Cracked Archive - Science
One of the Most Famous Techniques for Spotting Lies Is Also a Big, Fat Lie
Liars aren’t so easily unmasked, sadly
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- By Ryan Menezes
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4 Infidelity Can Be Self-Care for Women
A new study suggests that cheating may have mental-health benefits for women in committed relationships, but the exact opposite was true for men
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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This Plant Will Make You Starve — No Matter How Much You Eat
Won’t help you burn fat, though. It just kills you
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- By Ryan Menezes
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You’re Not Neurotic. It’s Just Your High Blood Pressure Talking
A new study warns that your mental health problems may not be in your head, but coursing through your veins instead.
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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5 Lies Shark Week Taught Us, According to Science
Every shark ever has not been killed for shark-fin soup
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- By Eli Yudin
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The Father of the Hass Avocado Made a Total of Four Grand From It
Avocado toast pays — just not for him
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Dying Words of Cancer Cells Are Instructions on How to Kill You
Like some sort of sadistic Paul Revere, they warn all of their neighboring cancer cells to scatter and hide before they can be blasted with chemo, too.
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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John from Accounting Might Be the Key to Sticking to Your Diet
Sure, his small talk is terrible, but his salad solidarity could mean a lot more for your health than you think
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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Beekeeping Hasn’t Changed in Nearly 200 Years
We still harvest bee puke from little boxes
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Stockholm Syndrome Kinda Isn’t A Thing
How will we diagnose movie characters now?
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- By Ryan Menezes
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8 Ways Turkeys Are Total Madmen Who Would Happily Kill You
If you die, you die.
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- By Eli Yudin
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Baby Koalas Eat Something Truly Disgusting
it comes out of their mother, and not out the nipples.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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15 Birds Ranked By How Easy They Would Be To Fight
When the bird army comes, who do you want to be matched up against?
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- By Eli Yudin
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Birth Control Pills Actually Contain Pro-Baby Vitamins
This isn't what we thought 'tainted drugs' were.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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15 Scientific Factors That Secretly Influence Who You Have Sex With
We're sorry to tell you that free will is an illusion.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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