For my final project, I’ve decided to make a video on climate change. It pulls heavily from the work of David Wallace-Wells and is inspired by Carl Bergstrom’s warnings about misinformation. It’s only six minutes long, but packed with what I would...
For my Final Project, I created a video interviewing UChicago students on their perspectives on whether or not humanity is doomed. This video as a Panopto video is linked above and below and should also be embedded as a YouTube video below: ...
For the very first lecture, we discussed the Doomsday Clock. The clock acts as a warning of how close we are to destruction. We analyzed the 2024 announcement of the doomsday clock and how it mentioned that the risk of nuclear extinction has been increased as Russia...
Race Against the Doomsday Clock By Charlie Gravitt, Lawton Bauer, and Miles Brown Download (Windows and Linux only): Windows version Linux Version If those don’t work, try to access it via UChicago box at this link, and see the bottom of this post for how to...
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic is a major disaster faced by the world in the 2020s. According to data from the World Health Organization website, as of the evening of May 3, 2023, there have been a total of 760 million confirmed COVID-19 cases globally, with 6.92...
Click here to view David Traub’s op-ed, titled “A Call to Action: Navigating the Nuclear Precipice in Today’s Geopolitical Landscape.” In the shadow of burgeoning digital advancements, the specter of nuclear threats looms ominously over the...
