Cracked Archive - Science
5 Reasons Why The Marvel Universe Makes Absolutely No Sense
As Marvel developed its increasingly convoluted cinematic universe they proved even they weren't exempt from the occasional misstep.
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- By Stone Erickson
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167 5 Gruesome Experiments Scientists Tested (On Themselves)
Some brave scientists get around the ethics board by using themselves as guinea pigs.
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- By Richard Gough, Jordan Breeding
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The Secret Of NIMH Was Inspired By A Horrific Experiment
NIMH was a real place and their rat experiments were way darker than the book, movie or your nightmares depicted!
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- By Greg Tuff
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8 Ways Earth Will Look Freaking Insane In Thousands Of Years
There's a good chance that Future Earth will look like a 5-year-old's attempt at making the planet out of mismatched Lego pieces.
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- By S Peter Davis
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5 Huge Innovations Held Back By Plain Human Stupidity
Human Innovation is an unstoppable steamroller, until it collides with the steamroller that is Human Stupidity.
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- By John Preston Ford
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5 Simple Ways to Save Thousands of Lives (Nobody Does)
Us no-smart-brain people tend to think that big problems require incredibly difficult solutions. But, well, of course that isn't always the case.
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- By Jim Avery
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7 Horrifying Pest Infestations You Had No Clue Were Possible
Sometimes, critters get a little sick of humans and will rise up by invading whatever human territory they can.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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4 Random Things That Predict Huge Health Problems Later
We can't thwart the common cold, but we can still figure out some pretty crazy health issues with little to go on.
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- By Ivan Farkas, E. Fitzgerald
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Do You Want To Set Your Hand On Fire? 6 Fun Science Tricks
Science is the exacting method by which man has wrested control of the elements from the cruel clutches of the universe. Now it's time to abuse our power for stupidly fun purposes.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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5 Mathematical Strategies For Dominating Popular Games
Good news: The world is full of experts researching ways to ruthlessly gain every possible advantage in even the most light-hearted of games.
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- By Federico Cruz
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6 Healthy Habits With Huge Downsides (Nobody Talks About)
Sorry to tell you, but bunch of your new 'healthy' habits are B.S.
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- By Mark Hill
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6 Frightening New Drugs (You've Never Heard Of)
Since the dawn of time, mankind has endeavored to keep finding new ways to get totally housed. So let's see the latest innovations our often short-lived drug pioneers have come up with.
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- By Cedric Voets
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5 Official-Sounding Measurements That Are Complete BS
We put so much faith in numbers that we don't bother to look too closely at where they come from.
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- By Nathan Kamal, Greg Tuff, Andrea Meno
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7 Giant Crazy Real Things That Look Straight Sci Fi, Son
Some Sciences are Scienced up from bizarre, fantastical landscapes.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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Huge Real-World Consequences Of Thinking Vaginas Are Icky
Men's colossal failure to understand the female anatomy bleeds into many aspects of our supposedly modern world.
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- By Adam Koski, Roisin Isner, Mike Turner
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