Cracked Archive - Science
5 Things You Learn When Your Body Can't Stop Bleeding
Sometimes being an impending blood explosion is wacky, sometimes it's terrifying, but it's rarely ever dull.
- By Amanda Mannen, Alisha Blake
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- May 20, 2015
6 Dark Secrets Harbored By Your Favorite Foods
We all like to think we can add a few years to our lives by carefully choosing what we buy at the grocery store, but sometimes you'd be better off closing your eyes and throwing the first thing you find into your cart.
- By Jim Avery
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- May 17, 2015
6 Reasons We're Closer To Discovering Aliens Than You Think
After telling us for decades that the prospect of finding life in other planet was a crapshoot, science is finally coming to our side.
- By Ivan Farkas
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- May 15, 2015
5 People Who Laugh In The Face Of Their Disabilities
There are people in this world who have taken that disability and body-slammed victimhood balls-first through a table made of middle fingers.
- By CinemaSins
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- May 13, 2015
5 Ways To Relax That Secretly Just Stress You Out
The last thing we want is you making some dumb mistake now and getting hurt or, ya know, 'disappearing.'
- By J.F. Sargent
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- May 12, 2015
6 Weird Ways Your Job Might Be Killing You
No matter what job you have, there seems to be something out to get you.
- By Amanda Mannen
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- May 10, 2015
6 Awful Realities Of Falling Into (And Out Of) A Coma
We talked to Tim, who woke up from a coma and told us that, among other things, it's not as simple as 'waking up.'
- By Ryan Menezes, Tim Cherry
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- May 10, 2015
5 Insane Lies You Probably Believe About American Families
As much as we hear about how shitty single parents are, how modern kids are all disrespectful murder-hooligans, and how absent black fathers are ruining a generation of youth, the truth is much different.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- May 05, 2015
Major Surgery With No Painkillers: 5 Things I Learned
Cracked sat down with Vijay Welch-Young, a man who had chest-slicing, cancer-dicing heart surgery without general anesthesia, which means he was awake for THE WHOLE THING.
- By Robert Evans, Kier Harris, Vijay Welch-Young
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- May 05, 2015
6 Lessons You Learn On Long Road Trips
It's 2 AM on a Monday and here you are, covered in blood, with a bag over your shoulder. And you're asking me to help you. It's just ... I dunno. I dunno man.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- April 28, 2015
5 Horrifying Things Real Dead Bodies Do (Too Weird For TV)
Corpse juice, y'all.
- By Anonymous, J.F. Sargent
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- April 25, 2015
5 Sayings Smart People Love To Debunk (Science Proved True)
Psychologists have recently specified a new official personality category called
- By Federico Cruz
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- April 24, 2015
5 Tiny Things Secretly Determining Who You Have Sex With
The road to a successful relationship is so filled with surprising potholes and dangerous crevasses that it's kind of amazing the human race hasn't given up and gone extinct millennia ago.
- By Dennis Hong
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- April 15, 2015
6 Bizarre Medical Conditions That Shouldn't Be Possible
In the name of preparedness (and giving hypochondriacs something new to obsess over), we want to let you know of a few things.
- By Himanshu Sharma, Janel Comeau
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- April 14, 2015
5 Things I Learned Cutting My Boobs Off to Avoid Cancer
Some people know cancer is coming, thanks to a certain gene mutation they can get tested for. Rather than take this sitting down, Eden Dranger opted to have her boobs removed before they could make her sick.
- By Eden Dranger
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- April 12, 2015
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