Monday, February 24, 2014

The Zombie Ate my Homework: Our week 5 report card of UC Irvine’s Walking Dead online course

Hello, class! This week’s discussion of Society, Science, Survival: Lessons from The Walking Dead, the MOOC run by UC Irvine and Canvas.net, revolves around modeling a zombie outbreak by taking a close look at the disease itself. By modeling a zombie outbreak, we learned just how rapidly the virus can spread and what interventions, such as vaccinations and quarantines, could be used to contain or stop it from spreading and just how effective those methods would be.

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