Survival in a zombie apocalypse

Tackling the Zombie Apocalypse: Sensemaking in Simulated Disaster Management

In this paper, we report the design of a simulated disaster management exercise that is used to explore the manner in which teams of emergency responders make sense of unfamiliar, dynamic situations. The paper develops a notion of sensemaking that combines semantic (i.e., extracting meaning from cues in the environment) and pragmatic (i.e., recognising opportunities for courses of action). This...

Combating a Zombie Apocalypse Through Subject-Specific Research: A Topic Selection Practice

Retro Roman Zombie Apocalypse : A Real - time Multiplayer Web Application for Saving the Colosseum from the Undead Technical

Apocalypse soon?

When the Lord smote the Philistines with emerods in their secret parts he left it to historians to debate the nature of this lethal affliction. Literally translated, emerods are haemorrhoids, but it is surely unlikely that so hardy a race would have succumbed to an epidemic of piles. Scholarly opinion seems to concur that the emerods were buboes in the groin, one of the agonising manifestations...

APOCALYPSE SOON † by

Based upon a simple vacuum Lagrangian, comprising cosmological and quadratic scalar field terms, a cosmological model is presented whose history is indistinguishable from that of an innocuous low-density cold dark matter (CDM) universe, but whose future is very much shorter. For sensible values of the deceleration parameter (0 < q 0 < 1), its age is greater than 85% of the Hubble time, thus res...