After seeing more than 60 zombie films, Johnathon Williams explains: “If civilization is ever overrun by zombies — which for the purposes of this essay shall be defined as reanimated corpses who feed on the living until they’re dispatched by a gunshot to the head — I know exactly what I will do. I will gather my family and I will take them to Wal-Mart.” (The Morning News)
Day: August 29, 2009
How Bottle-Feeding Mimics Child Loss in Mothers’ Brains
“After a successful birth, opting not to breast-feed may trigger evolved mourning behaviors.” (Scientific American)
Physicist Proposes Solution to Arrow-of-Time Paradox
“Entropy can decrease, according to a new proposal – but the process would destroy any evidence of its existence, and erase any memory an observer might have of it. It sounds like the plot to a weird sci-fi movie, but the idea has recently been suggested by theoretical physicist Lorenzo Maccone, currently a visiting scientist at MIT, in an attempt to solve a longstanding paradox in physics.” (Phys.Org)
In other words, time flows both ‘forwards’ and ‘backwards’ but we can only remember one of those unfoldings?
Unsettling Old Photos of the “Living” Dead
The dearly departed posed as if alive (Mental Floss)