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More Brainssss

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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…”

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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