Sean Jones

Sean Jones

I'm a freelance writer as well as an editor and interviewer at Big Think.  I'm primarily interested in arts & culture and have interviewed writers from Edmund White to R.L. Stine for a variety of national publications.  Previously, I've worked with writers at Hachette Book Group as an editor and the Endeavor Agency as an agent.  I live in Brooklyn, New York.  

During our interview with him, Big Think asked Ted Kennedy to give his counsel: the primary lesson he had learned, the key insight one should take away from his historic […]
A group of Scottish scientists are beginning one of the biggest computer backup projects in history: they’re creating an “accurate to within 3mm” 3D model of Mount Rushmore, so it […]
It may be, “I’m taken.”  The New Scientistreports today on a Journal of Experimental Social Psychologystudy finding that single heterosexual women prefer men who are identified as taken by a […]
When it comes to thinking big, it doesn’t get much bigger than determining the most significant year in human history. The Economist’s MoreIntelligentLife.com has launched a poll asking visitors to […]
Miller-McCune is reporting today on a Personality and Social Psychologystudy indicating that a connection to nature not only has stress-reducing and healing qualities, but that it also makes us kinder […]
Today, Tara-Parker Pope of the New York Times “Well” blog reports on a flurry of studies suggesting that, contrary to popular opinion, running may in fact be good for your […]