Cracked Archive - Science
While we're 95 percent sure 'Ocean's 11' wasn't a documentary, there are some real world Danny Oceans using real world Danny Oceanesque cheats. Only they didn't have to risk breaking into a vault to rob the casinos for piles of cash; they did it right from the casino floor, with ingenious tricks.
- By Benjamin Buso
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- May 12, 2012
Every once in a while, a completely innocuous animal will look at our quaint neighborhoods and civilized lives and say, 'Oh, that's way better. Let's go live there.'
- By Erik Germ
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- May 10, 2012
These infections would be considered too gross for a Cronenberg movie.
- By Alex Kendziorski
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- May 06, 2012
It's easy to forget how ludicrously terrifying the natural world can be, and how very small we are in the face of it. When confronted with the grand, humbling, massive and occasionally deadly power of our planet, what can one measly little human being do? Run? Cry? Not these people.
- By Robert Brockway
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- April 25, 2012
If society has taught us one thing, it's that it becomes way too easy to claim that all sexual and gender stereotypes date back to the early days of human evolution.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- April 24, 2012
Many people see DNA as something magical -- written down long ago which just tells you how things are going to be. Which is a pity, because that attitude is pretty much the opposite of science.
- By Luke McKinney
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- April 22, 2012
Plenty of brilliant people have done crazy things in the service of the scientific method. What's harder to figure out are the famously brilliant scientists who went above and beyond to proudly wave two middle fingers in the face of reason.
- By Howard L.
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- April 16, 2012
Kids who grew up in the '90s couldn't leave the house without a speech on stranger danger and an extra dose of Flintstones vitamins. But it turns out there are some things that lazy/negligent parents kind of got right.
- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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- April 12, 2012
Apparently, real longevity indicators are things you probably wouldn't guess in a hundred years (even if you managed to live that long).
- By Michael Corvinus
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- April 11, 2012
Our old friend science has tracked down some of the completely random things that decide whether or not your memory will choose to function at a particular moment. Thanks, science.
- By Eddie Rodriguez
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- April 10, 2012
Imagine you're an animal, attending your evolutionary family reunion. You might be surprised to find out how remarkably similar it is to your last family reunion: You spend the day trying to avoid 'that guy' that no one wants to admit you're related to, while the rest of your relatives randomly eat each other. This article is for the 'that guys.'
- By Michael Vozniak
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- April 08, 2012
Let's face it, we all hate nature to varying degrees and for our own reasons. But surely nothing inspires loathing of the animal kingdom like the fact that its creatures are constantly trying to trick us.
- By Monte Richard, E. Reid Ross
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- April 05, 2012
he most dangerous animal on earth is man -- nothing you read in this article will change that. Animals kill for food and territory, and out of fear, but it takes a man to kill repeatedly, just for the fun of it ... usually ...
- By Robert Evans, Jacopo della Quercia
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- March 27, 2012
We wondered if there were ways to use math to completely ruin all innocent games from our childhood. Guess what? There are!
- By Karl Smallwood
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- March 23, 2012
It's no shock to find out that remedies involving magic and ghosts don't really make your pain go away. It would be more of a surprise to learn that they do. Well ... surprise! (Sort of.)
- By Pauli Poisuo, Alexia Franklin
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- March 20, 2012
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