Uchicago Philosophy Department COVID-19 resources

Here is a lovely piece in the New Yorker by Rachel Cohen of the Creative Writing Program (who also happens to be Matt Boyle's spouse). And here is Rachel's "Frederick Project" on her blog, mentioned in the New Yorker essay.

Agnes Callard writes about the role of the Humanities in the pandemic, here .

Jim Conant pointed me to this useful tutorial on making videos with Panopto, by Dimitry Kondrashov, Senior Lecturer in the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division. This is another version of  the same thing with a somewhat different appearance. Also this (perhaps more permanent link).

With the big increase in use of Zoom there is a new phenomenon, nicknamed "Zoom-bombing," where outsiders get into a Zoom session and post unwanted content -- including pornography and racist slurs, among other things. This can be incredibly disturbing and destroy a meeting. There are a number of articles online about how to prevent this from happening. One good idea seems to be to use a separate meeting ID for each meeting and pair it with a password. Another is to now allow anyone but the host to share their screen. Here is a blog post from Zoom on how to avoid Zoom-bombing. Most of the articles I have seen online about this seem to recycle the same ideas.

We are in danger of losing many of the things most distinctive to our neighborhood. If you have a little money to spare, consider donating to our local independent bookstore (one of the few great academic bookstores left).

Prof. and Dr. Emily Landon, UChicago Medicine epidemiologist, gave a widely acclaimed speech at the announcement of Illinois governor J B Pritzker's "shelter in place" executive order, on May 20. The transcript is also available at the link above. There is also a Q&A with Dr. Landon here .