Ideas

Normally, correcting disadvantages beyond our control is seen as laudable. So why do people look down on individuals who alter their looks?

Most people say they want their kids to be their own genetic offspring—but such a desire is in conflict with other evolving values around parenting and family.

The impulse to save everything no longer makes sense. It's time to leave the city as a monument to the dangers of global warming—and rethink our relationship to heritage.

It's typical to ask friends for permission to share pictures of them. Yet people don't extend this courtesy to strangers, either because they think nothing of it or they need to go viral at all costs.

Do-everything workplace managers like Asana and Trello promise organizational utopias. But they reveal limitations that date all the way back to the factory floors of the 1900s.

Web search promised to resolve questions. Instead, it brought on a soft apocalypse of truth.

The privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy and skepticism of authority. As it tries to go mainstream, can it escape its roots?

This banal type of office software has a long history of trying to pass itself off as whimsical.