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.

A recent study shows that migrant workers in the U.K. are three times less likely to be absent from work than their native counterparts.
A new study suggests that sensitivity to the emotion of disgust affects one's attitudes on immigration.
Sam Harris talks with David Deutsch about how modern people are already living like astronauts.
A study suggests that countries with a high prevalence of parasites are likely to have authoritarian governments.  
A new paper suggests population size and migration explain the sudden bursts of innovation seen 50,000 years ago.
Research suggests that a religious edict from the Catholic Church shaped the evolution of the modern chicken.
A new study says there are two main categories of politically correct people – PC egalitarian and PC authoritarian.