Possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. Im scott henkel, im the director of wyoming institute for Humanities Research and im so happy to welcome you to tonights think and drink. The topic of which is, pandemics in historical perspective. So, im so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris, who is assistant professor of history and american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institutes steering committee, who will be our moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So, please, welcome. Thank you, scott. Thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate, who i know are in later time zones. So, thank you for sticking with us. And, of course, to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then ill let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with our theme tonight. First we have Michael
Director of the wyoming institute for humanities research. Im excited to welcome you to the topic which is pandemics in historical perspective. Im excited to introduce the history and member of the committee who will be our moderator tonight and introduce our speaker. Please welcome. Thank you, scott, and our panelists who agreed to participate. With usu for sticking and to all of you out there tuning in and some form or another. Going to do a brief introduction and i will let them each talk for a couple minutes how their work intersects with our theme tonight. She is the author of an earlier piece of what the pandemic and teaches about the crisis. Williams we have jacob , an associate professor of history at the college of charleston. He specializes in the history of science, medicine, disease, and is working on a book that examines scientific attitudes and cultural constructions of typhoid fever. Editor of the journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences. Toi will handed ov
Enough for snow but it is snowing in the sierra. This is not far from tahoe in fact near the shores of north lake tahoe. I will leave that for you, and lets talk about back here at home. That is the scene across the bay bridge. It is cold. 40 degrees in santa rosa. Some places are 9 degrees lower than yesterday at this time. I think this morning will feel better than yesterday if you were out and about because of the next map i will show you, which is the winds. Much better, we had a strong an shore flow. We are not experiencing a lot in the way of wind at the moment. But that is not going to last as we get into the afternoon there is a wind advisory, even though the focus is in the mountains. That is where we will talk about the wind advisory for today. There is a small chance for an afternoon shower. I will show you that as well. Dont get your hopes up for too much rain. And the hdline is the warm up. A 4 alarm fire is now contained. Itef0 last night. The fire also destroyed a restau
For parts of the region. Yes. It can be icy. Snow is better than freezing rain and ice you cannot walk. Nuisance for everybody. Yes, that is mainly later tonight for areas in the city but it is cold. Last year december was mild. No the this year. Cold pattern for next week or two heading toward middle of the month, weather fans love this forecast coming up. It gets colder by next week. We will talk about it. Chilly temperatures still below freezing, and it stays pretty quiet, with the cloudy conditions and 0 degrees at the airport. Calm wind, that is good. We dont have harsh wind chills. Reading, allentown, 17 this mount pocono and cranking out snow at ski resorts and ideal snow making conditions. They will get snarl know in here later tonight. The winter wet ther advisory for this afternoon and monday morning for areas north of the city to the poconos. Areas in the advisory, best chance to see some light, snow and freezing rain. There could even be light snow and Ice Accumulations in
Broke through glass door and then went straight in the store and then broke in the jewelry counters. Well, we could learn how white house plans to retaliate against russia for efforts to influence recent president ial election. Debbie reynolds leading laid any hollywood in the 1950 s and 60 as has died of the stroke one day after death of her daughter actress Carrie Fisher. This is debbie. Interview there from 2010, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher joking about their phone calls. Both of their passing just one day apart, so much talent in that one family. I will miss Debbie Reynolds i loved her as mom on will and grace. I love singing in the rain. A true talent. I loved that one time she made a cameo on the golden girls, you have to be a diehard golden girls, to remember that one. She was very blanchesque, she will be missed. We have a lot to talk about on my side of the studio. So lets turn our focus to is what happening with the the weather. Is there a mess unfolding, especially thr