* Serendip - the old Persian name for Sri Lanka
* Serendipity - the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely ('heureux hasard')
* Serendipity - the sagacity of being able to link together apparently innocuous facts to come to a valuable conclusion
* Serendipitous invention - Cornflakes were accidentally discovered in 1894 by W K Kellogg, who found that when cornmeal was left out for too long it went stale and then turned into flakes when attempting to press the mass into sheets as a bread substitute
* Serendipity - the sagacity of being able to link together apparently innocuous facts to come to a valuable conclusion
* Serendipitous invention - Cornflakes were accidentally discovered in 1894 by W K Kellogg, who found that when cornmeal was left out for too long it went stale and then turned into flakes when attempting to press the mass into sheets as a bread substitute
* Serendipity - a series of lectures at Cambridge University in 2008. Check out the amusing and felicitous The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writer's Life podcast from travel writer Simon Winchester on iTunes U > Cambridge University > Highlighted lectures and interviews or click here
