Michael Lee's Train of Thought

Zombies are now showing up on Countdown with Keith Olbermann...with a reference to the study of the spread of Zombies as disease, but much of it turned into apartisan plug for the Zombie Survival Guide.

Labels: politics, zombies

I think the interesting thing has been following this story through the media sphere -- spreading from website to website, radio show to radio show.

It is now on NPR:


What we now need is a mathematical model for the spread of a news story like this -- How does something like this go from math paper, to Boing Boing, to the BBC and NPR. How long does it take to "spread"?

Labels: geek, math, zombies