Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

Friday, 6 March 2015

Zombie Apocalypse Simulator - Don't Stay In The City!

Cornell University researchers have created a Zombie Apocalypse simulator! They basically concluded what everybody thought really - get out of the cities and head to the Northern Rockies.

It is based in the SIR model as people are either:
(S) = Susceptible,
(I) = Infected or
(R) = Immune.

Although it is pretty obvious that nobody is immune to a zombie apocalypse so there are no (R)'s within this model. They state that there are no viruses that would cause the dead to rise or contribute to a zombie apocalypse (debatable?). However, if there were they believe things would get ridiculously bad, ridiculously fast!

Read more about it here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/04/zombie-apocalypse-research-cornell_n_6797952.html


Tuesday, 27 January 2015

The Science Of Zombies: Neuroscientists Reveal The Anatomy Of The Undead's Brain

The DailyMail has posted an article and it is apparent that Neuroscientists have managed to figure out the anatomy of a zombie brain - interesting.

They write that 'the neuroscientists have come up with two subtypes of the syndrome – CDHD-1, which affects ‘slow’ zombies with uncoordinated movements and CDHD-2, which is typical of ‘fast’ zombies that have no problem chasing humans in films.' 

So effectively a CDHD-1 zombie is your average Joe from The Walking Dead, and your CDHD-2 zombie are those crap-yourself fast zombies from 28 Weeks Later - sod that. 


It's actually a brilliant article for zombie enthusiasts - they have so much information like causes, tips, how science can help and so on.


They reference many films and describe what causes zombiism in each film: 



'The zombie apocalypse occurs in many different forms in zombie films. 
Space radiation – Night of the living dead
Chemical weapons – Return of the living dead
Biological infection – 28 days later, Resident evil
Genetic manipulation – Resident evil
Parasites – Zombie town
Magic – White zombie
Supernatural possession – Evil dead
Depression - Warm bodies'

That's one of my favourite parts of the article, anyway the link is below, I don't want to ruin it as it is a great read.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2865792/The-science-ZOMBIES-Neuroscientists-reveal-anatomy-undead-s-brain-avoid-dinner.html#ixzz3Q46Yek68 





Cameron Romero Announces 'Night Of The Living Dead' Prequel!!

That's right! Cameron Romero - George Romero's son - is writing and directing a prequel to Night Of The Living Dead! The ground breaking legacy now has a prequel in the mix.

It's going to be titled 'Origins' and I am so excited for this, especially as it's Romero's son.

Read more about it here: http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/87191/cameron-romeros-night-living-dead-prequel-origins-headed-way/

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Monday, 13 October 2014

Britain Is Actually Prepared For A Zombie Apocalypse

Who would have thought it, reserved, 'we don't think zombies are real, that's preposterous', little old Britain is prepared for a possible attack by zombies.

Let's be honest here, we do have a pretty good advantage as it is. Geographically we couldn't really have a better location, we are an island and islands are surrounded by water, obviously, this is a huge advantage for us, we close the borders, close the airports, no one comes in, if you go out, you can't come back and we are pretty much sorted, the virus cannot spread to a country if its borders are closed... Unless we have zombies that can walk under water, or swim. Then we are sort of screwed.

We do have big, hefty, strong buildings which a zombie most definitely could not get into. Take Greenwich University for example. Big, strong buildings, surrounded by gates and fences and the Thames at one side for an escape route, or trade route via water. Sorted. Although, Greenwich is a densely populated area, so that would be a bit risky.

We do have countryside though. Miles and miles of grass and fields and forest. If you're a farmer, you have a chance - you need big fences though. Our land is very fertile too, we are able to grow crops to harvest, potatoes especially, as potatoes are the vegetables that keep people alive - it's true, we found that out in the 1500s when Columbus 'discovered' the New World. But unfortunately, our land isn't as good as the Americas, so they sort of one upped us there.

Another thing, England is full of underground bunkers from World War 1 and World War 2. We even have bunkers from when we feared a nuclear attack. They're probably haunted, but I guess that would be least of our worries.

Britain has an advance knowledge of filtration, plumbing and sanitation systems. I mean, we practically invented them. This would ensure clean water for everybody. Hooray.

We have medicine, raid the right places and you're in for a treat. There's a pharmacy on every corner, shame it's not the same for hospitals though.

The Minsitry Of Defence stated that 'in the event of an apocalyptic incident (eg zombies), any plans to rebuild and return England to its pre-attack glory would be led by the Cabinet a Office, and thus, any pre-planning activity would also taken place there.' And that their role would be to provide military support to civilians.

Read about it and Bristols plans here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9721072/Britain-is-well-prepared-to-fight-apocalyptic-zombie-invasion.html

Zombieland 2 Announced

Finally! It's been 5 years since we saw the gang traipse around America trying to find safety and a new home in post-apocalyptic America. To me, this is the Zombie genre's funniest zombie film so I'm well chuffed that they've announced a second, why wouldn't you be?

Hopefully they get the whole cast back, that would be cool.
A Bill Murray cameo is a must.

I'm looking forward to this.

Read more here: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Zombieland-2-Actually-Happening-Here-Latest-67465.html

Saturday, 27 September 2014

Pentagon Has 'Zombie Survival Plan'

It's interesting to read about how many official zombie survival plans there actually are, even if they are actually referring to natural disasters, the survival of a zombie apocalypse has actually been considered.

It turns out that if you live in the U.S. you're in a nation that has an official plan that does specifically refer to zombies and has stated a disclaimer within the plan that 'this plan was not actually designed as a joke'.

Referred to as CONOP 8888 the plan insists to 'preserve the sanctity of human life' amongst all of the 'non-human zombies'. Many people claim that this is a waste of tax payers money blah blah blah, but come on now, a 'zombie' apocalypse is actually possibly given the right 'ingredients' per se. They are just looking out for our well being, a plague might just irrupt and totally crush every thing that we see as normal today, then who would be complaining that the government should have had a plan?

You can read the PDF too which you'll find in the article below.

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2629064/The-Pentagons-guide-surviving-zombie-apocalypse-US-military-outlines-plans-deal-undead-chickens-space-invaders-VEGETARIANS.html


Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse (CDC)

I know this was 2011, but this blog is only a few months old. Following the recent Kansas Zombie Preparedness, it triggered my memory into remembering Preparedness 101. Just because it's 2011, doesn't mean it isn't still relevant.

The Centres For Disease Control And Prevention released a blog in order to guide us and help us be prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse. Similarly to Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas, the message is more of being prepared for any natural disaster, although a zombie apocalypse could just be one of them.

The thing is, people are just so much more interested in zombies than say, hurricanes. Because zombies are indeed popular culture, the CDC and alike feel they will engage many more readers and people in general through the use of zombies rather than pumping out the same old information people have heard before about hurricanes, tornados and so forth.

It was released due to people being worried about the possibility of a zombie type apocalypse because of the radiation fears in Japan. Now there's another idea, radiation fuelling the zombie apocalypse.

Read more here: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/05/18/cdc-warns-public-prepare-zombie-apocalypse/

CDC Blog: http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/

CDC Novella on Preparedness 101: http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombies_novella.htm


Kansas Prepares For The Zombie Apocalypse

The Governor of Kansas, Sam Brownback, recently declared that October shall now be 'Zombie Preparedness Month' stating that if anyone is prepared for a zombie apocalypse, they are pretty much prepared for any natural disaster that is yet to come.

Quite a few authority figures have mentioned zombie apocalypse and the need to be prepared. What on earth is going on that we don't know about?

It wouldn't surprise me that there are underground laboratories mixing up viruses that they shouldn't be which would could possible create a zombie like virus. The government will hide anything and everything from us, is this one of them? *Conspiracy Theory*

Maybe we should buck up and take their advice, start stock piling food, water, clothes and weapons...and any other essentials that we need.

Read more:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11121755/How-Kansas-prepares-for-the-Zombie-apocalypse.html

Friday, 26 September 2014

Human Flesh Burgers At A Pop Up Terminus In London!

Inspired by the Season Finale of The Walking Dead's last season, Season 4, a London chef has decided to created a 'burger that tastes like human flesh'.

Chef James Thomlinson referred to the testimonials of cannibals on what they thought human flesh tastes like. He will be mixing 'veal, chicken livers, bone marrow and pork' to create the taste of human meat. He will be creating a scecret, pop up Terminus somewhere in East London and if people want to go and grab a free flesh burger they will have to follow the Chef on Twitter and use #terminustavern to find out where the destination is along the way. This will be happening next Tuesday, the 30th of September. Unfortunately I will be having a long day of University lectures in South London. 

I guess I am in two minds about this, one, I think if you actually want to experience what human flesh tastes like you must have something strange going on inside your head. But on the other hand it's quite a quirky, original idea that gives zombie lovers the opportunity to have a close-to-apocalypse experience. I would like to check it out but I would feel rather weird about tasting the burger, I think I'd need some convincing.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2766727/Do-want-fr-eyes-Chef-creates-burgers-taste-like-human-FLESH-using-hand-accounts-cannibalism-flavour-close-possible.html#ixzz3EQHaCchh 



Ebola Victims 'Rise From The Dead' ?!

Okay so, anyone who has a television or access to the internet should know about the outbreak of Ebola amongst African countries. It has recently been reported that two victims of the virus have 'risen from the dead' just before they were about to be taken to burial. Both these cases were women, but they were however, in different villages.

Being a zombie maniac I'm surely not the only one who automatically thought of zombies when I saw this news article, right?

No, they are not cannibalistic and rising from the dead to eat the living, but this whole process of dying and coming back, is halfway defining a zombie.

As a zombie fan I of course have my theory of how the zombie apocalypse would happen, and of course, my zombie survival plan. My theory consistes of a virus, like Ebola, being spread. More like a mutated version of Ebola, along with rabies possibly and of course airborne too. My theory is that some idiot in a lab tested the wrong thing, mixed the wrong viruses and hey presto, created a super virus which causes a major plague, if you wish, and 'kills off' the majority of the population. Only the living have to defend themselves from these zombie like 'people' - who are zombie like purely because of the culmination of viruses in their system and the symptoms of these viruses causing havoc to no end. That's just my theory in short.

The news article is from a trusted, (as trusting as a newspaper can get) source. It came from one of the UK's top, respected newspapers - The Mirror.

Read the article here: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ebola-victims-african-village-rise-4320414

In all fairness, I'm quite worried about how this is all going to pan out.