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 new survey highlights the side effects of using Google to self-diagnose.
The vaccine is 97.5% effective in protecting against the Zaire species of Ebola, according to the World Health Organization.
Venice's mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, said the city was "on its knees."
Dinosaurs never left Earth, but they still traveled millions of miles through the Milky Way galaxy.
Should other nations start requiring schools to teach climate science, too?
Can neural networks help scientists discover laws about more complex phenomena, like quantum mechanics?
A new paper claims that scientists might be wildly mistaken about the density — and therefore, the shape — of our universe.