I heard from someone I hadn't thought of in a long time, on the very same day. On the day I was wavering about changing jobs, ...

Why is it that life-changing encounters and discoveries seem to happen when we least expect them?They cannot be found when you actively search for them, yet they tumble into your life when you least ...

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Cosmologists tend not to get all that excited about the universe being 74% dark energy and 26% conventional energy and matter (albeit most of the matter is dark and mysterious as well). Instead they ...

Several readers have called into question the idea that the mind is the necessary starting point for a coincidence to occur, as I suggested in this post. Several people have suggested that another ...

WHAT A COINCIDENCE! is what we might say when we run into an old friend we'd just been thinking of. So is it just a chance encounter . . . or is it evidence of something more? Our Cover Story is ...

Can you remember a time in your life when you said to yourself “now that was a lucky coincidence” — like running into someone, or just making that light which would otherwise have made you late for a ...