No one knows for sure what the first weapon actually was, but we can assume that it was probably a club: Basically a big heavy stick that somebody used to whack at […]
Swinging for the fences: Bats as weapons
Chris Post
I'm a journalist and college professor living in a small Missouri town with my wife and seven of our children.
Norman Reedus talks Daryl Dixon and filming The Walking Dead
Norman Reedus, the actor behind the fan-favorite character Daryl Dixon in AMC’s hit show The Walking Dead, recently shared a link to a YouTube video posted by LifestyleMirror. In the clip, Reedus discusses […]
Zombie attacks: The silent bite
Film zombies are portrayed as relentless hunters stalking and killing without end. But would zombies really be like wolves — pack hunting to bring down prey? Perhaps, but if some ideals about […]
Archery and the art of zombie hunting
Robin Hood. Legolas. Rambo. All three have proven that (in fiction at least) you don’t need a firearm to strike down an enemy at a distance. But what about surviving in the […]
Canadians ready for zombie apocalypse
Those familiar with the Max Brooks novel “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” might remember the passage where American refugees flee northward to Canada in hopes that the […]
Don’t stick your neck out
Operating under the assumption that a zombie isn’t going to possess superhuman strength, body armor probably won’t be necessary to protect yourself from them. That doesn’t mean that certain protective equipment won’t […]
Zombies at a sci-fi convention? Why not?
People expect certain things at a science fiction convention. Star Trek, Dr. Who, cosplay, lectures by published authors. OSFest, the annual Omaha sci-fi convention had those things, but the organizers added something […]
Novelist writes her own nightmares
Stefanie Oberhansley doesn’t look like zombie novelist In fact, she was in high school before she could even bring herself to watch a horror film “Up until I was about l6, I […]
Will asteroid 2012DA14 create zombies?
If you haven’t been following the news, an asteroid the size of an Olympic swimming pool is going to come close to the Earth this week. How close? Somewhere in the neighborhood […]
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