Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson

Executive Editor, Big Think

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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.

"History matters, and we now know that hysteresis is part of the answer," wrote the author of a recent study.
The pressure of getting into a top-tier college seems to have influenced the ways teenagers sort themselves into cliques.
"The best is the child in a separate room, where it then remains alone," a bestselling Nazi-era parenting book advised.
A new study has identified specific genes that seem to play an integral part in characterizing the behavior of dog breeds.
The study suggest implicit biases can change significantly over a relatively short timeframe.
It's the first time humans have landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon.