After the race, he tossed his wet, cloud white hair and said, 'You're a god.' No, Anderson, you're the god.

Design legend Niels Diffrient talks about his life in industrial design . He details his quest to completely rethink the office chair starting from one fundamental data set the human body.

Dear Readers What are your thoughts about why UAE employers invest so little in their employees? Or is it just a myth that they don't? writes John Chilton.

For his first studio album release in decades, musical innovator Thomas Dolby has been composing music in the uniquely inspirational setting of a restored life boat. Here he premieres a gorgeous, evocative song from that album about one night with a legend. He's backed by members of the modern string quartet Ethel.

William Stewart Wallace, in his 1932 book, The Story of Laura Secord A Study in Historical Evidence , concluded her story was mostly myth, and that she played no significant role in the outcome of the Battle of Beaver Dams.

Getting stuck in transition usually kills the momentum for democratic change, and widespread corruption, weak state institutions, and lack of security serve to reinforce a myth of the just autocrat. Vladimir Putin s rule in Russia illustrates this outcome.

In the ancient world there was a lot of respect for unintended consequences, and there was a very healthy sense of caution, reflected in the Tree of Knowledge, in Pandora's Box, and especially in the myth of Prometheus that's been so important in recent metaphors about technology.