Cracked Archive - Science
5 Facial Features That Rat Out Everything About You
[Disclaimer: Do not start putting garbage bags on your head]
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- By Himanshu Sharma
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346 6 Space Travel Problems With WTF Solutions No One Saw Coming
Want to drink water in space? Prepare to consume recycled sweat, dirty water, and, yes, pee.
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- By Nathan Shulkin
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5 Dumb Things Every Kid Thinks (Science Says Are True)
It turns out there was a very good reason you couldn't finish your vegetables but always had room for cookies.
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- By Jeff Sloan, Abraham Mireles, Laura H, Lisa Olsen
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6 Absurd Ways Modern Medicine Fails Because Of Sexism
Unfortunately, modern medicine firmly believes that all medical problems either affect everyone in exactly the same way or don't affect one gender at all.
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- By Natalie Vail
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5 Healthcare Rip-Offs The Industry Hopes You'll Never Notice
It turns out a lot of common healthcare practices don't really fit the definition of 'science-based medicine.'
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- By E. Reid Ross
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6 Horrifying Things The Nutrition Industry Won't Tell You
'Healthy' and 'unhealthy' foods trade places more often than pro wrestlers in a tag-team match.
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- By Davian Venture
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6 Space Projects That Will Guarantee Aliens Will Hate Us
What will Earth look like to you, a benevolent extraterrestrial emperor? The answer is 'A planet full of Darth Vaders hopped up on bath salts.'
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- By E. Reid Ross
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6 Hallmarks Of Disastrous Parenting (Confirmed By Science)
There are plenty of parenting techniques that just seem like common sense, until science comes in and points out how your well-meaning habits are just making things worse.
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- By Lisa Olsen
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8 Innocent Things That Are Signs Of Huge Health Problems
Sometimes a flaw is just a flaw, but other times it can be the Silver Surfer to a Galactus-sized, life-ruining problem.
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- By XJ Selman
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6 Things About Space You're Picturing Almost Exactly Wrong
Space is as incomprehensible as it is awesome.
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- By Stephen Perry
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The 7 Most Hilariously Creepy Science Experiments Ever
Scientists routinely get away with things that would brand anyone else a psychopath.
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- By Mark Hill
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6 Creepy Sixth Senses You've Always Had And Never Noticed
Yes, we're aware that we're up to our 16th 'sixth' sense by now.
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- By XJ Selman
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6 Amazing Inventions That Will Soon Make Your Job Total Hell
Corporations have taken things to new extremes that are going to make work inexplicably even more miserable.
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- By Chris Radomile
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5 Baffling Lies Society Told You About Fat People
Almost every aspect of our war against fat is screwed by a slew of misconceptions, mistakes, and dodgy data.
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- By E. Fitzgerald
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5 Awesome Life Hacks Hidden In Your Own Body
Before everybody started calling everyday tips 'Life Hacks,' they were often called folk remedies, and they usually rhymed.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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