GILA MONSTERS FOR ZOMBIE SURVIVAL
LiveScience reports that a substance in the saliva of the Gila monster called exendin-4 can reduce food cravings. The naturally occurring compound makes eating sweet and fatty foods less rewarding to the brain. Simply by ingesting exendin-4 rats lost their cravings for both food and chocolate. The new discovery may be a breakthrough in weight-loss science, as researcher Suzanne Dickson …
WORST HOUSE FOR ZOMBIE SURVIVAL?
According to Demographia.com, Tokyo is the largest urban center in the world with upwards of 37 million residents. In a zombie outbreak a top priority should be to stay away from other people, making Tokyo a less-than-ideal location. Compounding the problem, Tokyo architect Sou Fujimoto has designed what might be the worst house for zombie survival ever built anywhere. It’s …
SHORT ZOMBIE SATIRE: A DEAD ISSUE
Chicago based indie filmmaker Alex Reynolds produced this short video satire promoting zombie awareness in a world where the zombie apocalypse isn’t such a big deal. Will the coming zombie plague be this easy to overcome? Hopefully so, but probably not.
ELEMENTS OF ZOMBIE DECAY (Part 1)
Written by 1LT Chris Post One of the greatest determiners in how long the coming zombie plague will last is the lifespan of zombies themselves. In theory, the length of any outbreak will depend on how long individual zombies are capable of moving about and spreading their infection to new hosts. Because zombies occupy a limited, rotting corpse, the real …
ZOMBIE GRAPHIC NOVEL GIVEAWAY
We’re almost half way through Zombie Awareness Month. We’re doing a contest every weekday this month to mark the occasion. Today only win the first five issues of an upcoming graphic novel called ZDC: Zombie Disease Control. Written by ZRS Head Matt Mogk and illustrated by Chad Lewis, the story follows the Zombie Research Society Advisory Board as it secretly …
TODAY WIN A BLEEDING ZOMBIE TARGET
THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED! The winner is: Mitch Parker Molly, please email us at mogk@zrs.me to collect your prize. Thanks to everyone else who entered. May 10, 2012 and we’re already 1/3 of the way through Zombie Awareness Month. We’re doing a contest every day this month to mark the occasion. Today only win your very own bleeding zombie target …
WIN WOODY’S ZOMBIELAND HAT!
THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED! The winner is: Molly Hefron Molly, please email us at mogk@zrs.me to collect your prize. Thanks to everyone else who entered. Day #9 of Zombie Awareness Month, and we’re still doing a contest every day in May to mark the occasion. Today only win an authentic replica of the hat that Woody Harrelson made famous with …
AP REPORT GETS SURVIVAL DEAD WRONG
A recent Associated Press report about a woman stranded in the wilderness with a broken leg for four days highlights a gross lack of survival knowledge, and you don’t even have to go past the article’s headline to see the glaring mistake. It reads: “HIKER SURVIVES 4 DAYS IN UTAH DESERT WITHOUT FOOD” Without food? Really? We’ve got a newsflash …
ZOMBIE CASE STUDY SHORT FILM
Two Aussies made this zombie short film on their iPhones, and it’s not half bad. Check it out below. What do you think? via Blog of the Living Dead
AX HEAD ZOMBIE by Chris Bodily
If you can hit a zombie square in the head with an ax and it still keeps coming, we’ve got bigger problems than we even think! Either way, what’s not to love about this sketch by artist Chris Bodily?