Head west, Zombie Survivors.
That's the crux of a new paper by a group of Cornell researches, which they presented at the American Physical Society's March meeting. Alex Alemi, a Cornell PhD candidate in physics, built a statistical model of what a "realistic" zombie outbreak would be like:
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