Cracked Archive - Science
6 Reasons Space Travel Will Always Suck
Science: Fiction's wet blanket since forever.
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- By Johan Volkert
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1510 8 Health Foods That Are Bad For Your Health
Next time you're offered a muffin, whip this article out and continue stuffing that Big Mac down your throat.
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- By Christina H
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5 Superpowers We All Had as Babies (According to Science)
Not unlike Clark Kent, babies everywhere have managed to fool the world with their mild-mannered public persona, masking the amazing superpowers nearly all of them possess.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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7 Incredible Scientific Innovations Held Back by Petty Feuds
We would probably all be flying to work on rocket motorcycles by now if history's greatest geniuses hadn't spent their entire careers arguing over who had the biggest Bunsen burner.
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- By Jack Mendoza
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The 7 Most Horrifying Things Ever Discovered in a Human Body
Most experienced surgeons and doctors will say they've seen it all. Most surgery is fairly routine, and it's only occasionally that you slice somebody open and some really crazy shit pops out. But when it does, man, crazy is definitely not an over-exaggeration.
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- By Shelby Fero
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5 Psych Experiments That Sounded Fun (Until They Started)
All these experiments were very real and sounded very awesome. On the surface. The truth was a very different kind of animal.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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6 Scientific Reasons People Drive Like Assholes
People can't drive worth a shit. On the road, we're a bunch of inconsiderate jerks and science has proven it.
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- By Dave Easton
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5 Works of Legitimate Mad Science Passed Off as Art
The people that take the abstract concepts of art and the concrete realities of science and mix them together are just as crazy as you'd expect.
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- By Robert Brockway
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5 Animals That Are Terrifyingly Hard to Kill
These are Mother Nature's last line of defense when Cracked rages its war against her. We are totally boned.
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- By Shelby Fero
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6 Reasons Assholes Are Healthier (According to Science)
That asshole rageaholic who you thought was a heart attack just waiting to happen? He'll be jogging on your grave.
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- By Philip Moon
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6 Subtle Ways The News Media Disguises Bullshit As Fact
The media has extremely subtle ways of manipulating your point of view in whichever way they see fit. Next time you open a paper, keep your eyes peeled for these techniques.
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- By C. Coville
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7 (Thankfully) Extinct Giant Versions of Modern Animals
In prehistoric times, you would've had to wear a diaper wherever you went on account of these pants-shittingly huge monsters ready to eat you.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Terrible Ideas That Science Says Will Save the Planet
Plans to save the planet straight from the scientists at 'Futurama' University.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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The 6 Most Badass Robots (Invented Before Electricity)
You might think that robots are strictly a 20th century invention, but you'd be sorely mistaken: At the same time that the human race thought stomach aches were just tiny, enchanted dwarfs casting hunger spells, a few brilliant souls (possibly aliens) were actually building full functional robots.
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- By Christian Ames
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6 Human Character Flaws (That Saved the Species)
It turns out that all of our bad habits came about for a reason, and in order to become nature's biggest winners, we first had to act like pretty big losers.
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- By Nathan Birch
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