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« Ohhhh, it's Labor Day | Main | No context picture of the day » Surviving a Zombie Outbreak2 problems - 1) New Jersey has the lowest survival rate Best places to hide during a zombie apocalypse Eric Mack reports at Cnet that a team of researchers at Cornell University, inspired by the book "World War Z" by Max Brooks, have used statistical-mechanics to model how an actual zombie outbreak might unfold and determined the best long-term strategy for surviving the walking dead: Head for the hills. Specifically, you should probably get familiar now with the general location of Glacier National Park so that when it all goes down, you can start heading in that direction. The project started with differential equations to model a fully connected population, then moved on to lattice-based models, and ended with a full US-scale simulation of an outbreak across the continental US. "At their heart, the simulations are akin to modeling chemical reactions taking place between different elements and, in this case, we have four states a person can be in--human," says Alex Alemi, "infected, zombie, or dead zombie--with approximately 300 million people." I'm also a terrible runner. And have bad eyesight. I think i'm pretty much dead in any apocalypse scenario. By min | March 10, 2015, 8:47 AM | Science |