If we're really going to ask the question why we suddenly love zombies, the prior question would certainly be why do zombies love us? Or to be more precise, why do they love our brains? It seems that the ripe and juicy eight pounds of gray matter is giving up a few more of its secrets just in time for the Halloween holiday. It seems that the brain's regions concerned with social intelligence light up when one is in the midst of a religious experience. This delicious piece of the brain enlarges that area "devoted to empathy, symbolic communication and emotional regulation" in true believers. This might seem a good thing unless you were a brat growing up. Simon Moore's Law suggests that "69% of people who had been convicted of a violent act by age 34 reported eating candy almost every day as youngsters." If your parents were busy buying you off with candy, you may be an ideal recruit as a crew member in Zombieland. Researchers are showing how it may now be possible to electrically induce that notorious shambling motion we've come to expect from the walking dead. Science has one more little wrinkle to add to his horror story: evolution only moves in one direction. If it turns out that zombies are the future, then there'll be no going back.
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