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.

Cement production currently accounts for 8% of global carbon emissions.
Flies are in no way smart, but they experience time in an almost Matrix-like fashion.
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."
cgi
Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn't mean CGI is always used to good effect.
financial bullshit
"A cheap loan is beyond all new destiny." Does that mean anything to you?
A small percentage of people who consume psychedelics experience strange lingering effects, sometimes years after they took the drug.