Cracked Archive - Science
6 Horrifying Animal Kills Science Didn't Think Were Possible
Nature is brutal and uncaring, and should be utterly destroyed.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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1133 5 Ridiculous Health Myths You Probably Believe
It's a thankless task, knocking down these myths, but one we believe is for the ultimate good of humanity.
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- By Aces M.
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8 Ordinary Things That Look Insanely Cool Under a Microscope
A really powerful microscope is the sort of thing nobody would buy for entertainment, yet we can't shake the feeling that if we had one, we'd use it all the time.
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- By Dustin Koski, Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris
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The 6 Coolest Survival Traits Designed by Evolution
It turns out that, occasionally, evolution will reach way the hell out of the box and come back with solar-powered lizards and Iron Man snails.
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- By Andrew Heaton
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5 Ways Your Brain Is Tricking You into Being Miserable
Everyone wants to be happy, but the biggest obstacle to that is the mushy thing inside your skull that you think with.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Dieter Melsens
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The 7 Most Bizarre Natural Phenomena Caught on Camera
Here are a few natural phenomena that prove nature is probably just screwing around with us.
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- By Jayden McLeod
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8 Animals That Are Just Lazy Combinations of Other Animals
It turns out nature gets off on haphazardly stapling DNA together and calling it a day.
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- By Andrew Burch, Monte Richard, E. Reid Ross
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6 Animals That Prove Nature Has a Childish Sense of Humor
It's hard to believe these species didn't solely come about to keep middle-schoolers in stitches.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Become Instantly Smarter
e don't guarantee that these will work for you -- all we can say is that smarter people than us have gotten them to work under scientifically controlled conditions.
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- By Paul K Pickett, Erik Carrera, David Rose
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5 Brain Hacks That Give You Mind-Blowing Powers
These hacks come with various degrees of difficulty, but no risk or potential for injury. And actual scientists say that all of them work.
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- By Agneeth Mazumdar, Jamie Flexman
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5 Ridiculous Natural Disaster Myths You Probably Believe
Extreme weather has become a sort of boogeyman for humanity. And like any boogeyman, the urban legends and old wives' tales have completely outpaced the original threat.
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- By Jesse Clark
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5 Ways Statistics Are Used to Lie to You Every Day
There are some basics that everyone should know. Each of them sounds incredibly simple when it's explained, yet each of them will fool you again within days of reading this article.
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- By Nathaniel Cope, James Spedding
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The 6 Most Baffling Science Experiments Ever Funded
Scientists are only human, and some humans are just plain crazy. Which is why, on occasion, those serious old men in their fine white coats up and throw sense straight out the window.
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- By Ricardo Rivera
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5 Diabolical Ways Your Body Tricks You into Being Fat
We're not saying that willpower and mental fortitude don't play a role. We're just saying that even if your mind is in the right place, the deck is still stacked against you in a bunch of different ways.
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- By XJ Selman
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5 Insane Sci-Fi Weapons That Now Exist in Reality
There are two kinds of scientists in this world -- those whose discoveries will lead the planet into a new era of enlightenment, and those whose research will inevitably be stolen by terrorists who enjoy dressing up as snakes. This article is dedicated to this second group.
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- By Monte Richard
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