Michael Schulson

Is Dylann Roof solely to blame for the murder of 9 people in the Emanuel AME church in Charleston? How about our nation’s inadequate gun laws or pervasive racism? Or are we all to blame? Pick just…

In the storerooms of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, in Connecticut, there’s a glass jar that contains a steak. The grayish meat floats in a solution of alcohol and water, unable to rot…

The only thing scarier than a rampaging mega-dinosauar is a rampaging mega-dinosaur that’s also a genetically modified organism. That, at least, seems to be the spirit behind the marketing for…