity — and pockets of blissful ignorance.
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The serendipity is the result of satellites needing solar cells to power their electronics.
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Sara believes there is an order to the world that transcends the explainable: serendipity.
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But I did and, because I'm human, I wanted to share that serendipity. Look!
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It's version of the city amplifies micro-moments of serendipity into many individuals' stories.
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As he tells The Verge over email, it was simply a matter of serendipity.
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The word 'serendipity' keeps recurring when it comes to how my projects take shape.
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How we search for useful enzymes 90 years later is still down to serendipity.
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There is also a serendipity to book shopping offline that's hard to replicate online.
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Also that it pays to believe in serendipity, especially in New York apartment buildings.
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Ownership of an item with the correct spelling of an entry is just serendipity.
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Now, serendipity had brought them another abandoned baby, one they were able to adopt.
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Much more serendipity to the content & what I'm seeing is more interesting and varied.
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I got serendipity of a sort, though, as I turned south onto Amsterdam Avenue.
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Variety, serendipity and a sense of shared experience will continue to guide the layout.
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A stroke of serendipity means they are also well-suited to artificial-intelligence work.
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Serendipity returned me to Jeffrey Steingarten's "The Man Who Ate Everything" the other day.
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But Dr. Duffin and his wife were pioneers last summer, using old-fashioned serendipity.
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The tragedy of 9/11 made the Patriots' patriotic Super Bowl victory into serendipity.
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The swift serendipity that followed is a well-documented chapter of the Benjamin Booker story.
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Serendipity and an in-flight magazine led Abby Hussey to a $2 million-plus business.
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Yes, they've got your Christmas viewing covered with options like Serendipity and (weirdly) Krampus Unleashed.
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Books as therapy If a book can change your life, why leave that to serendipity?
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At its birth, serendipity meant a skill rather than a random stroke of good fortune.
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One important point he makes is that "serendipity" in information discovery is a good thing.
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If Superbad taught us anything it is that the formula for memory-making is serendipity.
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The selection of Pence had gained momentum during a week of serendipity for the governor.
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"Much of it actually depends on serendipity," said Sorrell, recalling the early years at WPP.
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Similarly, there is a lot of serendipity and celebration of the everyday in the soundwalk.
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"Serendipity" is the word they use to describe the way they met, and re-met.
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The discovery of Viagra is one of the classic stories of serendipity in drug development.
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The rest was a mix of a little hard work and a lot of serendipity.
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To find them, people have had to rely largely on word of mouth or serendipity.
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John Arenas is taking a very different approach with his co-working business Serendipity Labs.
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One was "Serendipity" (2000, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds), a catalog of life's pleasant surprises.
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With macabre serendipity, the tsunami had hit during the peak of the holiday travel season.
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There were moments in my 27-year Times career when luck happily turned to serendipity.
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Part serendipity and part planning, said Dan Biederman, executive director of the Bryant Park Corporation.
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The opportunity arises by accident, a moment of serendipity and a portent of future trouble.
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Of course, the origin story includes the requisite happenstance and serendipity, plus a touch of controversy.
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And something we call facilitated serendipity: access, which is really about connecting with great problem solvers.
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After turning serendipity into business, the start-up found itself in the fast lane to success.
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The actress is known for her work in movies like The Aviator, Serendipity, and Love & Friendship.
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That's the serendipity Bandrovschi is talking about—that's what she wants to reclaim for the abstaining.
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Only a handful of such instances of scientific serendipity have occurred in the history of biology.
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Around that time, serendipity struck again, for the city's public-transportation agency became a Pentagram client.
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For hundreds of years, new materials were discovered through trial and error, or luck and serendipity.
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Hseih said he founded Llamapolis "because I wanted to maximize serendipity and randomness in my life."
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The serendipity of life: "If only I had gone in a few minutes earlier," he muttered.
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This kind of musical serendipity is very specific to SoundCloud because of the platform's unique content.
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Their purpose, he explained, is to weave disruption and serendipity into the fabric of the city.
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In all its complexity, Salvador is a hard place to make connections and revel in serendipity.
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I would best describe the birth of this puzzle as a collision between serendipity and luck.
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It's something to do with both the insecurity and serendipity of the way we live now.
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Credit serendipity for this confluence of productions; there's no coordinated effort, no big anniversary to mark.
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Visitors to New York City's famed Serendipity 3 typically opt for its popular frozen hot chocolate.
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The museum is bigger and more demanding, but there's more fun, and a sense of serendipity.
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"Serendipity," she wrote, "is getting to the zoo just when it's feeding time for the seals."
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We should actively seek out elements of messiness and magic, serendipity that pure data can't provide.
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Facebook might design "serendipity buttons", he suggests, allowing users to click for opposing viewpoints or unfiltered perspectives.
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The family capped off the weekend with ice cream sundaes at New York City's famous Serendipity 3.
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Not content with improving existing crops, she wants to create a new one by domesticating serendipity berries.
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I am fully aware of the serendipity of being on the winning team at the right time.
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Then there was what you might call the serendipity of the road: chance meetings with good people.
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A nightmare morning for one California man had a happy ending thanks to a stroke of serendipity.
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And we've learned from SU that while simplicity and serendipity is important, so is enabling contextual curation.
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Close behind, Serendipity 3 in Manhattan sells a $1,000 ice cream sundae, as CNBC Make It reports.
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Replacing labs with videos may rob students of another important experience from labs: The serendipity of science.
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It's about the ability to have the sanctity of your own thoughts and to allow for serendipity.
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"Let It Linger" is packed with such compositions, and seeming serendipity is the secret of their charm.
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If you eliminate the brick-and-mortar retailer's advantage of serendipity, consumer dollars will absolutely flow online.
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After Puckette's taste awakening, her switch from hobbyist to professional arrived under similarly modest circumstances, with novelistic serendipity.
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Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has also said he owes his success to the serendipity of his upbringing.
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The point is there is a predictable public utility to transportation but there's also a serendipity and surprise.
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Serendipity has long been a staple of scientific study, and a new discovery by MIT is no exception.
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This can work, as it did last year, especially with clever set pieces and some awards-magic serendipity.
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For now, find your local 7-Eleven, then grab a place on the couch with your own Serendipity.
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"It's about embracing the serendipity of the city and engaging with its diversity," Ijeoma tells The Creators Project.
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"These quite fantastic twists and turns have given me a profound respect for serendipity," he wrote in 2013.
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Another aspect of constructing that I enjoy is the serendipity that arises when you are building the grid.
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Afterward, just by serendipity, I saw an ad in the newspaper, and then went to work for Unicef.
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In another world, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the restaurant Serendipity 3 offers a $295 hamburger.
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I had to compromise, balancing some of its major hubs with scenic drives, leaving enough space for serendipity.
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Mr. Garcia worked hard in the service of his passions, but a little serendipity always lifts one's narrative.
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In each market, Serendipity is looking for the right experts, whether they're for franchises or company-owned offices.
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The couple recall this serendipity as we sit on a wooden bench behind that house, theirs since 2012.
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By a happy serendipity, it goes on wide release on January 20th, the day of the Presidential Inauguration.
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He and Sarah Brown, also a geologist and co-author, and his wife, found their evidence by serendipity.
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It might be, 'It was sweet serendipity running into you' — but I didn't say that because that's hyper corny.
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Also the manner in which they display their books, the amusement and serendipity of how they curate their shops.
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Kate Beckinsale tried to recreate the famous elevator scene from her 2001 film Serendipity — with a reluctant hotel employee.
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Nonfiction movies are complex combinations of the uncontrollable serendipity of reality and the subjective structural choices of the filmmakers.
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They're a thing all right — but it feels like we're banking that serendipity for our careers, not the club.
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For example, people are familiar with the idea of serendipity, and so that didn't need a lot of introduction.
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But melding casting, character, and director is a fussy magic, more a result of serendipity than planning or foresight.
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It may not be as indie, but it's made up in scale of serendipity of networking and new connections.
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Back in the days of linear TV and printed newspapers, there was a certain serendipity to discovering new things.
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Gemini: Sara (Kate Beckinsale) from Serendipity Brainy and whimsical, flaky and fantastic, Sara is a Gemini through and through.
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It was a poorly organized effort that was defeated by a combination of people power, loyal units and serendipity.
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"It's like a grilled cheese on steroids," Joe Calderone, the Serendipity chef who invented the cheesy indulgence, tells CNBC.
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"It's the most extravagant, opulent thing you can purchase in New York City," Serendipity owner Stephen Bruce tells CNBC.
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The group stopped by popular dessert destination Serendipity 3, where they enjoyed a strawberry sundae and frozen hot chocolates.
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Rather, it's this sense of mystery and serendipity that like a fingerprint makes every sound shape unique and beautiful.
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"'It was truly an act of serendipity and one that I am honored to have experienced," the statement continued.
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If the joy of serendipity is one of the reasons to travel, then improvisation is how you get there.
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Those are my serendipity-aided stories and you can't have them, but it's easy enough to create your own.
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"Pretty much," Miller said, and now they laughed together for a moment, sharing in the serendipity of it all.
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But its most salient advantages come from its location and industrial mix, more to do with serendipity than policy.
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"You might almost call it serendipity," said Josef Joffe, the publisher and editor of the German newspaper Die Zeit.
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The pop-up, which celebrates the "discovery, serendipity, and generosity of color," looks ready-made for Instagram and Snapchat.
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"One of Serendipity 3's long-time customers Andy Warhol once said, 'The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting,' and that's exactly how our team feels about the launch of our new super premium line of ice cream," Mark Smolin, CEO of Serendipity Brands, said in a press release.
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That it was perfectly dovetailed with heated election rhetoric around domestic job loss was simply a bit of serendipity, however.
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The photographs capture unguarded moments and celebrate the beauty of serendipity in a city which didn't have much to celebrate.
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Serendipity So this one flirts with being a Christmas movie, but counts because how could this meet-cute be overlooked?
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He pitched them on Slab City; by coincidence or serendipity, photos from the site had been on their mood board.
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The two grabbed dinner at Serendipity 3 in New York City along with DiCaprio's friend Lukas Haas and another woman.
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The talk show host hit up Serendipity 3 in NYC Thursday night after a looong night of celebrating her bday.
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Serendipity 2000's Frrrozen Haute Chocolate needs to be ordered two weeks in advance and is available all year round.
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Here a few indulgent confessions from Wall Street: Serendipity 2000 offers one of the most expensive burgers in the world.
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Letting go and letting serendipity take over gives you the opportunity to make the most of each experience and interaction.
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The iconic restaurant and frozen hot chocolate dessert was featured in the movie "Serendipity" with John Cusak and Kate Beckinsale.
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After last weekend's tributes at Dodger Stadium, there was lovely serendipity in Scully's finale taking place at AT&T Park.
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All these lists of algorithm-driven, cherry-picked "choices," though, make me nervous that I'm missing the magic of serendipity.
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So when I noticed a small, sentimental moment of serendipity last week, I decided to celebrate it with a stranger.
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For instance, spontaneity and serendipity, a large part of what makes travel surprising and rewarding, tend to get short shrift.
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Cher, 72, had ordered us frozen hot chocolates from Serendipity 3 — "the most magical place in New York," she said.
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Serendipity does have a lengthy roadmap for growth, with over 100 projects in the pipeline over the next few years.
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Or maybe it's a community, a place given coherence by the rough serendipity of strangers adjusting to one another's presence.
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There are always moments of serendipity where the instrument will surprise you, and in my case at least, that's irresistible.
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By curious serendipity, the ensuing period of unemployment spawned my first serious bike ride, and with it my first book.
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After two months, the hospital connected her to Serendipity II of New York Therapeutic Communities, a residential program for women.
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As part of her recovery, she also attends Narcotics Anonymous meetings, and she herself uses the aftercare service at Serendipity.
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Russo was overjoyed at the serendipity of it, but she soon realized no one in her hometown shared her excitement.
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Finding love through that podcast — with assists from other corners of the Internet and some cosmic serendipity — is something else entirely.
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Randomness has its perks: it's unpredictable, it encourages serendipity, and it largely avoids making assumptions about what content someone "should" see.
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She recently tried and failed to recreate the famous elevator scene from her 2001 film Serendipity with a reluctant hotel employee.
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Not only does it give your brain a chance to churn over options, but it also creates the opportunity for serendipity.
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"The way I like to think about it is, our job is to create what I call intentional serendipity," he said.
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I think the thing about holiday romances is that you get a little high on the serendipity of the whole thing.
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The trick, he says, is to engineer the chances that serendipity will occur, which means pursuing lots of paths at once.
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Kopas sees this serendipity—happening across things you end up becoming obsessed by—as all but vanished from the modern internet.
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There was so much serendipity in this: people I worked with from a 2013 play, someone from Netflix saw my work.
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Turner's appearance wasn't simple serendipity; once fans did a little more digging, they discovered that Turner and Savior are songwriting partners.
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Serendipity 3 also made the Guinness Book of World Records in 2007 for a $25,000 sundae, which is no longer sold.
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Serendipity struck again and led him to another deaf-blind man — a kitchen worker from Long Island with no acting experience.
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"If the joy of serendipity is one of the reasons to travel, then improvisation is how you get there," he writes.
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Such serendipity may be possible only if classical music exists on services alongside pop, hip-hop, country, Latin and the rest.
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Together, with the virus threatening, the last thing they wanted was to take away someone else's serendipity, hospital bed or life.
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Together, with the virus threatening, the last thing they wanted was to take away someone else's serendipity, hospital bed or life.
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This melding of our humanity and the serendipity of science will be difficult, if not impossible, to recreate through a screen.
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For Nixon, it appeared to be a moment of serendipity — a chance to do what he had long wanted to do.
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" Mr. Erizku's 2015 film "Serendipity," which debuted at a MoMA PopRally party, features a pedestal holding a bust of Michelangelo's "David.
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She is about to delete the fake profile when, by some kind of satanic serendipity, Madison appears in her screaming panel.
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In retrospect, that two such happy, carefree, unproblematic things took over the internet on the same day seems like wild serendipity.
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At Serendipity, Ms. Williams participated in the Recovery Through Entrepreneurship program, which received a $20,000 grant in Neediest Funds last year.
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Serendipity arrived in our language on this day in 1754, a coinage of Horace Walpole in a letter to Horace Mann.
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I'm a believer in serendipity, so that email from Action Books was my signal to follow up with a response: Congratulations!
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None of his ideas were quite working out, until serendipity brought him to a side street downtown around five in the afternoon.
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The app also added recently a feature called "What If" to create serendipity by connecting users based on things they both love.
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Search algorithms leave no room for serendipity, and without that, some of the magic leaks out of the pursuit of the past.
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Serendipity Brands has released a line of ice cream pints inspired by the restaurant's iconic treats at participating 7-Eleven locations nationwide.
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Here's where Three Identical Strangers veers from a tale of lovely serendipity to one of a deliberate, unethical tampering with people's lives.
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There's been true serendipity this week between the North Korea and U.S. tests, even if the timing is supposed to be accidental.
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Sagittarius: Jonathan (John Cusack) from Serendipity A Sagittarius would leave their supermodel-esque fiancée at the altar to follow their true north.
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If you're interested in cozying up to some hot cocoa this Valentine's Day, Serendipity 3 in New York City is your spot.
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But at New York City's famed Serendipity 3 restaurant, the sandwich is both record-setting and budget-busting at $214 a pop.
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Streaming is built on the power of the algorithm, which inhibits risk and serendipity and creates an illusion of ease and comprehensiveness.
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That serendipity makes "Good Girls Revolt" a little like a newsmagazine cover story — well-timed, well-meaning, with a few smart takes.
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At some point you have to wonder if the thing we're hacking away isn't just annoyance or inefficiency, but potentially delightful serendipity.
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With Serendipity in 2014, Kyle McDonald proposes a map connecting people listening to the same piece at the same time on Spotify.
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I still catch myself bumping up against little moments of serendipity that feel like they were written, more than events that happened.
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It's mostly that serendipity trumps strategy, and to do that you've got to basically create an environment in which "entre" can happen.
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Cities have become epicenters of new capital and creativity, because proximity breeds serendipity and strength, from which new ideas and opportunities arise.
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Founded in 0003, a year after the launch of WeWork, Serendipity is sticking with investors who live, sleep and breathe real estate.
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By serendipity, I discovered Maybelline's nude palette during a Target excursion, and it's become a valued member of my makeup arsenal since.
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You might be the sign of royalty, but you work your butt off, and your success comes from much more than serendipity!
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If we wish to cultivate the art of serendipity, we must give experts enough time to get distracted by random observations and thoughts.
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He's doing what she's wanted to do for years, and he stumbled into it with the serendipity that artists dare not dream of.
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She argues that a self-optimized, purely mechanistic approach to life discounts the juicy stuff present in the unproductive moments: poetry, nuance, serendipity.
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Moreover, UrWork recently announced a partnership with Serendipity Labs (another co-working space) to open a co-branded location in Manhattan's Financial District.
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The serendipity of her choosing to bring a guest had taken her away from a dangerous place and to a much safer place.
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In an act of foodie serendipity, the American example even shows chicken nuggets, though they're not resting on that sweet hot dog bun.
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At the Pixel event, Pichai highlighted Google's advances in areas like voice and image recognition, but this is partly the result of serendipity.
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"Back in fourth grade, as a matter of fact, I was in a very serious Holton-Arms production of 'Serendipity,'" Louis-Dreyfus continued.
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The course of history, the scholars say, owes more to impersonal forces and serendipity than to the efforts of some dead white males.
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So it seemed like serendipity when, in 2008, she got a job as a creative director of a new lifestyle company in India.
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I love the serendipity of the library that puts Austen beside Althusser and E. P. Thompson beside James Thomson, Tennessee Williams beside Raymond.
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She came upon her biographical subject "by sheer serendipity," she writes, while researching how the state of Virginia responded to the Brown v.
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New friends and the currents of serendipity brought me to the horses and the lions — and gave me two experiences I'll never forget.
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Robinson says that the building was designed "to encourage a little bit of serendipity," with the goal of creating a more inspirational environment.
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And then we realized that he's actually going to be announcing right when the piece is coming out, and that's just ... Just serendipity.
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The actress, who turned 40 on Tuesday, and the 51-year-old actor arrived at Serendipity in New York City for a celebratory dinner.
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Enjoying a Frrrozen Hot Chocolate at New York City's Serendipity 3 is a bucket list item worth making a trip to the city for.
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Hollywood followed suit by cutting shots of the Twin Towers from such films such as Zoolander (2001), Serendipity (2001), and Kissing Jessica Stein (2001).
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In Schneemann's provocative paintings, sculptures, installations, performances, films, and videos, serendipity often plays a crucial role, interceding as an intermediary to life's bothersome snags.
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Armory Hill Advocates is working on behalf of three home healthcare service providers — My Visiting Nurse, Optimal Wellness Health Homecare and Serendipity Loving Care.
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When I speak of my family it may seem like I'm showboating my own cosmic serendipity, that I was blessed with such considerate blood.
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However, in an event of grand serendipity this week, we got two jaw-dropping full frontal male nudity scenes in one night of television.
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The show's reappearance now, just as impeachment hearings are getting underway, is the kind of serendipity that we might not have known we needed.
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It doesn't acknowledge the importance of spontaneity, serendipity, setback, resilience and (to use the coinage du jour) grit in life and in eventual success.
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There's an element of chance to the findings—nobody was looking for lapis lazuli on these teeth—which lends them the charm of serendipity.
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Billy Name: I met Andy Warhol when I was working as a waiter at Serendipity, the hip dessert restaurant on the Upper East Side.
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We were fascinated with the place, and serendipity led us to meeting Jeff, Kate [Bemesderfer], and other folks who were here at the time.
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And this book is their attempt to uncover the details of their lost civilization — a pre-smartphone era where serendipity ruled — to today's youth.
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The museum should reward serendipity to a certain degree, and making unexpected discoveries on the way to whatever you think you were looking for.
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According to Entertainment Weekly, it is the second film that the group watched together: Last Thursday, they united to check out Prune Nourry's documentary Serendipity.
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Maximum Hospitality, a franchisee of Serendipity Labs in Nashville, Tennessee, already has marketing, accounting, legal and sales teams for the hotels it manages, Arenas said.
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Paterson isn't about serendipity or mythicism, it simply serves as proof that America is a country of all things and all people—good and bad.
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Intudo (a combination of the Bahasa Indonesian words for integrity, sincerity, and serendipity) will look for companies in e-commerce, finance, healthcare, education, and media.
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But if you speak to Mini Metro's developers, twin brothers Peter and Robert Curry, this resemblance to real transport networks was more serendipity than design.
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IN 1968 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London held an exhibition called "Cybernetic Serendipity", Britain's first show exploring connections between art and new technology.
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The idea of marrying yoga and goats came about in what Morse calls "a series of serendipity moments" that followed some not so pleasant ones.
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"[Now] what I do is I jump on the motorcycle with the dog, ask if there's any serendipity, and go around and watch the smiles."
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In an Instagram post Wednesday, she recalled the premiere of her Weinstein-produced film "Serendipity" in 2001, when the mood following 9/11 was somber.
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There's no promise of serendipity, of the full-body massage of a room-size subwoofer, of the I-was-there sensation of a great concert.
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These images are the products of serendipity, or days when film crews and news photographers happened to occupy the same block at the same time.
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"Fascinating a G.A.A. zap became part of, that it was memorialized cinematically by a 1971 Hollywood film — was that serendipity?" he wrote in an email.
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"For real estate insiders, it is unsurprising to see the pushback on valuation," said John Arenas, chief executive of Serendipity Labs, a rival of WeWork.
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"For real estate insiders, it is unsurprising to see the pushback on valuation," said John Arenas, chief executive of Serendipity Labs, a rival of WeWork.
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The pair stepped out over the weekend to grab dinner at Serendipity 3 in New York City alongside DiCaprio's close friend Lukas Haas and another blonde.
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Still, algorithms take some of the adventure and serendipity out of hunting for new entertainment, and rarely nudge a customer towards anything way off his radar.
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In the mid-1990s, she began a study of about 100 people to find out how they created their own serendipity, or failed to do so.
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They also made an appearance at dessert hot spot Serendipity 3, with Kim posting a photo of their famous frozen hot chocolate on Snapchat on Monday.
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Blockbuster, for all its managerial faults, did what video stores do best: it relied on people and serendipity to create an atmosphere ripe for customer discovery.
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The story of how I met Austin in a moment of serendipity is presented here as a datapoint in the history of the maligned, misunderstood Google+.
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In a stroke of serendipity, the surgeon had previously written a paper on just that type of situation and was prepared to continue with the surgery.
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" Senkut's approach with Felicis is all about "engineering serendipity" with "diverse, calculated, risk-adjusted bets in markets where there is a lower level of VC competition.
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I loved the nonstop scroll of news stories and the serendipity of the timeline — the random juxtaposition of stories, so much like a newspaper's front page.
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Poetry teaches you how to build a better search engine because it teaches you how to reflect on the needed balance between expectation, utility and serendipity.
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Travel agents must walk this line of planning something safe but not boring, convincing the traveler that this totally chiseled-out itinerary has room for serendipity.
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The building, two doors east of Serendipity 3 restaurant and up the block from the Roosevelt Island tram, also offers 2,900 square feet in air rights.
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The thing that really touched me in the film is that — God, I love him, and what a story, what a ridiculous story, of kismet, serendipity.
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WeWork operates 38 locations in New York City, including five in the Financial District where the UrWork-Serendipity Labs venture is set to launch in November.
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Not only that, but there are parts of Ms. EILISH's song that are AUTOTUNED, and in a stroke of serendipity, that's in the grid, too. 28A.
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Ms. Rosenblum hadn't been looking to buy, but given the serendipity of the situation, she couldn't help running the numbers to see if it was feasible.
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In a telephone interview on Friday, she discussed the making of "Chapter 3: The Sin" and the serendipity of directing both Werner Herzog and Baby Yoda.
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METROPOLITAN DIARY Serendipity on a rainy Saturday, a pair of cheap black gloves and more reader tales of New York City in this week's Metropolitan Diary.
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Sometimes you hear a song and it connects with such serendipity, it's like it was developed inside your stomach and is now flowing out through your eyes.
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While out for his walk, and in a complete moment of serendipity, Zalmout—a trained paleontologist—noticed a single, skeletal finger joint just lying in the sand.
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Not much went right for him, whether that was release schedules, the taste of the times, what people wanted, what they didn't - he didn't benefit from serendipity.
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Mr Sunstein wants an "architecture of serendipity" to combat these forces: that is, media that promote chance encounters and democratic deliberation like the public forums of old.
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While serendipity played a role in Roper's journey to the tech giant's Mountain View headquarters, his previous jobs and unique set of skills helped him stay there.
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Lisa Kivirist owns Inn Serendipity Farm and B&B in Browntown, Wisconsin, where she serves cookies, muffins and breads that she takes pride in making for guests.
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With biotech companies bringing in billions in funding and revenue, that's a hot commodity, and because of the serendipity involved in its origin, a highly rare one.
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Sarah Lawrence College, which produces the radio drama anthology podcast "Serendipity," on Friday hosted the inaugural Sarah Awards, billed as the first award ceremony for audio fiction.
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It is not through mere serendipity that white supremacist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and the 'Alt Right' are celebrating the election of Donald Trump.
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Serendipity led me to them: I came across their homeland while traveling in the Qilian Mountains to report on the effects of climate change in western China.
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I wish I could say I cleverly planned out the southeast to have several entries that could be clued on theme, but it was all just serendipity.
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Its gears are so innumerable and dynamic — so susceptible to serendipity and mishap — that even a single outcome of its ceaseless ticking can confound science for centuries.
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"Wait, Blink" feels most organic in these moments of squalor and when its plotlines intersect, an impressive feat given that its narrators revel in serendipity and coincidence.
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Profits at older locations are a crucial data point that landlords want to see, said John Arenas, chief executive of Serendipity Labs, a privately owned WeWork competitor.
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Profits at older locations are a crucial data point that landlords want to see, said John Arenas, chief executive of Serendipity Labs, a privately owned WeWork competitor.
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Serendipity 3 has received "a tremendous amount of publicity" for its dishes, Bruce said, adding that it doesn't have any plans to create more "golden" dishes at present.
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The only part that made me upset to any degree was that somebody [wrote] that when I saw Kourtney, I said, 'It was sweet serendipity running into you.
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"Life does not always go as planned, but the beauty of it is, that it can surprise you in any moment with the sweetest of serendipity," she explained.
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Perhaps it's serendipity or astrology or maybe (probably?!) just general coincidence that Rejjie Snow also chose today to release a select few cuts from his upcoming debut album.
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A chronological timeline might sound mundane or predictable, but there is some odd serendipity and surprise that comes with seeing everything in the order that it was posted.
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ASUS took to the stage today, just after Acer wrapped up, in a bit of alphabetical serendipity, showing off the latest addition to the company's Android Wear line.
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Refinery29 spoke to the triple threat about the serendipity that led him to this role, what's next in his career, and how skateboarding is like a transcendental experience.
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I worry a bit that the simplicity and casual serendipity that defined Pokémon GO have been abandoned for a level of complexity that may be daunting for some.
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Most attendees let serendipity be their guide through the ranks of startups, but we recognize that some folks prefer a more targeted approach, especially as Disrupt gets bigger.
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Serendipity, the faculty or instance of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident, is often considered one of the most difficult-to-translate words in the English language.
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Facebook isn't big on serendipity, because your network is usually defined by family and friends and less by those you might follow outside of your core social circle.
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Ruminating over the Serendipity-style possibilities had Beckinsale actually made a run to the post office and not (ew) been 10 years his junior and therefore totally illegal?
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A few days before, Jolie, Zahara, Shiloh, Maddox and Pax attended the New York City premiere of friend Prune Nourry's documentary Serendipity at the Museum of Modern Art.
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There's a serendipity to the geographical placement of the work that echoes the element of chance in the stock market that can change the value of a commodity.
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And there this strange tale might end, except that through a mixture of serendipity and meticulous research, Ms Summerscale is able to add one final, heart-stopping twist.
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Mr. Spearman's decision reflected a combination of serendipity, personal curiosity and institutional direction, for Elizabethtown College had just begun offering a degree and core courses in interfaith studies.
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Serendipity is a blessing, not a waste; it enlarges our sense of what's possible (both good and bad), and our understanding of the true complexity of the world.
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When it comes to music, I work with what I find in the cupboard, or on walks around the city—within the dual paradigm of precarity and serendipity.
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Her co-star Sonja Morgan shrieked with delight at the mad serendipity of seeing Ms. de Lesseps, then somehow managed to knock over the step-and-repeat backdrop.
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In August 2015, Mr. McGarry entered the Serendipity program at New York Therapeutic Communities, which assists substance abusers in the criminal justice system who require longer-term intervention.
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But sometimes you just need to hold an old book — to measure its heft, linger over its imprinted words and be open to the chance of serendipity within.
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If you can't make it to Carbondale, you have another chance: By cosmic serendipity, it's also a perfect place to view America's next total solar eclipse, in 2024.
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It's as if the Warren team took the chaos and serendipity of an old-fashioned New England town hall and had McKinsey reinvent it to maximize every efficiency.
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There were odd flashes of serendipity — as when an errant paint splotch on an artist's rendering inspired the Met's crystal "sputnik" chandeliers, which still rise before each performance.
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Mr. Weiss grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and has traveled the city for years, snapping moments of urban serendipity, primarily in black and white.
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Call it serendipity: after a stint at Barnard College and moves away from, then back to, New York, she took the wrong bus and ended up in Soho.
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"Serendipity often plays a significant role in fundamental scientific research and our discovery here is no exception," said John McGeehan, lead author of the new study, in a statement.
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Though likely a matter of pure serendipity, throughout his football career Gianluigi Buffon has adhered to the Kintsugi philosophy far more vehemently than any of his on-field contemporaries.
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GA: It sums up this project with the confluence of serendipity and intention, of building relationships, but also having the subject be representative of a generation and their heritage.
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"It was serendipity that I bought at the bottom, as a opposed to I made the stock market go up," Dimon told CNBC's "Squawk Box " in a phone interview.
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In a bout of serendipity, Percy's agent had an office next to Stitcher's, and when he caught word of the project, he threw his client's hat in the ring.
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But, there are infinite ways in which things can unfold, and I am sowing my seeds of hope for that rare gem of serendipity that might make everything align.
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The project had gotten to the point of being able to demo it to groups like the GWC class when the serendipity that happens at Imagineering often kicked in.
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It is expressed in the ingenuity of its layout, its integration with the streets, the serendipity of its art, the richness and variety of its materials and ancillary spaces.
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But that kind of serendipity is fine with Mr. Joseph, who compared it to his youthful experience of flipping TV channels, only to happen across a movie in progress.
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Both actors had their big break in the late 2010s horror blockbuster franchise It. While the casting decision may seem like serendipity, it was actually a lot of work.
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Thanks to these hi-vis vests we got into three places for free, and then got some weird perks thanks to serendipity, which was also thanks to the vests.
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The 43-year-old Oscar winner attended the New York City premiere of friend Prune Nourry's documentary Serendipity with her children, Maddox, 17, Pax, 15, Zahara, 14, and Shiloh, 12.
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"Thank you to the nicest people at Serendipity 3!!!" he captioned a photo from when the girls were much younger, sitting with their parents and enjoying a famous N.Y.C. treat.
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It was only natural that this baby shark energy, which had sprung out of nothing but serendipity, charisma and some good ol' baseball boredom, would follow them into the postseason.
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Going into this record there was room for energy to be injected and room for playfulness and serendipity, but I'd still arranged all the parts and I'd written them out.
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The point about serendipity is just that if you eliminate mistakes then, you're going to be too dependent on immediate and recent experience and not open enough to productive surprises.
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Of course, I couldn't go to Serendipity 3 every single day — my bank account just wouldn't allow it — so luckily I've recently discovered a temporary stand-in: the restaurant's fragrance.
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I live with the knowledge that pure serendipity freed me from having to make a choice faced by many of my peers: prison, Canada, a fabricated 4-F (medical deferment).
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I am not sure how many events are there, because I've mostly been covering developments at the diving pool, which turned green last week, but that's the fun of serendipity.
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This moment of serendipity is partly what prompted Marie LeBlanc Flanagan, co-founder of music distributor and site Weird Canada, to build a national holiday around the genre in 2014.
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One segment in particular, about people who claim to be hyper-sensitive to the radio signals that are given off by mobile devices like smartphones, was a matter of serendipity.
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"We hope our project brings magic and serendipity to a new reality where hundreds of thousands of people might be stuck inside for the next month," Baskin and Hawkins said.
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As is universally true, the flexible traveler — open to moments of serendipity and to abandoning an established itinerary — is more likely to experience a full range of the region's enchantments.
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Fortunately for him, almost all of his material, whether in the form of story or professional connections, comes his way with an-antelope-stumbles-in-front-of-a-lion serendipity.
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Soon after, he kicks-off his seminal 230D grid Mondrianesque kinetic sculpture series that includes the seminal "Cysp 19613" (21961), which appeared in Jasia Reichardt's famous 21 exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity.
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The regimented routine of living at Serendipity in Brooklyn — including a strict meeting schedule and room cleanliness inspections — offered invaluable structure and allowed productive habits to supplant his old ones.
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Simmons also posited that there was an element of serendipity to these teams' current predicaments: The current freshman class just happens to have an unusual number of astoundingly good quarterbacks.
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He was referred to the Serendipity program at New York Therapeutic Communities, a member agency of FPWA, one of eight organizations supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund.
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That's the story this book tells, and it will involve a bicycle (several, in fact), which will carry him through India, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, following a map called serendipity.
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Somehow, Casamigos's agave-shaped logo also found its way into countless paparazzi shots of Mr. Clooney and Ms. Crawford going to the chiropractor or running errands, as if by serendipity.
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"The cases where misconduct comes to light is often by serendipity," said Barbara O'Brien, a law professor at Michigan State University and the editor of the National Registry of Exonerations.
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In "Serendipity" (2001), a romantic comedy, Jeremy Piven's character brags about writing at the New York Times, before an overheard phone call between him and his boss reveals the painful truth.
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If there is some serendipity in this ocean of grief, let it be that I got to mourn among black writers who knew this particular ocean as well as I did.
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Serendipity also played a key role: it was only in going through some old video recordings that they rediscovered the footage of Helen, and began to think about including her story.
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Cubo's overall objective is to fast-track São Paulo's startup scene, foster entrepreneurs and provide them with Silicon Valley-like perks, a close-knit community, more serendipity and vital business connections.
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In addition to being featured in the 2001 film Serendipity, the eatery has also long been a hot spot for celebrities including Marilyn Monroe, Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian and Oprah Winfrey.
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The Serendipity 3 Golden Opulence Sundae in NYC costs $1,000 and contains, among other luxury ingredients, Tahitian vanilla ice cream lacquered in gold leaf and topped with an edible gold flower.
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These were marketplaces built around serendipity, with almost no guidance from the platform on what to charge, how to charge, or how to find the best talent for a particular project.
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Grab a straw or spoon (or both) and enjoy the Frozen Hot Chocolate from Serendipity 3 in New York City, which will make you feel like you're in a romantic comedy.
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Each member was given a solo turn as well — V's sensual R&B on "Singularity" was a high point, and on "Serendipity," Jimin pulled off some balletic, "Matrix"-esque dance maneuvers.
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In a bit of serendipity, a quick search of the DailyLit site shows 13 of Dickens's 14-and-a-half novels available for electronic distribution (sorry, fans of Chuzzlewit and Drood).
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During its history, Serendipity 3 has been bestowed with creating the world's most expensive dessert: a $25,000 ice cream sundae containing edible 23-karat gold and 28 cocoas, called "Frrrozen Haute Chocolate".
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In a sort of dark serendipity, the whole debacle was chronicled in a documentary called Lost in La Mancha, which was directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe and released in 22.
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"I'd say 80 percent serendipity of having a child and the other 20 percent just going 'I just want to do an animated movie' because they're so fun to do," he says.
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On December 13, 2018, the page published allegations that Gupta, formerly a guest curator of the Serendipity Arts Festival in Delhi, had been sexually inappropriate with a number of the festival employees.
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Because sometimes serendipity is a better way to find something, a feature called "Reelgood Roulette" lets you shake your device while on the Discover tab to get a non-personalized, random suggestion.
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More people than ever are listening to podcasts, but as they soon find out, discovering new ones is a cumbersome process that lacks the serendipity users take for granted in other apps.
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Like the self-checkout tills at supermarkets, this removal of social friction from our everyday lives may be convenient, but it also drains our routine from the possibility of any social serendipity.
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The latest Star Wars film was, as anticipated, a merch juggernaut, but there was no better bit of serendipity than a startup smartphone-controlled toy maker and the movie's scene stealing droid.
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It took a four-month window of serendipity in late 2009 and early 20093 when Democrats had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate for his health-care law to squeak through.
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Serendipity played a part in Van Marwijk's appointment, given that he was available to take over after walking away from Saudi Arabia over contractual disagreements despite guiding the Green Falcons to Russia.
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With further serendipity, Eric Clapton was also at British Grove, doing some mixing, and in the next session he ended up sitting in on two songs, joining the improvisational weave of guitars.
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And yes, she would like very much to have that photograph — a black-and-white bit of serendipity, hidden in a book hidden in a library hidden in The New York Times.
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The better technology is at automating tasks and anticipating our behavior, they argue, the greater the threat to our own skills, and to the serendipity that can result from delay and deliberation.
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For the rest of my time in Mexico City, I marveled at the serendipity of it—how, despite geography, and then weirdly because of it, and Instagram, we were able to connect.
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" The Dead & Company musician then shared the actual details of his interaction with Kardashian, 40, which involved a valet line and '70s German rock band The Scorpions — and not the words "sweet serendipity.
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This might seem like a subtle addition, but it signals a big move by the company to supplement its main business built around discovery and serendipity with a more traditional retail shopping experience.
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The visually sumptuous images are coupled with engaging tales of the exotic locations, and the supreme effort and persistence involved in their creation – along with a healthy dose of serendipity and great timing.
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But I think that serendipity dimension and the judgment factor is crucial, actually, to news media and also crucial to ... it's not only crucial to a business audience but a more general audience.
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With little serendipity and lots of hard work, Brazilian-born Goncalves has achieved what most immigrants only dream of: He owns a successful business in New York and can call his own shots.
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The program began in London as a way to help like-minded tech connect with the potential to start projects, so it does mirror the serendipity of meeting new friends in a bar.
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The 43-year-old Serendipity star is mother to 18-year-old Lily Mo Sheen from her previous relationship to actor (and Underworld costar) Michael Sheen, who is currently dating comedian Sarah Silverman.
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Scientific serendipity Like many scientific discoveries, the new finding is "somewhat accidental," said study co-author Chunlei Liu, an associate professor in electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
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In one particularly harrowing anecdote, Beckinsale details an outburst from Weinstein when he felt the actress didn't behave sexily enough at the 2001 premiere of Serendipity, just weeks after the 9/11 tragedy.
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Such deals rely on a heavy dose of serendipity: namely that your neighbor will want to sell at the same time that you want to buy, and will agree to sell to you.
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First, Rhodes's history makes clear that innovations in energy are rarely the work of one genius and happen at a slow, incremental pace, marked by frequent setbacks as well as serendipity and happenstance.
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Show Us Your Wall Rubén Blades, the musician, actor and Latin American cultural emissary, had collected art — casually, usually based on serendipity — for decades before he married the actress and singer Luba Mason.
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Serendipity, based in Rye, New York — 30 miles north of WeWork's Manhattan headquarters — has just raised $11.3 million from investors, including billionaire Craig Hall, one of the top real estate developers in Dallas.
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"Visitors' reactions to the bathrooms can be best described as awe and serendipity, mainly because they encounter an experience not typically found in public facilities," said Dan Biederman, Executive Director, Bryant Park Corporation.
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Mr. Silvers preferred to mine the tastes and opinions of gifted writers and editors whom he chose for being able to offer all manner of bookish recommendations and delights, not least some serendipity.
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Mr. Maher, who could trace his career at McSorley's to a bit of end-of-the-rainbow serendipity in Ireland, began by tending bar at the saloon in 1964 as an Irish immigrant.
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"There's a serendipity and immediacy to the in-store experience," said Todd Dipaola, chief executive and founder of inMarket, which analyzes anonymous location data from the mobile devices of 50 million U.S. consumers.
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But he said he worries that the apparent freedom of choice on the internet is making people more isolated, pushing audiences onto a track of entertainment-by-algorithm and robbing them of serendipity.
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The gilded ingredient has provided a helping hand in elevating the status of one New York-based restaurant, Serendipity 3, after it received a number of Guinness World Records for its gold-infused dishes.
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Of course, even if we do organize the study of serendipity, it will always be a whimsical undertaking, given that the phenomenon is difficult to define, amazingly variable and hard to capture in data.
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Now, Crown is taking the serendipity of destruction even further with a new work of the same name, a three-channel video installation capturing her destruction of a glass box etched with her sketches.
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The outing comes less than a week after Jolie and four of her kids attended the New York City premiere of friend Prune Nourry's documentary Serendipity at the Museum of Modern Art on Thursday.
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"Scaling up serendipity:" In a recent paper, Kittur and his colleagues outlined a process for taking the ability of finding analogies out of one individual's mind and distributing it among many people — and machines.
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It was a sense of wonder and excitement spurred on by the serendipity of cruising, the idea that you could forget your inhibitions and meet someone incredible, brought together by fate in the trails.
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Serendipity was this real cool place; Kim Novak used to come in all the time because she was being kept by the young Aga Kahn in his apartment up the street, ha, ha, ha!
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The study, which was published in August in the Journal of Applied Physiology, arose from serendipity, says Trevor Day, a professor of physiology at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada, who oversaw the research.
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Maybe the secret to an awards show isn't joke writing or pizza-and-selfies stunts but faith: trusting in the moments that come from serendipity and emotion — which is to say, usually, from awards.
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Maybe, with another five and a half years of practice, I could learn how to incorporate fine dining, attentive guides and comfortable transport into a trip full of street food, local friends, serendipity and adventure.
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I compared such acts of algorithmic serendipity to the "Hand of God" chess move that Deep Blue used to confuse Garry Kasparov into thinking the computer had trespassed into realms formerly limited to brilliant humans.
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The efforts by Darnold and Myers provided a bit of serendipity on an afternoon in which the Jets celebrated the 217th anniversary of their lone championship team, the Super Bowl III team quarterbacked by Namath.
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Serendipity Labs' rollout is a franchise model that draws partners mostly from the hotel industry who have signed area of development agreements for the suburbs or secondary markets, said John Arenas, founder and chief executive.
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"The quintessential serendipity of New York, that sort of walking into a bar and not knowing if you're walking in for 20 minutes or for six hours, that's something we want to cultivate," said Bandrovschi.
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Hundreds of posts follow, defending CRJ as an underrated pop star, sharing what her music means to the posters, and delighting in the serendipity of discovering fellow CRJ fans in r/NBA, of all places.
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Be it in a tone of unabashed celebration or soft, caring words like Jimin's "Serendipity," self-love and staying true to yourself have always been a continuous theme in BTS's ethos, which cannot be ignored.
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Thanks to CrunchMatch and the Disrupt app, it's never been easier to find the right people and companies, though letting serendipity do her thing on walk down Startup Alley is always a good idea too.
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One of the most difficult things for a show to do is to realize the serendipity of a successful dynamic — say, between Quinn and Rachel — and tend its growth without letting self-consciousness smother it.
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Second, the love focuses on two attributes: Navigation (I easily get to what I want), and discovery/serendipity (I reach neat content that I didn't know existed, or thought would be impossible to get to).
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While StumbleUpon may have not gotten the same reputation of a social media service as Facebook or Twitter, it was an incredibly popular "serendipity engine" that made browsing the web a randomized and curated experience.
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" Richard Cope, senior trends consultant at Mintel, explained to CNBC via telephone that for Waterstones, the "motives of doing this are to win greater trust," as consumers are increasingly "looking for more serendipity in their choices.
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I miss the invitation to leave your life at the door and the unknown on the other side—you never know who you'll sit next to, who you'll fall into conversation with, what serendipity might unfold.
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He is actually a big believer in the power of serendipity, and he said just by having that conversation, it started him down the road to thinking more seriously about Salesforce's role in this developing technology.
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We learned from utilities everything we need to know about cloud infrastructure There are plenty of movies analyzing the yin and yang between destiny and choice — from The Adjustment Bureau to Serendipity — and even Final Destination.
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The absence of obvious moralizing, the catch-as-catch-can prosody, the raggedy serendipity of his long-necked and balding birds and animals turn out to spring from someplace deep in his sly and adaptable personality.
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The looks — both play with white — aimed to celebrate serendipity, as well as "the purity of this new phase and this new era," said Ms. Samuel, whose styled celebrities include Yara Shahidi and Michael B. Jordan.
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But it's likely that its original draw — why the tweet garnered so much interest in the first place — was partly because it's the kind of reasonable serendipity that feels not too far-fetched to believe in.
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The idea for mitochondrial transplants was born of serendipity, desperation and the lucky meeting of two researchers at two Harvard teaching hospitals — Dr. Emani at Boston Children's and James McCully at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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The fine preservation of weapons including swords, lances and halberds was due to serendipity - factors such as the bronze's high tin content and favorable soil composition, the scientists decided after examining 464 bronze weapons and parts.
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"We wanted the editing and visual style to stray away from the conservative paradigm and we were able to film candid performances with ambiguous narrative while utilizing the serendipity of the locations themselves," says Grandson & Son.
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Bravo, Z. Opening Ceremony, Sandy Liang NYFW Does CNY For New Yorkers who celebrate both new clothes and the Lunar New Year, we occasionally experience a bit of serendipity that makes for one hell of a week.
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The reason, I'd suggest, is serendipity, for mess requires a certain openness, a willingness to give over to improvisation, to respond to what is there rather than what has been predetermined, to learn more than to know.
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I thought about all the hard work (and all the serendipity) that went into making our store unique, and how in the blink of an eye, a mega-corporation could swoop in on our new record sales.
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Maybe that sounds silly coming from a 21-year-old whose music career started in high school, but Uzi's relentless focus on living in the moment makes it feel like hard-won good fortune and genuine serendipity.
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In the current climate of gender politics, "that serendipity makes 'Good Girls Revolt' a little like a newsmagazine cover story — well-timed, well-meaning, with a few smart takes," James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times.
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It shows Andy Warhol and Keith Haring drinking coffee at The Odeon, a bistro in Tribeca, and Jean-Michel Basquiat posing with enormous bowls of ice cream at Serendipity 3, a diner on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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But in an e-commerce world, there's still not a lot of companies that have nailed the idea of serendipity or discovery shopping, the kind of shopping a lot of people still do in the physical world.
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By some cosmic serendipity, this college town will be among the best places to witness the Great American Eclipse as it whisks across the contiguous United States, the first total solar eclipse to do so since 1918.
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Walloped by the forces that hit every old manufacturing enclave — from globalization and automation to a rising demand for skills — the area sustained its prosperity through a mix of the right investments, favorable geography and sheer serendipity.
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Raúl de la Torre, whose work is featured at the Four Seasons Hotel Abu Dhabi and Morgan Stanley offices, is showing his 2016 "Serendipity X (10)" works on paper, which he both paints and embroiders, for $500.
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While Pakistanis may have moved from the arranged to the semi-arranged sort of marriage, Americans have moved from the love by accidental chance or serendipity to a more calculated -- if not algorithmic-driven -- sort of love.
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It was the early blogosphere instead of Twitter mobs, serendipity instead of ruthless curation, geek culture as an insurgency rather than a corporate establishment, online as an escape for eccentrics rather than an addictive dystopia for everyone.
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The knock on traditional e-commerce sites has long been that they take the serendipity out of shopping — that is, they're good for transacting when you know what you want, but not so good when you don't.
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I signed up early for the streaming service and quickly found myself pirating less while enjoying the serendipity of scrolling through the quirky Netflix movie categories to watch films I'd forgotten about or had forgotten I'd seen before.
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Here in "The Neck," where seven breweries have opened within a short bike ride of each other in just the last three years, serendipity is celebrated, dogs and children are welcome, and you can come as you are.
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It also helps if you trust serendipity; that lets you trust that what you're currently experiencing is exactly what you're meant to experience, and hence, you're having the exact experience you need to have at any given moment.
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Millennials, according to recent headlines, are killing hotels, department stores, chain restaurants, the car industry, the diamond industry, the napkin industry, homeownership, marriage, doorbells, motorcycles, fabric softener, hotel-loyalty programs, casinos, Goldman Sachs, serendipity, and the McDonald's McWrap.
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It was partly serendipity (more on that later) and partly a result of Mr. Manuel's moxie — a trait that no doubt helped win over those jazz veterans he performed with some 20 years ago at the Dunton Inn.
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Mr. Shevlin said he felt a kinship with his fellow Rockaway native and a shared serendipity that landed Mr. Kilgallon at a historic battle and a Gaelic-speaking garbage man at a prestigious New York University academic program.
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"Serendipity often plays a significant role in fundamental scientific research and our discovery here is no exception," said Professor John McGeehan, director of the Institute of Biological and Biomedical Sciences in the School of Biological Sciences at Portsmouth.
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Her son, David Amato, then 19, had found the bag after a bit of serendipity — a usually reliable door lock suddenly became stuck, which gave him pause to glance down and spy a shopping bag topped with sweaters.
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Still, it may not have happened if not for the serendipity of a new college graduate with a nascent denim line and a highly developed activist streak meeting a former jeans designer with personal experience of sexual harassment.
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He was less a Janeite than a committed tourgoer — "I'm more into medieval history, but by coincidence and serendipity this fit into my schedule," he said — but what he lacked in experience he made up for in enthusiasm.
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Safi Bahcall, a PhD physicist from Stanford who co-founded and led Synta Pharmaceuticals as CEO through its IPO on NASDAQ in 2007, has been thinking about serendipity in science for years, and Loonshots is his first book.
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Don't count on having your story show up in a Moment — there's a whole lot of serendipity required there (right place, right time and noticed by the curation team) — but when it works, it could be a good fit.
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That's why we need to develop a new, interdisciplinary field — call it serendipity studies — that can help us create a taxonomy of discoveries in the chemistry lab, the newsroom, the forest, the classroom, the particle accelerator and the hospital.
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Graphcore is building what it calls an IPU — aka an "intelligence processing unit" — offering dedicated processing hardware designed for machine learning tasks vs the serendipity of repurposed GPUs which have been helping to drive the AI boom thus far.
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Benioff told a story of being at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland where a bit of serendipity led him to start thinking about blockchain and how it could be used as part of the Salesforce family of products.
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He doesn't mean real like not-virtual, he means real like not-animated-at-all, the messy serendipity of its filming style lending it an organic, human quality that not even Pixar's emotional intelligence has been able to match.
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In a weird moment of serendipity, the hook of the track—"You seem to think that you're all alone / And nothing ever could change it all"—seemed to apply to Skepta more than it ever had past or present.
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The temperature hovered just above zero, but that didn't stop Max Greenfield from heading to Serendipity 3, the old-fashioned cafe and general store on East 60th Street known for its indulgent ice cream desserts and frozen hot chocolate.
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It is the threat of economic harm that is enough to prove the case, and deceiving investors about the potential losses they might suffer can establish a scheme to defraud because serendipity — unlike good faith — is not a defense.
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John Arenas, who owns Serendipity Labs, a company that runs coworking spaces and has seen a lot of growth in high-end suburbs, believes corporations, which typically move slower than developers and consumers, may be rushing in too fast.
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It had been written by Mary nearly a century earlier, when she lived as a child in the same apartment, and became the impetus for an article in The New York Times a year ago about serendipity and Christmas.
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The finding, which involved a glorious combination of science and serendipity, brought global attention to this city in England's East Midlands, and when Richard's remains were reburied inside the local Anglican cathedral last year, a steady stream of tourists followed, too.
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DIMON: I THINK IT WAS SERENDIPITY THAT I BOUGHT AT THE BOTTOM AS OPPOSED TO THAT I MADE THE STOCK MARKET GO UP. REMEMBER, THE STOCK MARKET HAS, YOU KNOW, HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PARTICIPANTS MAKING THEIR OWN DECISIONS EVERY DAY.
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Mr. Barnes writes with an easy understanding of the tension between life and art and the strange alchemy of imagination; he also conveys an appreciation of artists' technique, as it has been learned from predecessors and developed through experimentation and serendipity.
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Serendipity Labs, a Rye, New York-based firm, opened its first co-working site in Manhattan last week and plans more than 125 U.S. openings over the next three years after 18 firms signed area of development agreements, the company said.
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"Serendipity often plays a significant role in fundamental scientific research and our discovery here is no exception," John McGeehan, director of the Institute of Biological and Biomedical Sciences in the School of Biological Sciences at Portsmouth, said in a statement Monday.
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But I also liked to have some fun, writing about a giant kite battle that has taken place for centuries in Japan; the physics of the Slinky; the origin of "serendipity"; and why Ohio has the only nonrectangular state flag.
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One of the great things about the early rounds of the United States Open has always been the sense of possibility and serendipity, the ability to dip in and out of whatever is going on wherever you happen to be.
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Here is Merl marveling at the serendipity that sometimes comes with building a puzzle theme: And he was fearless, a key component in being funny and entertaining, even at the risk of making up words: Merl's mind went everywhere and anywhere.
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"We hope current researchers as well as those who possibly have never done research before will take advantage of these tools while they're home, and get lost in the satisfying serendipity of discovery," said Kelly in an e-mail to Hyperallergic.
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He composes haiku on seashells and driftwood about the daily serendipity of the mile-and-a-half-long island, leaving them around the neighborhood for people, like the woman who reads his poems every morning when she walks her dog.
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Serendipity has played a part in this year's bid, with Australian jockey and three-times Cup winner Damien Oliver losing his ride on the race favorite after being suspended for 20 races for "improper riding" during the lead-up Cox Plate.
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And despite the estimated 95 million photos or videos posted daily to the social media platform, it can sometimes seem like one's account has been hijacked by algorithms that mirror the known and expected — and inhibit, rather than produce, serendipity.
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Whether or not they get there, the stakes are sky-high; few, if any, big online retailers have had success replicating the serendipity and rush you get inside a store when you discover the perfect product you didn't know you loved.
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When Ariel explains that she's about to marry Dr. John I tell her I'm "shocked to shit" — not just at the serendipity of a love story coming out of her pain, but because the book gave little indication they were now together.
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From the dingy, labyrinthine basement of the Golden Shopping Mall, with its anarchy of scents, to the vast gallery of stalls at the New World Mall, sleek and seemingly infinite, they are justly beloved as scenes of equal parts chaos and serendipity.
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Hardcore in the era of Geocities homepages was music that had to be discovered through serendipity and mail order, and when I finally heard bands like Earth Crisis and Hatebreed, they sounded like all the good parts of Metallica without the filler.
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That's another app I love, the one for the bike-sharing system, mostly for the serendipity of how it makes you navigate the city in a new way, finding a bike and then trying to figure out where you can drop it off.
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For a league always striving to carve out a bigger stake in the American sports landscape, this moment — two of M.L.S.'s most popular and successful teams meeting on what is unquestionably the league's biggest stage — is an exquisite bit of serendipity.
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And with Jazz Fest serendipity, she brought out Boz Scaggs — who had performed the night before — to join her and Cleary singing a Toussaint song all three have recorded, "What Do You Want the Girl to Do"; they turned it into a hymn.
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Marie's red lips pop against the bluish green water of a swimming pool while Florette's red fingernails tease the back cover of a magazine that — in a gift of photographic serendipity, Lartigue's signature sense of humor, or both — also features a woman with red fingernails.
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It wasn't long before fans started using an emotional shot from the video to lampoon their non-celebrity levels of generosity and celebrate the joy of everyday serendipity: chipotle worker: "your change will be $23" me: "you can keep it" *God's Plan starts playing* pic.twitter.
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Serendipity Labs has negligible lease liability to disclose because of joint ventures and franchising, or licensing structures, that the firm uses, said John Arenas, chief executive of the flex space provider who was U.S. president of Regus when it filed for bankruptcy in 2003.
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This discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word, which, as I have nothing better to tell you, I shall endeavour to explain to you: you will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition.
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"My bots are based in serendipity; the ones that respond to tweets are not trained to respond to any particular content of that tweet, and the joy of interacting with them arises from whatever pattern the human intuits from this randomness," thricedotted wrote to me.
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When I asked Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller if the new building design and giant open campus would make this kind of casual collaboration impossible, he told me that the building itself is designed for just that kind of serendipity.
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Well, maybe it was more about careful planning than serendipity, because a pretty sweet photo that popped up on Reddit shows a fan and Harry Potter himself at a performance of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Old Vic in London.
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I took to Manhattan not only for what White called "the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy" but also for their opposites, the gifts of public life, of crowds, the paradox of anonymous company, and the serendipity of street conversations with strangers.
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Excluding the conveners Teller and Zbiral, all the artists are rooted in or branching out from Bengal, and the six degrees of separation between Teller and the artists was bridged by common friends, acquaintances, shared interests, and general serendipity, rather than the usual curatorial reconnaissance.
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In addition to the new financing from Hall, who also joined the board, Serendipity said on Monday that it's teaming up with the developer to open its first office in the Dallas area, a 29,000-square-foot space at KPMG Plaza at HALL Arts.
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As if to complete the circle of haunted serendipity, Wendy Porter's stepfather was related to one of Nathaniel's descendants, Rick Francis, a prominent member of the Southampton County Historical Society, which owns the sword that Nat Turner had with him when he was captured.
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But as over-the-top as the sundae is, Serendipity outdid itself to snatch away the ice cream's title in 2007 with "The Frrrozen Haute Chocolate," a novelty drink-sundae hybrid that featured 28 types of cocoa and five grams of edible 23-karat gold.
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The singular body of work on view is a far cry from what rapidly became a commercial career focused on advertising and fashion; the stark difference suggests that the great humanism found in Youngsoo's images today is at least in part the product of historical serendipity.
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The friends and filmmakers Gabriel Abrantes, Alexander Carver, Benjamin Crotty and Daniel Schmidt were brought together through serendipity — variously at school, through mutual friends and abroad — but it's their shared aesthetic and sense of humor that have kept this creative quartet in conversation for the past decade.
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The company already has sites in San Francisco and Los Angeles and is looking to partner again with Serendipity Labs in a U.S. city that has still to be announced, said Daqing Mao, chairman and chief executive of the Beijing-based company, in an interview with Reuters.
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In their senior year of high school in 1994, a bit of serendipity connected them to a scout from Capitol Records, who had gone to a show in LA to check out the band Sense Field, but fell in love with the opener, Christie Front Drive.
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Now for the story behind the story... NYT assistant managing editor Sam Dolnick called this "investigative reporter serendipity:" Exactly two years ago, on October 1, 43, "the same NYT crew published a Trump taxes story after an anonymous source sent Susanne Craig 1995 tax records," he tweeted.
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A month earlier, all six kids joined their mom at a special screening of The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind in New York City – and a month before that, her four oldest children attended the N.Y.C. premiere of friend Prune Nourry's documentary Serendipity at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Though there are undoubtedly professionals who share data unconditionally -- as MalwareTech himself did -- yesterday's events make it clear that the efforts of the information security community need greater alignment, and that the world cannot rely on a combination of serendipity and lazy coding to prevent the next attack.
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Like a trip that's entered into a moment of romantic serendipity, where everything goes right and all the colours refract in the most resplendent way possible, it's a creative aesthetic that's bound to lead the British popstar on a road that deserves to be headed toward global stardom.
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There's so much serendipity involved, so I'm talking about things outside of what you look like—which you can't control, unless you spend a lot of money—your talent—which you can't control unless you're born with it—and your moxie—which is just something you need to have.
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Kate says Weinstein, who was head of Miramax studios back then, forced her and the other stars of "Serendipity" to attend a premiere in early October 2001 -- a move she called "insensitive, tone deaf, disrespectful," because the city was still smoking and people were searching for loved ones.
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Somewhere within that darkness though are people like the Twin Peaks deputy chief Tommy "Hawk" Hill, who this week has a Cooper-like moment of serendipity when an Indian-head nickel leads to him finding evidence hidden with a stall door in the men's room at the station.
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Contests serendipity by Aidan Ostapko, one of our winning student-made videos At a moment when dictionaries are becoming social media powerhouses, and lexicographers "word-nerd celebrities," we're pleased to say that nearly 900 teenagers from around the world participated in our latest 15-Second Vocabulary Video Contest.
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Every year has good films, but a combination of factors — studio appetite for risks, the rise of some daring young directors, and the happy serendipity of a lot of people just making a good movie that year — led to one point: a year that was uncommonly good for movies.
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Unlike Amazon, where shoppers tend to go when they have a product search in mind, Instagram's advantage is discovery and the myriad ways a product can magically appear in front of a user, whether through a friend, an ad, an influencer, or the algorithmically generated serendipity of the Explore page.
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However, Pask's immersive and semi-interactive installation, originally created for the groundbreaking Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, was remarkably oracular in terms of modeling a human environment containing conversational machines — now such a quotidian part of life in developed countries that we rarely notice it.
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In addition in Manhattan: The Westin New York at Times Square served a $1,000 bagel with gold flakes in 2017; Serendipity 3 makes not only a $214 grilled cheese with gold but also a $1,000 "Golden Opulence Sundae "; and Industry Kitchen served a $2,000 pizza with gold as a topping.
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In the past, some of the new ecological niches that have been created in cities have been occupied by non-native species through sheer serendipity, by plants or animals like the red-crowned parrots that happened to land in town and know how to take advantage of the niches they found.
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It's been a busy time for the "Art World's New It Boy" (and occasional VICE contributor), who recently exhibited New Flower, a photography series of Ethiopian sex workers, at the Flag Arts Foundation and premiered his film Serendipity, an exploration of love, race, and Western ideas of beauty, at MoMA.
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By the same token, the incredible serendipity of Tom Brady's stunning career as a quarterback, which has led to him having an unprecedented amount of mastery over his team and over the football field, has also led the public to see the team and Brady as essentially one and the same.
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Turns out they first met in New York, pre-Strokes, because Zahedi went to NYU with Albert Hammond Jr. They lost touch for a decade or so, but fate, or rather, the fact that the NY-LA music scenes and studios are so closely entwined, brought them back together. Serendipity.
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"People think Indiana must be a drab place to be," said Mr. Glezman, adding that almost from the outset, serendipity has colored his experience of the old industrial city on the St. Joseph river — a town that, if the pundits have it right, the couple may someday leave behind for Washington.
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It's not just a matter of having somewhere Waymo can test without worrying about state regulations – it's about a place where serendipity can be manufactured, to help ensure its cars are ready for anything, without having to wait for them to encounter those scenarios on real roads when the stakes are highest.
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As a walker, you have a limited role in how much you can control the environment around you, so walking allows a freedom or independence, and an ability to discover things, but it also gives you over to the world around you—to serendipity—to move around in a way that surprises you.
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But here in all its sun-soaked glory it returns as the production base for soulful R&B singer Desta French's latest track "Needing U"—a moment, she says, of serendipity (or at least spooky coincidence), as her track was unknowingly released 24 years to the day after "93 Til' Infinity" hit shelves.
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She spent most of what would have been her college years in France, returned to the United States in 2016 and is the reigning most valuable player of the N.W.S.L. Now, with storybook serendipity, she is back in France, on familiar fields, and helping to lead the favored Americans through the World Cup.
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But regardless of the mechanism, if homosalate and octisalate, or other molecules similar to them, can suppress the progression of the disease in people as effectively as they do in rodents it will be a signal example both of the role of serendipity in science and of the crucial importance of doing proper controls.
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In one of those flashes of Florentine serendipity, certain guests exiting the 032c show for the following presentation — an poetic and inspired collaboration between Jun Takahashi, the Undercover designer, and Takahiro Miyashita of the Soloist label — suddenly found themselves in a corridor opening onto Benozzo Gozzoli's miraculous "Chapel of the Magi," painted around 1459.
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It's easy to imagine the mood among CEOs instead being "we need in-person meetings to encourage those Moments of Serendipity," which you'll notice is the same argument that biased so many big companies against remote work and in favor of huge corporate campuses … an attitude that looks quaint, old-fashioned and outmoded, now.
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But, building on the "Pokemon GO" spirit of "urgency and playfulness," retailers would do well to introduce location and time sensitive discounts "in response to everything from the weather to political or cultural events to engage consumers through some unscheduled serendipity," Cottney said in a press release detailing key European consumer trends for the coming year.
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Given the specific ecommerce use-case here, where Asos' aim is to drive sales of its stock by greasing the clothes discovery pipeline (being as text searches are pretty tedious, especially so on smaller screen devices), you'd expect a bit of wiggle room in the search results — exactly to encourage a bit of serendipity in the shopping experience.
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They get easy to dismiss because some of them are probably not rocket scientists, and a lot of them are literally doing it from their bedroom so they're not breaking bricks, but it's work and it's savvy and there's a combination of application and talent and serendipity and luck that all makes that work if it works for you.
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The lesson in these stories and so many others throughout America's history is evident: Going viral may seem to be something that is purely a result of serendipity, but the fact is having an aptitude for making art that captures the cutting-edge of creativity in expression and improvisation has been a longstanding pattern for Black people in America.
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On Facebook, where every user's experience is a mystery to all others — and where real-world concepts like privacy, obscurity and serendipity have been recreated on the terms of an advertising platform — users understandably imagine that anything could be happening around them: that their peers are being indoctrinated, tricked, sheltered or misled on a host of issues.
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If I'm working on a book I keep the weekends free, if I can, for reading, and I choose what to read more or less randomly — though there's no such thing as reading randomly, really, since one of the gifts of reading is that the satisfactions and the astonishments of serendipity always kick in sooner or later.
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I'm a white woman from the New York suburbs, but a mix of curiosity and serendipity have led me to studying African literature — I'm currently writing my doctoral dissertation about genre and death in fiction from Africa and the diaspora, and I'm particularly interested in novels and short stories that play with readers' expectations of what "African literature" even means.
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But, for a few hours, her life is full of jittery serendipity: she meets a drag queen named Miss Crimson Tide; she sees a dopey Roots cover band; she goes to a club where participants follow instructions that flash on the wall (Kiss, Dance, Share); she ends up hitching a bike ride from a fake monk who's a member of Improv Everywhere.
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She is a daughter of Cynthia Ann Barnes Kolbe and John E. Kolbe of Martinsburg, W.Va. The bride's father retired as a fourth-grade teacher at Windsor Hill Arts Infused Elementary School in North Charleston, S.C. Her mother is the author of "Struggling With Serendipity," (Eliezer Tristan, 2019), a memoir that chronicles the depression and gratitude she and her family experienced in the years following the bride's injury.
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" In the way of all successful art, Smith's book triggered little chains of association that resonated with the other books I was reading at the time — the heart-stopping phrases in Rebecca West's "The Fountain Overflows," the wonderful tribute to the power of fiction to reconcile us to bright particulars in Martha Nussbaum's "Love's Knowledge," that great homage to serendipity in Xavier de Maistre's 18th-century "Voyage Around My Room.
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Twerendipity: Stories of Serendipity on Twitter I enjoyed this Madison Malone Kirchner story about those cases when two Twitter users on opposite sides of a story tweet about it, then find each other, to the delight of all: A woman in a Lyft is talking with her driver about struggling to explain what she wants to a hairdresser when she spots another woman on the street with the exact look she's seeking.
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While Silicon Valley's raison d'être is making platforms, apps and algorithms to create maximum efficiency in life and work (a "friction-free" world, as Bill Gates once put it), when it comes to their own families (and developing their own businesses, too), the new masters of the universe have a different sense of what it takes to learn and innovate — it's a slow, indirect process, meandering not running, allowing for failure and serendipity, even boredom.
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JOE KERNEN: But, you also point out and you say a lot of its luck so I mean it looked like you said 'Wow I'm going to play—' 'I'm going to ride these Treasuries as they go up and the yields fall' -- but that wasn't one of it you need to go somewhere and have more Treasuries and then all of a sudden that was serendipity and the Treasury market just took off after you did that too. Right.
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I once read a silly fairy tale, called the three Princes of Serendip: as their Highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a mule blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right—now do you understand Serendipity?
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"I'm a New Yorker, I've always lived here but one of the reasons that I love New York is that the serendipity is just so thick here, so you can go out on the street and just see things you didn't count on and you don't have to swipe left or right," the actress said recently, referring to dating apps like Tinder and Hinge during a post-screening Q&A in New York for her new film The Meddler, hosted by The MOMS.
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