Ever feel like right after you learn about something new, you see it all over the place. Like you learn a new word, and then all of a sudden everyone is using that word. Or someone recommends a restaurant that you've never heard of or seen, and the next day, you happen to drive past it. Sometimes I wonder if these are signs of some sort, or if really is all just coincidence. Anyway, what got me thinking about this: I'm reading Emergence by Steven Johnson, and in one chapter he mentions a movie called Powers of Ten, where it starts with a person on a picnic and then zooms all the way out to the end of the known universe, and then all the way back in to the atoms on the person's hand. The coincidence part is that Mai, my dad, and I just watched that movie at the Museum of Science & Industry last week.