If you're a GT student and wondering: should you wear a mask the entire time indoors, in lab, and in class? Answer: yes Estimated 83% chance 1+ infected in group of 25. covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu

Secret File No 3: Funeral In Berlin, by Len Deighton. Cape, 1964. Cover by Raymond Hawkey. Still my favourite holiday book.

Our Writing and Communication Program is now accepting applications for its 2022 cohort of The Brittain Fellows. Learn more about the Brittain Fellowship and apply here: b.gatech.edu/3rLGhab #higheredjobs #academicjobs

A comic book burning from 1954. A public fear of comic books resulted in the Comics Code Authority, a reactionary measure taken to censor comic books and deem them appropriate for children. The woman on the left is seen holding issues of Tales from the Crypt and Weird Science.

Meet Julia Tigner, one of our esteemed faculty members and Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellows! Learn about Julia, her research, and what she might have been instead of a professor (hint: 🌧 🌫🌪🌡) in this week's faculty #spotlight: b.gatech.edu/3I4csaY

Hear from environmental humanist and ACLS Fellow @Kent_Linthicum on why we need climate change media (i.e.📚🎥📺🎙️🎮) to fight #climatechange. Linthicum shares the importance of these media and his personal recommendations for #EarthDay2022🌍🌳♻️: b.gatech.edu/3voO0wF

ON THIS DAY, 9 May 1942, just 2 days before GO DOWN, MOSES came out as a novel, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST published "The Bear," with 2 illustrations by Edward Shenton. The other shows the unnamed "boy" and Sam Fathers finding the bear's two-toed footprint. faulkner.drupal.shanti.virginia.edu/node/16319?can…

Old Hollywood bloopers are a thing of beauty.

New digs

In the flesh in December Stanford Press sup.org/books/title/?i…

👑

King Ralph, 1991.

Trick or treat 🎃 Art by Reed Crandall

As a UC alum and former member of the UAW, I'm so proud of my fellow academic workers in California, who are striking for a living wage. Higher education in America will be saved by UNIONS. @uaw2865 @FairUCNow

EC Comics @EdPiskor Here's a 5 second animated loop I made for Wally Wood's cover of WEIRD SCIENCE #9.