The popular fantasy of “others” coming for you and your stuff The concept of a reanimated human corpse—a zombie—is said to have originated in Haitian folklore. Even today, especially in rural Haiti, grieving families sometimes believe that a mentally ill stranger wandering their village might be their deceased loved one come back to life. “The […]
Popular theme helps spread the message and the knowledge It was inevitable. The wildly contagious television show The Walking Dead has spawned educational, zombie-themed disaster preparedness programs. The multimedia guides, which include interactive elements come from the venerable Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquartered in Atlanta. What started as a tongue-in-cheek campaign to […]
As debate heats up again over gun ownership, questions about the value of a human life Perhaps more than at any other time in recent memory, opinions tend to run to extremes in the United States. They also seem to run deeper, which is to say that many vociferous Americans present as less philosophically flexible. […]