Stephen Johnson
Managing Editor, Big Think
Stephen Johnson is the Managing Editor of Big Think. Formerly a long-time contributor to Big Think, he is a St. Louis-based writer and editor whose work has been featured in U.S. News & World Report, PBS Digital Studios, Eleven Magazine, and The Missourian.
In a #MeToo-inspired rebranding effort, Miss America is ditching its swimsuit competition to focus more on contestants’ personalities.
Hawaii continues its history of progressive climate policy by pledging to become carbon neutral by 2045, a move that would make it the first such state in the country.
On Monday, the Supreme Court set aside the ruling against Jack Phillips, a baker who cited religious beliefs as the reason he refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding in 2012.
President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter on Monday that the Russia investigation is unconstitutional and that he has the right to pardon himself, even though he’s “done nothing wrong!”
A record-breaking 515 contestants competed in the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee where they faced words like Soubresaut, Condottiere, and Amyloid.
An eighth-grader from the Dallas area in the winner of the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee after correctly spelling words like condottiere, ankyloglossia, and jagüey.
Walmart announced Wednesday that it will pay for its 1.4 million employees to attend college, a move that could help the company’s tainted image.
President Donald Trump signed a ‘right-to-try’ bill on Wednesday, but some think the new law will do more harm than good.
The updated recommendations come in the wake of research that shows an alarming rise of colon and rectal cancer among young adults.
Kim Kardashian is meeting with Jared Kushner and President Donald Trump on Wednesday to talk prison reform and the case of Alice Marie Johnson, who’s service life for a nonviolent crime.
After revealing new policies, Starbucks closed more than 8,000 of its stores Tuesday afternoon so some 175,000 employees could undergo racial bias training.
Support for increased gun control in the U.S. is slowly rising, but one group of Americans seems to change their minds faster than others.
A new paper published in the journal American Psychologist shows how NASA is using personality research to learn what makes the best team of astronauts.
A new study echoes a body of prior research showing that men tend to outperform women in a variety of navigational and spatial tasks.
It marks the third such defamation against Jones, but it’s not clear the plaintiffs will have an easy case ahead of them.
N.F.L. team owners signed an agreement on Wednesday that prohibits players from kneeling during the national anthem, but does allow them to stay inside locker rooms during ceremonies.
The changes humans bring to the environment, like pollution or pesticides, is spiking cancer rates in animals, according to a new study.
The FDA has approved the first drug designed to prevent migraines, a move that could help the four million Americans who suffer from at least 15 migraine days per month.
Germany has long harbored varying degrees of anti-Americanism, but a new survey suggests those sentiments have grown particularly strong.
No more secret submarines and moon bases. A new study puts to rest decades-old conspiracy theories and confirms how Adolf Hitler died.
A team of researchers at Cornell University has developed a revolutionary battery architecture that could someday increase storage capacity while cutting charge times to mere seconds.
A new paper estimates the low and high end of total electricity consumption by the Bitcoin network, but not all agree with the methodology.
Elon Musk revealed some new details about the early stages of the Boring Company’srnplans to transform the mass-transit system in Los Angeles.
CFC-11 was banned worldwide in 1987 by the Montreal Protocol, but scientists have found increasing levels of the ozone-depleting chemical in the atmosphere since 2013.
Scientists are investigating whether it’s possible to give modern elephants an ancient boost by reviving woolly mammoth DNA—all to curb climate change.
A set of new studies that used large-scale computer simulations found that life might be more common throughout other universes than previously thought.
A new report from data company Wealth-X shows that the world’s billionaires enjoyed a sharp increase both in number and wealth over the past year.
The Trump administration is quietly bringing an end to NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System, which builds high-resolution maps of the world’s carbon flow.
Millions will watch on Saturday as Prince Harry marries retired American actress Meghan Markle, but a new poll suggests most Brits aren’t interested in the affair.
In a commencement speech at Duke University, Apple CEO Tim Cook praised the “fearlessness” of the #MeToo movement and students in Parkland, Florida.