Science & History
6 Bizarre Ways Architecture Is Designed to Ward Off Ghosts
When designing a building, you have to account for things like terrain, materials, weather, handicapped accessibility and, of course, ghosts.
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- By Christina H
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The 6 Greatest War Heroes Who Got Screwed Out of History
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- By Eric Yosomono
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6 New Weapons That Are Making War Look Like a Cartoon
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- By Danny Vittore
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6 Random Things (Other Than Drugs) That Reduce Pain
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
The 6 Ballsiest Inventors Of All Time
To be a good scientist, it takes intelligence and creativity and years of study. To be a great scientist, you need to be just a little bit crazy.
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- By Jack Mendoza
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5 Famous Scientists Dismissed as Morons in Their Time
There have been brilliant rebels who put their own world-changing ideas on the line, only to end up like Doc Brown in his alternate timeline: humiliated, ridiculed, ignored and/or straight driven to insanity.
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- By Anthony Jurado, Nessa B Wilson
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6 Eerily Specific Inventions Predicted in Science Fiction
Science fiction has had some stunningly accurate premonitions. And we're not talking about broad predictions, here. No, this stuff is impressively accurate.
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- By Colin Murdock
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5 Minor Screw-Ups That Created The Modern World
We continue our crusade to convince the world that all of the most important events in history turned on some kind of ridiculous accident.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Ways Stores Use Science to Trick You Into Buying Crap
A big chunk of the world economy runs on human weakness. Peer pressure, vanity, insecurity, the fact that we just cannot resist the sight of melted cheese. There are some other, much weirder scientific principles that factor into what you buy. You might not know about them, but the people selling you things sure as hell do.
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- By Paul K Pickett
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5 Real MacGyvers Who Won Battles With Improvised Weapons
If you've ever wondered if you could win a war by using reptiles instead of bullets and using the power of rock 'n' roll, then you're in good company.
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- By Phillip Parsons
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6 Statistically Full of S#!t Dangers The Media Loves to Hype
It seems like we decide what we are going to be afraid of by drawing randomly from a hat.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell
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The 5 Most Terrifying Jobs in the History of War
The mind-bogglingly shitty jobs people have gotten stuck with during wartime.
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- By Joshua Sherman
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5 Insane Ways Words Can Control Your Mind
While we tend to think words are just sounds we make to express ideas, science is finding language is more like a fun house mirror, warping what we see in mind-blowing ways.
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- By Sam Cooper, CRACKED Staff
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The Creepy Scientific Explanation Behind Ghost Sightings
Science 1. Ghosts 0. Creepiness 100,000.
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- By Jack Mendoza
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5 Things You Won't Believe Aren't In the Bible: Updated
As a predominantly Christian people, Westerners think they know the Bible pretty well. But not everybody realizes that many of the most iconic features of Christianity were never mentioned by the holy book or the church, but were actually pulled out of the ass of some poet or artist who wanted to make a few bucks out of it.
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- By Bjorn Karhunen, Jacopo della Quercia
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