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#087 – MORE BRAINSSSS
August 20, 2014

#087 – MORE BRAINSSSS

WHAT CAN A SHAMBLING ZOMBIE TEACH US about the human brain? According to Brad Voytek and Tim Verstynen, quite a lot. Their new book is called Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? and in this episode of MonsterTalk we’ll be talking “Brainssss…”

Bradley Voytek
Tim Verstynen

Further Reading

  • Zombie Apocolypse Science
  • Lisa Feldman Barrett
  • Brad’s blog
  • Tim’s column at Psychology Today

Additional Media

  • TEDx zombie neuroscience video
  • Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
  • Return of the Living Dead
  • Land of the Dead
  • Pontypool
  • The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist’s Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic
  • John Carpenter’s The Thing rather obscure Donald Pleasance Easter-egg

Previous Episodes Referenced

  • Episode 35: The Zombie Autopsies
  • Episode 66: The Zombie Antpocalypse
  • Episode 53: Onan the Jar Burying

Music

  • Monstertalk Theme: Monster by Peach Stealing Monkeys
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