Before I spoke with Matt Mogk, Founder and Head of the Zombie Research Society, an international organization linking scientists specializing in the field of zombie and undead science, I thought zombies were fictional creatures found in the movies. Well was I wrong about that! As it turns out, there is an inevitable and quickly approaching zombie apocalypse that we all need to be prepared for. If you want to keep you brains, come to Forwell Hall On Tuesday, October 26 at 8 p.m. and Mogk will be here to help.

"My talk, "Zombies, Run!", broadly covers zombie science, survival and pop culture in a straight-forward, lecture format," said Mogk, who I was impressed to find out, takes zombies 100 per cent seriously.

After some reflection, I started to take the zombie thing to heart (and brain) and wondered how Mogk feels about people that don't take the undead seriously.

"In a worst-case scenario, it's estimated that only one per cent of the global population will survive a catastrophic zombie pandemic," said Mogk. "I don't have any problem with people who don't take the undead threat seriously, as long as they don't have any problem with being part of the 99 per cent who will perish."

So I started to wonder, if the zombie apocalypse is coming without a doubt, how long will it take before complete takeover? According to Mogk, "We could be completely taken over by zombies in a matter of days. If the incubation period is long, hundreds of millions of people could be infected with the zombie sickness for years or decades and not even know it. Then one day a trigger causes everyone to get sick at once, die and reanimate. It would be a global plague that starts everywhere all at once, overwhelming us before we even know what happened."

So I say protect yourselves, and check out "Zombies, Run!" — Forwell Hall, October 26, 8 p.m. doors, no cover. It's nothing to moan about!