Cracked Archive - Science
5 Seemingly Impossible Things Your Body Does Every Day
Turns out our stupid meatshells are actually working overtime to juggle ridiculously complicated tasks behind the scenes.
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- By Howard L., Ivan Farkas
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577 5 Bizarre Ways You Won't Believe Sound Screws With Your Body
It doesn't seem as sexy as light, but by noogie-ing sound into submission, you can make it do some pretty amazing stuff.
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- By Rodney Taylor
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The 6 Most Horrifying Robotic Animals That Actually Exist
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so Mother Nature, consider these bizarre and terrifying abominations a compliment.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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5 Advanced Ancient Technologies That Shouldn't Be Possible
Modern humans are the best humans. Sort of ...
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- By Aatif Zubair, Ivan Farkas
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6 Bullshit Myths You Believe About the Human Body
The average person knows shockingly little about the human body, considering that they've spent their entire life living inside one.
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- By Victor Kamwengu
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7 Creepy Plants That Shouldn't Exist (Part 2)
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- By Kel Zhang
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6 Animals That Look Like Drunken Combinations of Other Ones
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- By Kel Zhang, E. Reid Ross, Ivan Farkas
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6 Geniuses Who Saw Their Inventions Turn Evil
History is full of examples of inventors who've seen their noble, genius intentions go the Frankenstein route and bring the world nothing but pain and misery.
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- By Daniel Nest, Blair Dodge
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The 5 Perviest Scientific Studies Ever Published
Human sexuality is a complicated thing, and in the name of research sometimes you just have to roll up your sleeves and get down and dirty. As in the following ridiculously awkward studies.
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- By Lachlan M., Simen Dalehavn Faaberg
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6 Insane Species Infestations (Caused by Humans)
Mankind is still at least a couple centuries away from figuring out that yanking a species out of its natural habitat and transplanting it somewhere else is a dumb idea.
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- By Jordan Rudow
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5 Animals That Have Learned How to Keep Pets
Looking around this giant waterlogged space-boulder we call Earth, we find several clear cases of domestication among animals that shouldn't even grasp the concept.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Ridiculous Lies You Probably Believe About Psychology
After a semester of intro to psychology and a dozen BuzzFeed quizzes, you might think you've got a pretty good understanding of how the human psyche works. But not so fast ...
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- By Carmen Burana, M. Merberg
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6 Ways Movies Get Space Wrong (by Astronaut Chris Hadfield)
If you're ever up in space and suddenly go blind, don't panic. Chris Hadfield can totally see now.
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- By Mark Hill
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5 Mysteries About the Human Race That Science Can't Explain
We've nailed a whole lot down, sure, but there are some shockingly simple questions we don't have very solid answers to yet.
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- By Monte Richard, Himanshu Sharma
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5 Bizarre Things Your Body Does (Explained by Science)
As a result of the tireless work by scientists, we now know the answers to some age-old mysteries.
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- By Josh Hrala, Ivan Farkas
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