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Published October 26, 2011, 06:00 AM

Eh? Zombie education starts at UMD

This is no time to be ignorant of zombie culture. Your education can start Thursday evening at UMD, when six professors will present an evening zombie symposium.

By: News Tribune staff, Duluth News Tribune

This is no time to be ignorant of zombie culture.

Your education can start Thursday evening at UMD, when six professors will present an evening zombie symposium.

Zombie Fest 2011 — 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday in Bohannon Hall 90 — will

“explore the zombie topic as science, art, psychology, history and ethics.” The knowledge could be worth a lot, but it’s free.

Here’s your lineup:

  • English professor John Schwetman will discuss the zombie as a literary trope tied to the Apocalypse.

  • Psychology professor Scott Carlson will discuss how modern psychiatric

    definitions would apply to zombie-ism.

  • Biology professor John Dahl will discuss diseases such as “the laughing death,” spread by ritualized cannibalism, which led to loss of motor skills and cognitive function.

  • Biology professor Tim Craig will discuss how parasites can make their hosts move like a zombie into predator-infested areas.

  • Philosophy professor David Cole will discuss the ethics of killing zombies.

  • Communication professor Edward Downs will discuss the history of zombie-themed video games and their potential benefits.

    North Shore fish on Twin Cities menu

    For one day — and one day only — the North Shore might not be the best place to eat freshly caught lake herring.

    That day will be Tuesday, when a slate of Twin Cities chefs team up for “A Salute to Lake Superior’s Sustainable Fisheries.” For $10 you can sample dishes by award-winning chefs and find out who won the $1,000 prize for best lake herring entree.

    Entertainment will be provided by North Shore resident Michael Monroe, and the fish is provided by Dockside Fish Market in Grand Marais.

    The salute will be 4-6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the University of Minnesota

    McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis.

    Tickets and info: www.seagrant.umn.edu or (612) 625-6000.

    Your free ride is finished

    We’re guessing this bit of news won’t break many hearts.

    The Duluth Transit Authority is ending its Park Free, Ride Free services at the end of this week. And that’s OK, because it means the Interstate 35 construction season is coming to a close.

    The Minnesota Department of Transportation paid the DTA to get commuters downtown from West Duluth the past two construction seasons so their cars wouldn’t overload Grand Avenue or the I-35 construction zone.

    By Friday they’ll have given about 43,000 free rides this year, about the same as last year. And ridership was up even more than that in the Grand Avenue corridor: They’re guessing another 25,000-30,000 rides were paid for both years by people who just wanted to avoid the construction even though they weren’t in the free-ride zone.

    We welcome your submissions and suggestions. Drop us a line at Eh?, Duluth News Tribune newsroom, 424 W. First St., Duluth, MN 55802, or news@duluthnews.com.

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