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Talking Electoral Chaos With Lawrence Douglas

With global pandemic and social unrest at home complicating an already hotly-debated election season, national and international news outlets have been increasingly turning to Lawrence Douglas, Amherst’s James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, for perspective on the possibility that the 2020 election results will themselves be a matter of dispute.

Catherine Sanderson: How Masks Became The New Normal

Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, head and face coverings were not widely worn in Western countries. Now that social norm is changing, and Scientific American recently went to Catherine Sanderson, Amherst’s Manwell Family Professor of Life Sciences (Psychology), to discuss the dynamic of a new habit becoming an everyday habit.

Making Biryani With Aatish Taseer ’01

For a New York Times series on comfort food, writer and Times contributor Aatish Taseer ’01 shared a family recipe for chicken biryani, a favorite since his days growing up in Delhi.

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In the Summer 2020 issue: meet Alexandre White ’10, assistant professor of sociology and history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, recent medical school graduate Dr. Gaby Mayer ’16, psychology and English major-turned-novelist, Edward A. Farmer ’05, and more.

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