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Forgetfulness, coincidence and a stroke of luck hardly make up a fruitful method of serious research. Or do they? Actually, a number of important medical advances have come about thanks to completely random incidents and the open-mindedness of scientists who were ready to think outside the box.
A postcard. A petri dish. A first-time visit to the new bar. A flower on the sidewalk. A last-minute decision about where to go college.
A beachfront indulgence with history, food and architecture of Galle and beyond
WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE OPINION: Sri Lanka has given us serendipity by Bernadette Kinlaw | June 21, 2021 at 1:53 a.m. Many, many months ago, I wrote about words that entered the language from literature and mythology. I have found a new cache of them, as if by serendipity, and so here we are again. SERENDIPITY Horace Walpole, an 18th-century British writer, brought us serendipity. Serendip was the old name for Sri Lanka, a country in the Indian Ocean. Walpole said he created the word after reading a fairy tale called "The Three Princes of Serendip": "As their highnesses travelled, they were alway...
The movie adaptations don’t capture P. L. Travers’s original character.