Comments on: Re: Your Brains http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/11/01/re-your-brains/ Overthinking It subjects the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:17:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ben http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/11/01/re-your-brains/#comment-3300 Ben Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:45:44 +0000 http://www.overthinkingit.com/?p=2760#comment-3300 I do believe the brain phenomenon was added by The Return of the Living Dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Living_Dead). hat's also where the concept of zombies eating brains as a way of coping with the pain of being dead comes from. As much as it's a funny/ridiculous movie, it clearly abandons the traditional zombie as these zombies can talk, think, etc... but it is where we get the zombies moaning about "BRAAAAAAAIIIIINS". It's always interesting when parody goes on to influence the genre it was meant to add reflection to. I like the idea of the survival of the thickest skull concept, but most zombie purists disregard the brains-as-the-goal concept and consider warm flesh to be the canonical zombie food. I do believe the brain phenomenon was added by The Return of the Living Dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Living_Dead). hat’s also where the concept of zombies eating brains as a way of coping with the pain of being dead comes from. As much as it’s a funny/ridiculous movie, it clearly abandons the traditional zombie as these zombies can talk, think, etc… but it is where we get the zombies moaning about “BRAAAAAAAIIIIINS”. It’s always interesting when parody goes on to influence the genre it was meant to add reflection to. I like the idea of the survival of the thickest skull concept, but most zombie purists disregard the brains-as-the-goal concept and consider warm flesh to be the canonical zombie food.

]]> By: lee http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/11/01/re-your-brains/#comment-2508 lee Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:09:59 +0000 http://www.overthinkingit.com/?p=2760#comment-2508 More prion-related goodness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease#Cultural_references More prion-related goodness:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease#Cultural_references

]]> By: Rob http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/11/01/re-your-brains/#comment-2507 Rob Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:13:04 +0000 http://www.overthinkingit.com/?p=2760#comment-2507 My wife Sue, who runs a lab in Cambridge, MA, has just hired a postdoc to determine whether zombie-like disorders can in fact be attributed to prions. Here's his most recent article: http://www.iamanangelchaser.com/writings/fiction_science/the_case_for_prions.pdf Life is good when you're funded by HHMI. My wife Sue, who runs a lab in Cambridge, MA, has just hired a postdoc to determine whether zombie-like disorders can in fact be attributed to prions. Here’s his most recent article:

http://www.iamanangelchaser.com/writings/fiction_science/the_case_for_prions.pdf

Life is good when you’re funded by HHMI.

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