Hank is tired of zombies in popular culture, and while acknowledging that dead people are scary (especially if they start moving around), he brings us some information on prions - misfolded...
========== Zombies. You'd think we'd be
done with them by now,but there are still zombie
books, zombie comic books,zombie movies, zombie TV
shows, zombie parades.Can we move on to like,
harpies or manticores or something?We can't seem to let zombies go,and there are a bunch
of theories as to why.What makes the most sense
to me is that diseaseremains the final serious
predator of mankind.And dead people are a
pretty serious reminderand traditionally a
serious cause of disease.So yeah, dead people are scary.And they're scarier when
they start moving around.Of course, there's also
the whole brain eating thing.Which leads me to prions (pre-ons),
not prions (pry-ons),which are spelled the same,
but pronounced differently,and are birds, and also
n...
