Scientists have discovered only the second example of a meteorite impact that occurred at the same time as massive volcanic activity. The first time such a coincidence was observed, at the ...

When I ask myself why I’ve embarked on a mission to establish Coincidence Studies, the simplest answer is that coincidences are fascinating. They jolt us into an awareness of mysterious connections ...

Science-savvy people know that coincidences are part of life. Yet even the most rational among us sometimes see meaning in odd occurrences. If lightning strikes the steeple and stops the church clock ...

University of Cambridge professor David Spiegelhalter studies coincidences for a living. Now, the San Francisco-based text analytics firm Quid has taken 4,470 of Spiegelhalter’s collected coincidences ...

Did it ever happen that you were thinking of someone and they called you on your phone right then? Or have you ever seen the sun line up so perfectly that it merges with a traffic light? Sometimes, ...

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A recent blog post on Moz by Cyrus Shepard caused quite a stir in the SEO community. This stir was rooted in part over lack of understanding of the difference between correlation and causation, and in ...