Cracked Archive - Science
6 Animals That Prove Nature Has a Childish Sense of Humor
It's hard to believe these species didn't solely come about to keep middle-schoolers in stitches.
- By E. Reid Ross
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- March 31, 2013
5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Become Instantly Smarter
e don't guarantee that these will work for you -- all we can say is that smarter people than us have gotten them to work under scientifically controlled conditions.
- By Paul K Pickett, Erik Carrera, David Rose
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- March 27, 2013
6 Design Flaws That Annoy You Every Day (And Why They Exist)
We've documented six everyday annoyances that exist for wholly legitimate yet completely infuriating business reasons.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- March 26, 2013
5 Brain Hacks That Give You Mind-Blowing Powers
These hacks come with various degrees of difficulty, but no risk or potential for injury. And actual scientists say that all of them work.
- By Agneeth Mazumdar, Jamie Flexman
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- March 25, 2013
20 Horrifying but True Facts About How Your Food is Made
There are huge, impressive teams of scientists working around the clock to make new and cheaper food scented concoctions that are close enough to pass your taste test. Thankfully, our readers are happy to enlighten you with the horribly disturbing truth about what you're eating.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- March 25, 2013
5 Ridiculous Natural Disaster Myths You Probably Believe
Extreme weather has become a sort of boogeyman for humanity. And like any boogeyman, the urban legends and old wives' tales have completely outpaced the original threat.
- By Jesse Clark
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- March 22, 2013
So You're Stuck in a Time Loop
'It's glowing! The time shifter! It's spinning out of control!' 'Stop stabbing it!'
- By Chris Bucholz
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- March 19, 2013
5 Ways Statistics Are Used to Lie to You Every Day
There are some basics that everyone should know. Each of them sounds incredibly simple when it's explained, yet each of them will fool you again within days of reading this article.
- By Nathaniel Cope, James Spedding
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- March 19, 2013
18 Sports That Are Way More Fun to Play in Space
Every sport is 'extreme' when it's in space. Take out gravity and replace it with rockets and you have a pretty badass version of ... well, really, anything.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- March 18, 2013
The 6 Most Baffling Science Experiments Ever Funded
Scientists are only human, and some humans are just plain crazy. Which is why, on occasion, those serious old men in their fine white coats up and throw sense straight out the window.
- By Ricardo Rivera
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- March 17, 2013
6 Mind Blowing Things Nobody Taught You About Black Holes
Black holes are what happens when the universe divides by zero and eats anything that tries to notice.
- By Luke McKinney
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- March 15, 2013
5 Animals That Could Take Over the World (If They Wanted To)
Not a day goes by without someone here at Cracked fantasizing about punching an animal for humanity's sake.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- March 11, 2013
5 Diabolical Ways Your Body Tricks You into Being Fat
We're not saying that willpower and mental fortitude don't play a role. We're just saying that even if your mind is in the right place, the deck is still stacked against you in a bunch of different ways.
- By XJ Selman
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- March 08, 2013
5 Daily Annoyances That Must Be Part of a Secret Experiment
It's impossible to believe so much inconvenience could be anything other than intentional, and I like to take a minute to let myself believe that maybe it is.
- By Soren Bowie
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- February 26, 2013
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