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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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A growing body of research suggests COVID-19 can cause serious neurological problems.
Health officials in China reported that a man was infected with bubonic plague, the infectious disease that caused the Black Death.
The proposal calls for the American public to draft two candidates to lead the executive branch: one from the center-left, the other from the center-right.
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Researchers are making progress in the effort to develop safe and practical supernumerary robotic limbs.
The study also estimated that international lockdown efforts prevented more than 500 million infections worldwide.
The videos raise serious legal and moral questions about police crowd-control tactics.
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