Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson

Executive Editor, Big Think

A man with short dark hair wearing a dark button-up shirt poses against a plain black background.

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.

Employees from Amazon and Microsoft plan to join the global protest, too.
Two recent polls underscore Americans' shifting attitudes on climate change.
The fast-food company recently agreed to acquire a tech company whose "speech-to-meaning" technology might soon be interpreting customers' orders.
"People are not commodities!" said Assemblyman Rob Bonta.
Scientists still don't fully understand how abstaining from animal products affects the body.
"We can't allow people to get sick," President Donald Trump said from the Oval Office.
Scientists say it might even rain on the exoplanet, dubbed K2-18b.
Is it time media outlets stop publishing the names and photographs of mass shooters?
A new study contradicts some popular wisdom that says sharing your goals is always a bad idea.
One Juul representative told high-school students that Juul products were "99% safer than cigarettes," according to congressional testimony.
Politically incorrect speakers seem less calculated and more "real," according to the authors of a new Berkeley study.
The study is among the first to explore the relationship between emotional abilities, political ideologies, and prejudice.
The move comes amid a surge of vaping-related hospitalizations.
An A.I. named Aristo was able to use its language and logic skills to pass a standardized exam with flying colors.
The Category 5 hurricane was moving at speeds of about 1 mph over the Bahamas on Sunday and Monday.
The effects of deforestation extend farther than previously thought.
Experts are saying it's a "huge step forward for synthetic biology."
The water tower-shaped craft is an early prototype of Starship, which SpaceX hopes will someday send humans to Mars.