Science & History

5 Mind-Blowing Scientific Answers to Life's 'Big Questions'

At some point in your life you have, at some completely random moment, stopped what you were doing and just thought, 'Man, what am I doing here? How does any of this even exist? What is reality, anyway?' Then you usually forget about it and go back to playing browser games until lunchtime rolls around. But those big questions, starting with the nat

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By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz

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August 16, 2011

The 6 Deadliest Animals Too Adorable to Run Away From

Mother Nature's favorite gag is giving vicious predators the bodies of harmless fuzzballs. This is a continuation of our duty to make sure you don't judge an animal's lethality by its appearance.

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By Tom Hohle

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August 12, 2011

6 Mind-Blowing Ways Genetic Engineering Might Save Your Life

Genetic engineering scares a lot of people, partly because we love making sci-fi movies and video games starring walking humanoid horrors that resulted from experiments gone wrong. And, while the idea of something like growing a human heart in a sheep's body just seems wrong somehow, it probably seems less wrong to the person who actually needs a h

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By Jesse Clark

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August 11, 2011

6 Weird Fashions From History (With Weirder Explanations)

If you intend to do any traveling in a time machine, you'd better invest a whole lot of money in costumes. After all, people in the past looked weird. Why the hell did they, for instance, wear giant white wigs everywhere?

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By Eric Yosomono

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August 11, 2011

5 Scientific Reasons Your Idea of Happiness Is Wrong

Our two favorite subjects at Cracked are the elusive concept of human happiness and Batman. This article is about the first one.

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By Kimmy Dee

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August 08, 2011

6 Ways Bacteria Will Prevent the Apocalypse

There are some strains of bacteria that not only can perform massive, superhero-level feats, but are probably going to be what stands between us and an apocalyptic future.

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By Kristi Harrison, Tom Hohle

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August 07, 2011

7 Questions You Didn't Know Could Be Answered With Math

Nine out of 10 of you have probably used some variation of the term 'I'll never need any of this in the real world' when you were studying math in high school. True, the mechanics of long division and PEMDAS don't seem as important in day to day life as, say, knowing how to change a tire. But according to science, a lot of the problems you face eve

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By CRACKED Staff

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August 03, 2011

5 Animals We Should Be Eating [CHART]

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By Stephen Cook

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July 31, 2011

7 Real Insect Superpowers That Put Spidey Sense to Shame

Insects and arachnids, like humans, have their superheroes with incredible powers. The only difference is that their superheroes are real. And, pound for pound, consistently more impressive than the human version.

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By Karl Smallwood, Monte Richard

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July 21, 2011

The 5 Weirdest Things That Control the Global Economy

The global economy is an insanely complex system of labor, money and goods all governed by laws to keep each facet in check. So it'd be pretty depressing if researchers discovered that the whole thing was actually the end result of a bunch of seemingly random bullshit, wouldn't it?

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By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz

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July 16, 2011

5 Supervillain Tactics Science Is Using to Kill Mosquitoes

What is the deadliest animal in the world? Lions? Sharks? Bears? Bees? Snakes? Rats? It was bears, wasn't it? Is it bears? No, it's the lowly mosquito, and it's not even close.

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By Rory Lynott

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July 11, 2011