Cracked Archive - Science
Bad habits can ruin your life. And it turns out your brain is perfectly fine with that.
- By Dennis Hong
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- September 26, 2012
Apparently, there are some seemingly random activities that are more like cheat codes to happiness.
- By XJ Selman
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- September 25, 2012
Much like Darth Vader, some drugs aren't completely evil, or even as bad as they seem.
- By Rory Hayes
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- September 22, 2012
Spiders are more like Spider-Man than we think. Though they have yet to master the make-out session, they have racked up some other pretty crazy abilities.
- By Monte Richard
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- September 22, 2012
You've stayed in school, stayed off drugs and made the right friends. Dollar bills should be raining down on you like a ticker tape parade, right? Not if you've got these completely arbitrary factors working against you.
- By Ann Z.
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- September 20, 2012
Every now and then, an animal's sensory superiority goes above and beyond the usual and takes a turn for the bizarre and/or terrifying.
- By Monte Richard
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- September 19, 2012
One thing we've discovered over and over again is that nature is always weirder than what we give it credit for.
- By Mike Cooney, Alex Brettingen
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- September 17, 2012
It turns out the world is full of zero-cost solutions that save lives. It's just a matter of convincing people to use them.
- By Erik Carrera, Lillian Marx
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- September 06, 2012
You probably think you know everything you need to about worms. But you're wrong. So horrifyingly, nightmare-inducingly wrong.
- By Andrew Munro
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- September 03, 2012
Where are we with green technology? That awkward stage where we have to wonder if it's all really worth it. Because some of the kinks we're running into range from horrifying to downright bizarre.
- By Nick Masercola, Heather Farris
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- August 30, 2012
Sometimes science has to be ruthless. If curing cancer means dropping a dozen frightened children into the jungle for some reason, then by God that's what you do.
- By R. Jason Benson
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- August 29, 2012
Apparently there are lots of little, arbitrary things that can boost your brain power in ways you'd never expect.
- By Micah Niedner, XJ Selman
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- August 24, 2012
What kind of lives are there for our robots? Abject servitude and eventual genocide? Oh no. Humanity isn't going to let that happen. We have other ideas and, inevitably, human nature will take these robot slaves down some darker paths.
- By Ian Fortey
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- August 21, 2012
Every attempt to prove that humans have some kind of telepathic sixth sense shows it to be complete bullshit. But we still shouldn't sell ourselves short -- we have all sorts of extra senses that we either never use or don't notice when we do.
- By XJ Selman
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- August 21, 2012
Even the best works could stand to learn a little something from the past, so here are a few things that I miss about old science fiction, and would like to see come back.
- By Robert Brockway
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- August 17, 2012
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