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.

"Didn't you see me Googling 'baby not moving?'" Gillian Brockell wrote a heartbreaking open letter to big tech companies imploring them to change the ways they target ads to users.
One cardinal is accused of covering up sexual abuse. The other faces criminal charges in Australia.
That's a sharp increase from the 1960s when it took the same share of scientists an average of 35 years to drop out of academia.
The bold technique involves surgically implanting a so-called microneedle patch directly onto the heart.
Jewish people living in nearly all European countries report that anti-Semitism has grown in recent years.
Secretary-General António Guterres said corruption is "an assault on the values of the United Nations."
The National Institutes of Health recently began a $300-million study to examine the effects of screen time on developing brains.