Stephen Johnson
Managing Editor, Big Think
Stephen Johnson is the Managing Editor of Big Think. Formerly a long-time contributor to Big Think, he is a St. Louis-based writer and editor whose work has been featured in U.S. News & World Report, PBS Digital Studios, Eleven Magazine, and The Missourian.
On Friday, Uber will start publicly trading on the New York Stock Exchange, and drivers want to see some of that money.
Geologists may have spotted evidence of the beginning stages of a subduction zone, a process that drives the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates.
A new experiment aims to remove the psychological pressures of using Instagram.
Alternative meats are finally hitting the mainstream.
Even if the company call pull it off, are Americans ready to trust fully autonomous cars?
The lack of tall, strong oak trees poses something of a problem for the restoration effort.
A space memorial company plans to launch the ashes of “Pikachu,” a well-loved Tabby, into space.
The team caught a glimpse of a process that takes 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.
It marks a major shift in the government’s battle against the opioid crisis.
In most states, LGBTQ Americans have no legal protections against discrimination in the workplace.
“Earth” features about 30 of the biggest names in entertainment.
Digitally recording historical sites could serve as insurance in the case of disaster.
The map shows the movements of seven different wolves over the course of a season.
Might microdosing LSD and psilocybin be a safe, effective way to treat depression and other disorders?
“We inject one tumor and we see all of the other tumors just melt away.”
“Think R2D2,” Walmart wrote in a press release. Others are thinking “layoffs.”
2019 is on track to becoming a record-high year for measles cases in the U.S.
The 2020 presidential candidate said companies like Amazon should “pay their fair share” as automation begins to displace human workers.
The artifact will be opened on Sunday, for the first time in millennia, at an undisclosed location in Egypt.
That’s the strategy behind a program being tested in one Indiana school district.
IF your goal is to persuade people, that is.
A recent study could help improve treatments for PTSD, anxiety and phobias.
Monsanto just lost a major court battle to a man who said he developed cancer after using Roundup.
The discovery could lead to improved treatments for chronic pain.
One group of women still seem to benefit from the popular diet.
On Thursday, New Zealand moved to ban an array of semi-automatic guns and firearms components following a mass shooting that killed 50 people.
The Bill Gates-backed venture promises to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at a rate of under $100 per tonne.
“Here I want to remind all of you of a fact that the U.S. publicly defines outer space as a new battlefield,” a Chinese foreign minister said.
A NASA-led study suggests the stress of spaceflight seems to trigger various types of herpes to reactivate in astronauts.