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Michael Schulson

Michael Schulson is a freelance writer and an associate editor at Religion Dispatches, where he co-produces The Cubit, RD's religion and science portal.

Archive, Science & Technology, The CubitNovember 19, 2015

The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

By Michael Schulson

If Hollywood is any indicator, one of the nation’s great romantic fantasies is to fall…

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(A)theologies, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Michael Schulson, OMFG, Politics/Law, RD Blog, Science & Technology, The CubitNovember 11, 2015

Fact-Checking Ben Carson’s Pyramid-ism Misses the Point

By Michael Schulson

Archaeologists say that the pyramids were used to store dead pharaohs. Ben Carson thinks that…

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Archive, Science & Technology, The CubitOctober 29, 2015

Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

A review of Vanessa Ogle’s “Global Transformation of Time”

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(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, Science & Technology, Stories, The CubitOctober 14, 2015

The Fragility of Our Reality: A Conversation with the Brain Behind PBS Miniseries on Neuroscience

By Michael Schulson

When you get down to it, neuroscience is just brains studying brains. One upshot of…

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Archive, Remapping American Christianities, Science & Technology, The CubitOctober 9, 2015

Lying About Our Religion, And Other Problems With Polling

By Michael Schulson

A review of Robert Wuthnow’s “Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s Faith.”

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(A)theologies, Michael Schulson, OMFG, RD Blog, Remapping American Christianities, Science & Technology, The CubitSeptember 21, 2015

Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling

By Michael Schulson

What we search for may be instructive, but what we turn up may be just as important.

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(A)theologies, Archive, Michael Schulson, Science & Technology, Sexuality/Gender, Stories, The CubitSeptember 9, 2015

Can You Become Un-Autistic?

By Michael Schulson

You could read this as a straightforward narrative of medical recovery. Or you could read…

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Archive, Michael Schulson, Science & Technology, Stories, The CubitSeptember 7, 2015

Is It OK To Use a Cellphone in Church? Pew Surveys the New Etiquette

By Michael Schulson

The Pew Research Center has pubished a new report on cellphone etiquette. If you’ve ever wondered whether…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, Michael Schulson, Remapping American Christianities, StoriesAugust 25, 2015

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

Since its inception in 2006, SoulCycle has done two things really, really well. First of…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Science & Technology, The CubitAugust 5, 2015

HitchBot Meets His Maker: What a Robot’s Murder Tells Us About Ourselves

By Michael Schulson

A friendly robot Is murdered in the City of Brotherly Love.

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