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Google a annoncé à l’occasion du Web2012 le lancement de son service Knoledge Graph. Mais alors quid de la serendipity ??!

Some of the friends we made at the Global Coworking Unconference Conference in Austin have published this great video about how coworking improves the way we work.

There is something wrong with a situation in which some 95% of innovations never find an application. This is the case for academic research, in which the vast majority of inventions end up getting shelved, says Dan Perez, PhD student and CEO of the internet start-up Marblar.com.

About 107 trillion e-mails were sent in 2010, and 3.1 billion e-mail accounts were active worldwide as of last year. And if you aren't ignoring most of them, you are frantically trying to empty your mailbox. Nick Bilton has a better idea: Stop using e-mail.

A new study in the journal Cell Stem Cell suggests that a very common diabetes drug, metformin, may also be useful in the treatment of neurodegenerative disease, like Alzheimer’s.

In this talk from RSA Animate, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways it has shaped human development and society.

Some of man's greatest discoveries have been made entirely by accident. If it weren't for many of these things, life would be very different for us. This is a list of the 10 greatest accidental discoveries.

Serendipity is supposed to be a happy accident so trying to orchestrate it is a bit of an oxymoron. But you or an entire organization can create an environment where serendipity and luck are likely to occur, where you will notice it, and where you can effectively take advantage of it.

Le mot anglais serendipity fut créé par Horace Walpole le 28 janvier 1754 dans une lettre à son ami Horace Mann, envoyé du roi George II à Florence.