Work gets a terrible press. Pick up the paper on any day and you'll read about how work is killing our marriages, generating stress, depriving children of 'quality time', hollowing out local communities, and depressing us.
Work is becoming too important for it to be of dubious quality. Work is a community, the place where we meet friends and form relationships, a provider of our social as well as our work life.
Work gets a terrible press. Pick up the paper on any day and you'll read about how work is killing our marriages, generating stress, depriving children of 'quality time', hollowing out local communities, and depressing us.
However, before we can do so, all the modern myths about work will have to be exposed: the ones that continue to stereotype work as intrinsically sapping, demeaning, and corrosive. It is time to give work a break.
The giant squid lives in the deepest, coldest parts of the sea. Considered a mythical monster, it has appeared in stories for a long, long time. Now there is convincing evidence that it really exists.
The giant squid lives in the deepest, coldest parts of the sea. Considered a mythical monster, it has appeared in stories for a long, long time. Now there is convincing evidence that it really exists.
People love to fill in mysterious areas of nature with myths of monsters. Early maps had voids marked "Here be Dragons," sasquatches are believed to be prowling the thick forests, and creatures are concealed under every lake.
People love to fill in mysterious areas of nature with myths of monsters. Early maps had voids marked "Here be Dragons," sasquatches are believed to be prowling the thick forests, and creatures are concealed under every lake.
People love to fill in mysterious areas of nature with myths of monsters. Early maps had voids marked "Here be Dragons," sasquatches are believed to be prowling the thick forests, and creatures are concealed under every lake.
People love to fill in mysterious areas of nature with myths of monsters. Early maps had voids marked "Here be Dragons," sasquatches are believed to be prowling the thick forests, and creatures are concealed under every lake.
Black mambas are fast, lethally venomous and, when threatened, highly aggressive. Stories of their deadliness abound, and they have been aggrandized in African myth.
Black mambas are fast, lethally venomous and, when threatened, highly aggressive. Stories of their deadliness abound, and they have been aggrandized in African myth.
The mixing of cells from genetically distinct individuals is not at all uncommon. Named after the fire-breathing Chimera from Greek mythology, naturally occurring chimeras, like mold and coral, are far less ominous.
The mixing of cells from genetically distinct individuals is not at all uncommon. Named after the fire-breathing Chimera from Greek mythology, naturally occurring chimeras, like mold and coral, are far less ominous.
The mixing of cells from genetically distinct individuals is not at all uncommon. Named after the fire-breathing Chimera from Greek mythology, naturally occurring chimeras, like mold and coral, are far less ominous.
Considered a mythical monster of the sea, it is only in the last hundred years that any convincing evidence of its existence has been offered. Sea monsters do exist!
Aokigahara at the base of Mount Fuji has an historic association with demons in Japanese mythology. In 2002 for example, 78 dead bodies were found in the forest.
Also known as the Wandering Town and City of Patagonia, it is a mythical city that has never been found, and at this point is considered a legend more than anything.
Black mambas are fast, lethally venomous and, when threatened, highly aggressive. Stories of their deadliness abound, and they have been aggrandized in African myth.
Contrary to a popular myth, this famous cave system didn’t get its name because of the mammoth fossils found here, but because of its 630 km (390 miles) of tunnels.
Black mambas are fast, lethally venomous and, when threatened, highly aggressive. Stories of their deadliness abound, and they have been become legendary in African myth.