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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Killing Time: Zombie Quiz | |
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| Know thy Enemy | |
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| What does a zombie brain look like? The neurobiology of zombies | |
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| Serve with a Chilled Pinot Gross | |
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| The benefits and hazards of an all-brain-and-human-flesh diet | |
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| Killing Time: Saut�ed Brain with Savoy Cabbage, Finger Pieces, and a Rich Blood Sauce | |
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| Earth Worms Are Easy | |
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| What's really left of a dead body after a few weeks in the ground? A lot or a little? | |
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| Sex and the Single Zombie | |
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| The undead are far from the only organisms that reproduce asexually, but are they the scariest? | |
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| Unsafe at Any Speed | |
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| Why zombies walk (and stalk) before they run | |
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| Killing Time: The Seven-Day Zombie Workout | |
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| What They Don't Teach You in Health Class | |
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| How fast and how far will a zombie infection spread? Is a zombie apocalypse truly possible? The science of the infected | |
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| Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? | |
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| Not only are zombies undead, they are massively unslept. An exploration into the science of sleep | |
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| Bee Afraid, Bee Very Afraid | |
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| Examining real-life parasites that turn their victims into mindless zombies | |
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| Fear and Loathing in Zombietown | |
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| Mass hysteria, post-traumatic stress disorder, and the undead | |
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| Killing Time: Mad Limbs #1 | |
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| War of the Weirds | |
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| How do the undead hunt? How do humans flee? What being attacked by a rabid dog and living life like a slave-making ant can teach us about surviving a zombie outbreak | |
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| Attack of the Mutant Zombies! | |
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| What can we learn from ghouls about mutation and radiation? | |
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| You Gotta Shoot 'em in the Head! | |
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| On ballistics, physics, recoil, zombies, and you | |
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| Killing Time: Mad Limbs #2 | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |