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Stephen Johnson
Executive Editor, Big Think
Stephen Johnson is Executive Editor at Big Think. His writing has appeared in PBS, U.S. News & World Report, and newspapers and magazines across the Midwest. He lives in St. Louis.
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The term “hodl” originated in a drunken post about Bitcoin from 2013, but it’s evolved into a movement in the cryptocurrency community.
It’s the first time the U.S. has fallen off the top 10 list since Bloomberg began its index.
The U.S. government has shut down 18 times in the past four decades, but this most recent instance has proven unique.
Scientists can now virtually reconstruction certain long-dead individuals, without the need for DNA samples from physical remains.
A new law in Germany seeks to close the gender pay gap, but it could ultimately prove counterproductive.
Nigeria, which accounted for more than half of all polio cases in 2012, reported zero new cases of the infectious disease in 2017.
The social media behemoth wants you to use their platform less, not more, than before.