Cracked Archive - Science
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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230 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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6 Everyday Things You Had No Clue Were Made Of Dead Animals
You don't have to be a hardcore vegan or vegetarian to be unnerved that there are dead animal bits in this stuff.
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- By Kelly Stone
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6 Ways Life Gets Complicated When Disease Overruns Your Town
Back in 2002, SARS appeared in China and the world went nuts. We talked to Tyler, a kid living literally down the street from where the disease first popped up.
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- By Anonymous, Ryan Menezes
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Uhh, Modern Medicine ... You OK?
These medical practices seem right in line with what you'd see stumbling through the wrong door at the Umbrella Corporation.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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6 WTF Hollywood Plots (That Are Rapidly Becoming Real Life)
The future is rapidly closing in on us like a rabid cheetah.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Small-Ass Animals With Huge-Ass Powers
Size doesn't matter. (In the Animal Kingdom at least.)
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- By Brigid Melloy, Luke Miller
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4 Things About Space Travel You're Picturing Totally Wrong
Sadly, sci-fi hasn't taught us how to actually deal with life in space.
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- By Justin Crockett
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6 Real Inventions That Would Seem Over The Top In A Movie
Has Science ever bothered to address what we, as a species, REALY need: awesome-looking superpowers? Actually, yes.
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- By Norbert Gehardt
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8 Things You Didn't Realize Will Be Ruined By Climate Change
Climate change is slowly compiling a kaleidoscope of unexpected ways to make all of our lives a living hell.
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- By Cedric Voets
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7 Scenes From Nature Too Ridiculous To Be Real (But Are)
There are times when Mother Nature is a maniac flinging neon paint and giraffe DNA into our universe just to see what will happen.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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6 Ways Society Is Designed To Screw Teenagers Every Day
It's always been rough being a teenager, and there's at least some evidence it's now rougher than ever.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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5 Painfully Accurate Human Behaviors In The Primate World
Soon, monkeys will have unsatisfying jobs in IT and erectile dysfunction.
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- By Nathan Williams
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7 Species That Will Rule The Earth When We're All Dead
Plenty of species are just waiting for us to extinct ourselves as hard as humanly possible -- and some of them might be getting a bit impatient.
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- By Cedric Voets
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