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SERENDIPITYor
Things Probably not Covered in your Probability Class
Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Kohwww.villainous.biz
[email protected], May 28, 2013
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It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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How did I get here?
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JEFFREYTZU KWAN
VALINO KOHExperience Designer & Interactivity Researcher
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PRADA WOMEN SPRING SUMMER 2008Milan, Italy 2007
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CCTV HEADQUARTERS
Beijing, China2008
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FIGHT WITH FLOWERS
Singapore Design Festival 2009
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TEDX ZÜRICH 2010
http://youtu.be/8W9PMeWjmO4
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OMA: PROGRESSThe Barbican
London, UK 2011
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UNCONVENTIONAL BACKGROUND
• BFA Monumental Art, NL.
•MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments, UK.
• PhD ABD in Integrative Sciences and Engineering, SG.
• Close to 10 years working experience in architecture, advertising, design research and media art.
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serendipity |ˌserənˈdipitē|nounthe occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
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緣份Tuesday, May 28, 2013
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HORACE WALPOLE
4th Earl of Orford(24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797)
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THE THREE PRINCES OF SERENDIP
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HASHT-BIHISHTهشت بهشت
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AB'UL HASAN YAMĪN UD-DĪN KHUSROW (1253–1325 CE) (ابوالحسن یمینالدین خسرو)
Indian musician, scholar and poet
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SERINDIP
• Persian name for Sri Lanka
• adopted from Tamil Seren deevu or from Sanskrit Suvarnadweepa or Golden Island.
• In contrast, some trace the etymology to Simhaladvipa which literally translates to Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island.
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serendipity = 緣份the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
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It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
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How didYOU get here?
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SERENDIPITOUS DISCOVERIES
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ALEXANDER FLEMING
• Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.
•Nobel Prize in Medicine (1945).
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• Petri dish containing Staphylococcus plate culture mistakenly left open.
• Contaminated by blue-green mould.
•Mould released a substance that repressed the growth of bacteria.
• Grew a pure culture and discovered it was a Penicillium mould, now known to be Penicillium notatum.
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AUGUST KEKULÉ
• From the 1850s until his death, Kekule was one of the most prominent chemists in Europe, especially in theoretical chemistry.
• He was the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure.
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OUROBOROS
• Ancient symbol of a serpent or dragon eating its own tail.
• Similar to 鳳凰.
• Used in Alchemy symbolizing the circular nature of an alchemists’ work.
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BENZENE
• First chemical to be described using modern chemical structure.
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OUROBOROS ==> BENZENE
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PERCY SPENCER
• American engineer and inventor.
• Had no formal education.
• Joined the US Navy as a radio operator and became an expert on radio technology.
• Taught himself trigonometry, calculus, chemistry, physics, and metallurgy, among other subjects.
• While working at Raytheon he was testing a magnetron for radar sets.
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NOT MEGATRON!
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MAGNETRON!used in early radio technology
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IT’S CHOCOLATE. SERIOUSLY.
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MICROWAVE
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
• Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy.
•Was looking for a new route across the Atlantic Ocean to India when he accidentally ran into...
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NORTH AMERICA
Where I’m from!
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HEDY LAMARR
• Austro-American actress and mathematician, celebrated for her great beauty, who was a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age."
• Mathematically talented, Lamarr and composer George Antheil invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping.
• Discovered during her experiments with automated control of musical instruments.
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HEDY LAMARRSpread-spectrum communication technology is still used in
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, CDMA, etc.
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ANGINA PECTORISCommonly known as angina – is chest pain due to ischemia of the heart muscle, generally due to obstruction or spasm of the coronary arteries.
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WHEN IS A BANANA NOT
A BANANA?When it’s a picture of a banana.
What were you thinking of?
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SILDENAFIL CITRATE
Also known as Viagra
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OTHER CHANCE DISCOVERIES
• Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Popsicles
• Brandy
• Teflon
• Potato Chips
• LSD
• Pap Smear
• Insulin
• Allergies
• X-Rays
• Vulcanized Rubber
• Pacemaker
• Radioactivity
• Plastic
• Coke
• ...and more!
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How do I make serendipity?
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Reverse SerendipityBy (Our Name Here) Productions
Campus MovieFest 2013: Rutgers University http://youtu.be/78fiFPrrfe0
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Reverse SerendipityBy (Our Name Here) Productions
Campus MovieFest 2013: Rutgers University http://youtu.be/78fiFPrrfe0
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Do good things.
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Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Kohwww.villainous.biz
[email protected], May 28, 2013