The living dead are usually portrayed in both film and television as dirty, disgusting corpses with rotten teeth, gross desiccated bodies, sunken eyeballs and patchy, ...
Read More »APHASIA AND THE UNDEAD: CAN ZOMBIES READ?
Obviously no one expects to find a zombie reading the latest New York Times bestseller. Even the most voracious reader will lose their appetite for ...
Read More »GANGRENE, LEPROSY AND ZOMBIE DECAY
Decay theory is perhaps the most popular topic of zombie research. However, the majority of our observations and assumptions come from the study of cadavers, ...
Read More »SCIENTISTS DISCOVER UNDEAD GENES
Scientists have recently discovered that hundreds of genes used in the growth and development of life begin functioning after death. The discovery, and subsequent papers ...
Read More »ZOMBIES SHOULD GLOW IN THE DARK
Known by doctors but not so much by lay-people is the fact that after several days of decomposition, a human body will often glow. In ...
Read More »NEUROSCIENTISTS EXPLAIN THE UNDEAD
Distinguished neuroscientist Timothy Verstynen, professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, visited Google’s Cambridge, MA office on Halloween. He was there to discuss the book ...
Read More »SUPERCOMPUTER TO DO ZOMBIE OUTBREAK SIMS
The National Science Foundation recently funded science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students at Texas Tech University, to help them develop a computer system (supercomputer) ...
Read More »ANIMALS VS. ZOMBIES: WHO WOULD WIN?
National Wildlife Federation naturalist David Mizejewski recently published an article (on BoingBoing) in which he examines a little discussed zombie apocalypse topic. Exactly how would ...
Read More »WHY ZOMBIES DON’T LOOK LIKE SANTA
Since it’s commonly thought that a person’s hair and nails continue to grow after death, shouldn’t all male zombies have long beards? The short answer ...
Read More »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. ...
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