1. SERENDIPITY
or
Things Probably not Covered in your Probability Class
JeffreyTzu KwanValino Koh
www.villainous.biz
jtkvkoh@gmail.com
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
2. 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
10. 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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16. AB'UL HASANYAMĪN UD-DĪN KHUSROW (1253–1325 CE)
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Indian musician, scholar and poet
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17. SERINDIP
• Persian name for Sri Lanka
• adopted fromTamil 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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19. serendipity = 緣份
the occurrence and development of events by chance
in a happy or beneficial way.
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20. 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
24. ALEXANDER FLEMING
• Scottish biologist,
pharmacologist and botanist.
• Nobel Prize in Medicine
(1945).
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25. • 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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26. 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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27. 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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31. 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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36. 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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39. 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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41. ANGINA PECTORIS
Commonly 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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42. WHEN IS A
BANANA NOT
A BANANA?
When it’s a picture of a banana.
What were you thinking of?
Tuesday, May 28, 2013