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.

"Slight," applied to large populations, could still mean thousands of more boys.
A new study shows promise for epigenetic treatments for humans suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
A new study shows how machine-learning methods could examine your friends' past tweets to accurately predict your future behavior online.
In his final years, Martin Luther King, Jr. become increasingly focused on the problem of poverty in America.
It could put the American fossil fuel industry on a clear path to extinction.
A growing body of research shows promising signs that the keto diet might be able to improve mental health.