Enjoy Some Weird Science Research For The Holidays

Friday, December 18, 2015 - 11:52 in Health & Medicine

Photo by Michael Hicks via Flickr, CC by 2.0 Presents! The British Medical Journal is at it again with its annual Christmas Issue, full of offbeat studies and literature reviews. The journal releases this little academic present each year. Here are a few of our favorites from the 2015 edition released this week: Zombies The Walking Dead has inspired a bit of zombie fever (and we seem to have caught it too). So, it only makes sense to have a comprehensive look at the pathology and epidemiology of zombie infections. Tara C. Smith from Kent State University surveys the rise of zombie outbeaks from the 1500s, up to the more recent incidents of "rage zombies." Her background in epidemiology allows Smith to provide a compellingly detailed analysis for zombie nerds everywhere, though more research is...

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