Flying dreams actually often have to do with career aspirations. Flying can symbolize ambition and attaining higher status.

Widespread fear after 9/11 pushed people from (safe) planes to (dangerous) cars. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.

"As kids' shows go, Doctor Who is no picnic..."

Given adequate food, fuel, and gender equality, mass conflict just might disappear. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.

Procrastination works fine—in a world where the future is perfectly predictable. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.

LIFE IS HELL, or so the expression goes, but, for many Americans, the afterlife is looking up.

Bachelorhood And Its Discontents by Christopher Orlet (July 2008) Leibniz never married. He had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married. ï¿

Deeply, deeply disturbing.

My Problem Of Evil by Theodore Dalrymple (July 2008) As someone who has spent much of his life investigating the darker sides of human existence, either as a tourist of civil wars, or as a doctor working among criminals and misfits, I have a weakness for