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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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Pain makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. What's puzzling is why so many of us choose to seek out painful experiences.
John Templeton Foundation
The American author said he attempted to bring scientific thinking to literary criticism, but received "very little gratitude for this."
Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn't mean CGI is always used to good effect.
A small percentage of people who consume psychedelics experience strange lingering effects, sometimes years after they took the drug.