{"id":27241,"date":"2011-10-29T13:34:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27241"},"modified":"2011-10-29T13:34:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T17:34:05","slug":"were-all-zombies-on-this-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27241","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re All Zombies on This Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are zombies real? Maybe&#8230; but they CAN teach us about ourselves.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/2010\/10\/what-zombies-can-teach-us-about-brains.html?utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_medium=fanpage&amp;utm_campaign=pbs\" target=\"_blank\">What Zombies Can Teach Us About Braaain Science<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Steven Schlozman, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a lecturer at the Harvard School of Education, uses the undead to teach the living about the brain. In fact, he says, talking about zombie brains and folklore, like those in Romero&#8217;s classic, can give people a safe fictional context to discuss serious issues in medicine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You watch Romero zombies and you can see there is something not right about them, and you can pinpoint what&#8217;s wrong with them,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;You can postulate what&#8217;s going on biologically.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, just to be safe, tell the next zombie you see &#8211; Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe you can do the same thing with some of the OWS types and they won&#8217;t eat your brains. Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>H\/T John Gresham on FB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are zombies real? Maybe&#8230; but they CAN teach us about ourselves. What Zombies Can Teach Us &hellip; <a title=\"We&#8217;re All Zombies on This Bus\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27241\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We&#8217;re All Zombies on This Bus<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,87,88,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-general-whackos","category-health-care-debate","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}