The “Science” of Zombies and the Walking Dead, with Robert Kirkman

What can we learn about anthropology and physiology from zombies? Neil Tyson interviews “The Walking Dead’s” Robert Kirkman, anthropologist Jeffrey Mantz, Harvard prof. Dr. Steve Schlozman, co-host Maeve Higgins, Chuck Nice, Mona Chalabi, and Bill Nye.

If you like zombies and science, here ya go.

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For when the zombies come…or the demogorgons.

Available on Amazon.com.

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After dinner doodle. I tend to loose interest and then end up with a dotted pink table.

And yes, he’s in zombie pose, lost foot and all.

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“Zombie” Worms Mate Inside Whale Bones

In modern pop culture, zombies are everywhere, from TV shows like The Walking Dead to books like World War Z.

But when it comes to the creepy factor, Osedax worms—nicknamed “zombie worms”—beat out even the goriest movies.

A recent study reveals that these faceless, mouthless worms enjoy making sweet, sweet love inside decomposing whale skeletons that have fallen to the bottom of the ocean floor.

Sweet, sweet love mind you.

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Zombie Tarot Cards - The Dieline

Quirk Books asked us to develop a zombie-themed tarot card deck. Rather than take a more typical overly-bloody horror approach, we conceptualized the project as a crazy, campy, late 50’s/early 60’s retro interpretation of a classic tarot deck. As B-Movie fanatics, we wanted to capture the off-beat zaniness those old movies have. We tried to bring a touch of wit and subtlety to the project, as well as a morbid sense of humor.

How fun!

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Physics Students Make Zombie Movie Decay Deep Within the Bowels of CERN

If you ever thought CERN would be a fun place to work you’d only be half right: The scientists who work there might be awesome, but the nuclear research center makes the perfect setting for a zombie apocalypse.

Forthcoming feature film Decay is set entirely at the Large Hadron Collider, with the massive lab serving as backdrop for a dire scenario in which zombies have been created by exposure to the recently discovered Higgs boson (so much for that whole “God Particle” thing). The concept evolved in 2010 after writer/director Luke Thompson, a Ph.D. physics student at the University of Manchester, was exploring the maintenance tunnels of the European Organization for Nuclear Research along with fellow student Hugo Day.

Can’t wait to see this $3K zombie movie set in CERN. Trailer is on the movie site and “supposed” to be available online soon.

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What’s the Big Idea? “People, Zombies, and the Blurry Line Between Them”

Some zombie movies make the line between the living and the dead seem pretty easy to draw. When a family member returns from the grave and tries to eat us, it’s not hard to imagine having an itchy trigger finger. But at the heart of these terrifying texts lays a question that humankind has been asking for centuries: What does it mean to be a person?

Join Brendan Riley, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for the inaugural “What’s the Big Idea?” Honors talk, which brings students together to discuss new ideas, rethink old ones, and share the interdisciplinary spirit of the Honors community at Columbia College Chicago. This semester, our discussion will center on how tales of the dead can provide insight to the living.

This is tonight at 5:30pm. Why is all the cool zombie shit on weeknights? More from Bredan Riley at his blog, good book reviews and the like to boot.

• Online review of the presentation: Lecture highlights reality, legend of zombies.

McFarlane Toys Releases New The Walking Dead Action Figures This Halloween

Like the first series, humans include multiple interchangeable accessories and several points of articulation for limitless possibility and customization. Each zombie figure features unique, gory play action.

The 13 Greatest Zombie Movies Ever Made

Here are the 13 greatest zombie movies of all time. And yes, this includes a lot of different types of zombies — whether they’re bitten by Sumatran rat-monkey, turned undead by a magical elixir or infected by the T-Virus, as long as they rot and move at the same time, they’re still zombies to us. Here they are, in no particular order.

io9 has more zombie articles to geek on.

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Zombie Cupcake Cookbook

It’s never too early to start your epic Halloween party preparations. And we all know that to truly make your party stand out is by crafting epic geeky food. So why not offer deliciously horrific morsels for your guests to munch on?

Just in time for Halloween! And for $10 and change, it’s a gruesomely good price. xD

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Parenting - you’re doing it right.

I <3 the machine gun with the chain strapped to the barrel. If I could dress up like this with M. for Halloween, I totally would. Alas, I don’t think she’d go for it.

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Drive-In Double Feature! Zombie Apocalypse

It is vital that you stay in your homes… Unless you’re venturing out to Cascade Drive-In, Illinois’ largest outdoor cinema, where Filmspotting hosts Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen will be on hand to usher in a Zombie Apocalypse Double Feature! Don’t miss your chance to treat that delicious brain of yours to 2009’s smash hit Zombieland and Edgar Wright’s 2004 genre send-up Shaun of the Dead on the big screen.

Crossing my fingers there’s zombies roaming the parking lot.

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