Cracked Archive - Science
5 Uncomfortable Truths About Our High-Tech Future No One Wants To Talk About
Time to train a computer to recognize my voice and never think about what that means
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17 Soda Is Coming for Our Hair Now
First it was our teeth. Then our waistlines. Now a new study says soft drinks could be responsible for male-pattern baldness, too
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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How to Predict Your Friends’ Breakups Using Social Media
We've become such an evolved society that we can now chart the arrival of heartbreak by Reddit and Twitter posts
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Things Everyone Fears vs. What They Should Actually Be Afraid Of
Nature’s greatest predator: a freaked out deer
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Animals That Defeated the Human Oppressors Who Wanted to Keep Them in Captivity
The animal rebellion has begun
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- By Ryan Menezes
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That Dinner for One You’re Pretending Isn’t Sad Is Literally Breaking Your Heart
A new study underscores just how much damage an inordinate amount of alone time does to your body
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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4 Bad Foods We Can Move on From in the Modern World
Your watch has ended, Cheerios. It’s time to hang the box from the rafters
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- By Eli Yudin
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Why We Like to Think the Bad Boy Has a Heart of Gold
As the saying goes, ‘It's what’s on the inside that counts’ — and a new study has found that those words never ring more true than when a bad boy is involved
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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The Monty Python ‘Silly Walk’ Is Actually Great Exercise, A Very Serious Study Finds
You don’t have to do anything other than change your normal gait to something as ridiculous as a Python sketch to burn some major calories
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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Why You Just Ate An Entire Bag of Potato Chips, According to Genetics
It’s not your fault — it’s these stupid neurons in your brain that are basically forcing you to finish that family-size bag during a single commercial break
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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This Toilet Wants to Record Ever Sound You Make on It
It’s for the public good and to stop cholera, okay?
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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Your Doctor Doesn’t Even Follow Medication Instructions
A new study shows that your physician is actually worse than you are at reading all of the fine print on pill bottles
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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5 Other Global Catastrophes to Worry About If We Fix Climate Change
Even if we grow the icecaps back, we basically just sit around and wait to get murked by a meteorite
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- By Eli Yudin
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Here’s How You Learn to Be Fearless, You Coward
A new study indicates that even the most terrified among us aren’t doomed to a lifetime of despair after all
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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4 of the Wildest Contingency Plans the Government Has Cooked Up
We simply block out the sun, and the globe CAN’T be warmed
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- By Eli Yudin
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