Fifty years ago, I rode my Kawasaki from Portola Valley onto campus, usually squeaking into class just on time. While much has changed since then, one thing has remained constant: our humanness. We ...

For 16-year-old Santiago Gonzalez-Winthrop, there’s more than one kind of boredom. Sometimes, like on his family’s digital “detox days,” boredom feels like a claustrophobic craving for his smartphone.

Go ahead and celebrate, maybe with a yawn. We’re No. 1, the most boring city in America. That’s according to FinanceBuzz, a personal finance and lifestyle website that recently released a study based ...