Something I always find interesting when I learn something new, hear about a particular concept or idea, or start a different activity, is the feeling  that it seems to pop up everywhere, across a variety of settings.  The Pacific Standard described it well: “your friend told you about that obscure blue-grass-electro-punk band yesterday morning.  That afternoon, you ran across one of their albums at a garage sale.  Wait a minute -that’s them in that Doritos commercial, too!  Coincidence… or conspiracy?  More likely, you’re experiencing ‘frequency illusion,’ somewhat better known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.”  And although research has shown that this occurs due to the psychological processes of selective attention and…