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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.

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Religion Dispatches

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

A review of Vanessa Ogle’s “Global Transformation of Time”
Michael Schulson
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Religion Dispatches

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

When you get down to it, neuroscience is just brains studying brains. One upshot of this reflexivity is a funny kind of loop: studying the brain tells you about being a self; being a self offers up…
Michael Schulson
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Religion Dispatches

Lying About Our Religion, And Other Problems With Polling

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