Tuesday 18 August 2009

Zombies Beware!

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Some of the good folk at Ottawa and Carleton University have taken the time at the taxpayers’ expense to research whether an attack by zombies on human beings would lead to the collapse of civilisation, though it seems that it would not providing humans act quickly and aggressively

The results of their work are published in a snappily titled book, ‘Infectious Diseases Modelling Research Progress’.

In this, Professor Robert Smith reports, ‘We model a zombie attack using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies. ... We introduce a basic model for zombie infection and illustrate the outcome with numerical solutions.’

I have no idea what practical use this work has, though I am sure there is one, but there is one bit of good news. Professor Neil Ferguson reports that, ‘...if you manage to decapitate a zombie then it's dead forever’.

That’s good to know!
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