Science & History
The 6 Most Horrifying Ways Hospitals Can Kill You
DO NOT BE AFRAID TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL IF YOU ARE SICK. Nothing you will read in this article is suggesting that it's just better to nurse your horrible infection back to health in the comfort of your own garage.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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6 Real Historic Battles Decided by Divine Intervention
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Bizarre Ways Architecture Is Designed to Ward Off 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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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
6 New Weapons That Are Making War Look Like a Cartoon
When we see the prototypes theseweapons designers are testing, we realize the battlefield of the future will be utterly insane.
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- By Danny Vittore
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6 Random Things (Other Than Drugs) That Reduce Pain
Your nearest drugstore is full of completely fake pain remedies, from shoe magnets to magical ground-up shark bones. But while these new age medicines are little more than placebos, science has found a whole lot of unexpected -- and downright weird -- ways you can control pain without ever swallowing a pill.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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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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