Cracked Archive - Science
Can science and mathematics quantify something as mysterious as the beauty of music, or the evil of the human spirit, or the madness of a panicked mob? Yeah, pretty much.
- By Matt Jones
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- January 18, 2013
For most of us, research is something you 'Google.' For others, it's something that puts hair on your nether region.
- By J. Wisniewski
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- January 17, 2013
They say you should never judge a book by its cover. But when it comes to people, covers are the shit.
- By XJ Selman
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- January 16, 2013
Unfortunately, we can't turn you into a genius -- but we can do is teach you all the tricks you need to seem like one.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- January 14, 2013
There are some startlingly human traits that turn up in the creatures you'd least expect.
- By Justin Crockett, XJ Selman
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- January 13, 2013
You might be surprised to find out that some of that motherly health advice that sounds suspiciously like superstitious nonsense now wasn't so made up after all.
- By R. Jason Benson
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- January 12, 2013
The best way to handle your murderous clones.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- January 10, 2013
Your many glaring personality flaws aside, sometimes the deck is just plain stacked against you for reasons you would never expect
- By XJ Selman
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- January 10, 2013
Science is just beginning to understand the factors that control your dreams, but what we've discovered so far is weird as hell.
- By S Peter Davis
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- January 07, 2013
Food can and absolutely will affect you in plenty of other ways besides just filling your stomach. And it keeps getting weirder.
- By XJ Selman
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- January 04, 2013
Damn it, science, it's the 21st century! Where's the pill that makes all of our human flaws disappear? Not far away apparently.
- By Eddie Rodriguez, Aatif Zubair
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- January 01, 2013
We like to think we've got a pretty good handle on how sex works at this point, but to be honest, we'd have paid way more attention in sex ed class if they'd told us these things.
- By Isaac Mook
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- December 31, 2012
As many unimaginable horrors as Mother Nature enjoys throwing at us, there are other, less fortunate animals out there who live their entire lives hunted by the kind of creatures that make horror movie villains pale in comparison.
- By Andrew Munro, Lachlan M.
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- December 30, 2012
In the game of "Pick a Superpower" let us submit some lesser known yet still amazing bodily functions that would be life-changing or, if nothing else, hilarious.
- By Karl Smallwood, Agneeth Mazumdar, Micah Duke
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- December 27, 2012
It is horrifyingly easy to manipulate a person's moral decisions without them knowing it -- that's why this is one of our favorite subjects.
- By XJ Selman
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- December 27, 2012
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