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 drawing using the loci method depicting a tunnel with variably colored pillars.
Modern memory athletes use this ancient technique to memorize thousands of digits of pi.
A 2020 study revived a longstanding controversy over Christopher Columbus' claims of marauding cannibals in the Caribbean.
The cost of seeing yourself as a thief is pretty steep, the results of a 2019 study suggest.
Of the world's 300 honey varieties, none is stranger and more dangerous than mad honey.
He couldn't identify the numbers 2 through 9. But strangely, he could still see ones and zeros.