Science & History
The 6 Most Frequently Quoted Brain Facts (That Are Total BS)
After millennia of research, experts still don't know very much about the human brain. As such, most of what you have picked up on the subject from pop culture is just laughably wrong.
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- By J.N. Chaney
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6 Animals That Kill Nature's Scariest Creatures For Fun
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Things You Won't Believe Animals Do Just Like Us
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- By Kristi Harrison, Fady Labib, Eddie Rodriguez
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The 5 Creepiest Ways Animals Have Mastered Mind Control
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- By Luke Taylor
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
5 Physical Details That Reveal Highly Personal Information
None of these are 100 percent, and you should not use any of them to make unfair assumptions about people. It is only in the name of entertainment that we point out what researchers have found.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Eric Yosomono
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6 Beneficial Things They Made You Stop Doing in School
It's easy to think of a classroom as a battle of wills between kids who want to dick around all day and teachers who actually want to make them learn. But it's not that simple. A lot of the things that will get you yelled at in a classroom are, in fact, beneficial to learning.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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The 5 Weirdest Things That Influence How Your Food Tastes
As with the other four senses, your taste is manipulated by a whole bunch of factors outside of your control.
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- By Adam Wears
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The 7 Most Terrifying Pirates from History
Between Johnny Depp and numerous sports logos, pirates have become cartoon characters in modern culture. It's easy to forget that the real thing did exist, and that in many cases they were much more badass than the Hollywood version.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Jean Flynn
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The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Ways Your Brain Can Malfunction
Guess what? There are mental disorders that can mess with your perception of reality in unimaginable ways, while often leaving the rest of your mind untouched.
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- By Lana Frankle
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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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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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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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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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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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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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