Cracked Archive - Science
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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211 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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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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