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.

Dodge Ram has drawn the ire of social media after using audio clips of a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speech in a commercial that ran during Super Bowl LII.
A new technology hopes to provide customers with "human surrogates" who strap screens to their faces so they can interact with the world on customers' behalf. 
Hasbro is releasing a Cheaters Edition Monopoly that encourages players to get ahead in any way they can.
In a landmark study for the tissue engineering community, scientists have successfully grown and reconstructed new ears for children born with a birth defect.
The three behemoth companies are teaming up to disrupt the U.S. health care industry, a move that spooked the markets on the morning of the announcement.
While millions catch a glimpse of a rare lunar event, NASA plans to shut down an orbiter whose purpose is to study the moon.
President Donald Trump veered away from his typical protectionist rhetoric at the World Economic Forum in his remarks on the benefits of global cooperation.
French president Emmanuel Macron recently announced plans to close all of the country's coal-fired power plants two years ahead of schedule.
The term “hodl” originated in a drunken post about Bitcoin from 2013, but it’s evolved into a movement in the cryptocurrency community.
It’s the first time the U.S. has fallen off the top 10 list since Bloomberg began its index.
The U.S. government has shut down 18 times in the past four decades, but this most recent instance has proven unique.
Scientists can now virtually reconstruction certain long-dead individuals, without the need for DNA samples from physical remains.
A new law in Germany seeks to close the gender pay gap, but it could ultimately prove counterproductive.
Nigeria, which accounted for more than half of all polio cases in 2012, reported zero new cases of the infectious disease in 2017. 
The social media behemoth wants you to use their platform less, not more, than before. 
The genius investor hits an optimistic note in a time of dire fiscal predictions.
Poachers trade on a black market estimated to total $40 billion. It’s impossible to stop every poacher, but new technology could bolster the efforts of conservationists by putting a set of eyes in the sky.  
The winner of the Royal Statistical Society’s first “International Statistic of the Year” award provides a shocking insight into the real threats Americans face.
In 2017, conflict was stronger between red and blue than it was between black and white.
Student loan debt is exploding in the U.S. That’s at least how New York Governor Andrew Cuomo characterized it while recently unveiling a set of measures to alleviate the burdens of debt in New York.