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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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A recent DNA analysis shows that a skeleton found in a famous Viking grace belonged to a female warrior.
A new study shows that most people are surprisingly ambivalent about their decision to break up with their partner — even right before they do it.
We compiled a list of seven of the greatest public speakers of all time, people who forever changed the course of history with their words.
Hans Monderman believed that societies could make roads safer by making drivers more uncertain, and therefore alert.
Scientists have developed an algorithm that reliably detects the signs of Alzheimer’s dementia before its onset.
Hitler is commonly thought to have been an atheist, a claim that's often used in debates about the perils of atheistic belief on a mass scale. But was he?