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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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Video meetings on the popular platform don't seem to offer end-to-end encryption as advertised.
What factors explain the gender pay gap?
Amid the panic of the COVID-19 pandemic, are we building the surveillance states of tomorrow?
Facing a shortage of medical resources, doctors in the U.S. may have to make difficult moral decisions over how to allocate care.
Lawrence "Larry" Brilliant, an American epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, warned about the inevitability of a global pandemic in a now-famous 2006 TED Talk.
Washing your hands with soap and water can help protect against the coronavirus. But only if you do it correctly.
Using permanent magnets may help to make nuclear fusion reactors simpler and more affordable.