What is your level of preparedness against a Zombie according to the CDC? This episode Pareekh and Adithya discuss Zombies. From a famous game franchise to real zombie ants, and even their choice of weapons for a zombie apocalypse. 

Sources:

CDC Blog:

https://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/

Zombie ants:

Lin, WJ., Lee, YI., Liu, SL. et al. Evaluating the tradeoffs of a generalist parasitoid fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, on different sympatric ant hosts. Sci Rep 10, 6428 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63400-1

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/cordyceps-zombie-fungus-takes-over-ants

Last of us:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us

Leicester study:

https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2017/january/zombie-apocalypse-would-wipe-out-humankind-in-just-100-days-students-calculate

Zombie etymology

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-zombies

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/10/how-america-erased-the-tragic-history-of-the-zombie/412264/

Cotard’s syndrome:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4271387/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion