Cracked Archive - Science
6 Myths Everyone Believes about Space (Thanks to Movies)
Yep, it's not enough for space to make us feel small -- it needs to make us feel stupid, too.
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2583 5 Creepy Forms of Mind Control You're Exposed to Daily
We know what you're thinking: You're far too cynical to fall for the ads you fast forward through on your DVR or the little tricks employed by marketers and politicians to push your subconscious buttons. But are you sure?
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- By Dennis Hong
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The 6 Weirdest Ways Wild Animals Are Having to Adapt to Us
Humanity's only effect on the animal kingdom isn't just pure destruction; in fact, sometimes our ecological footprint looks more like a clown shoe.
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- By Karl Smallwood
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6 Scientific Discoveries That Laugh in the Face of Physics
There exist special occasions where the universe up and does a magic trick that seems to be designed by an unjust, all-powerful entity dedicated to making scientists ask, 'What in the hell?'
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- By T. Joseph Lahucik
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6 Realities of Teleportation Star Trek Didn't Warn Us About
how far away are we from transporters? Well, it turns out that there are a few complications ...
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6 Small Math Errors That Caused Huge Disasters
If there are any children reading this, there's really only one thing we want to tell you about adulthood: If you make one tiny mistake, people will die.
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- By Chris Radomile
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5 Absurd Solutions to Huge Problems (That Actually Worked)
Who among us hasn't been asked by a teacher or a boss to think outside the box? It's all well and good when you're looking at a word problem on a Denny's application, not so much when you're staring down a problem with lives on the line.
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- By Adam Wears, Mohammed Shariff
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5 'Modern' Medical Procedures (Are Thousands of Years Old)
Despite what you've seen in Monty Python movies or at Renaissance Faires, people in olden days were a lot smarter than we give them credit for.
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- By Patrick Hopkins
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6 Insane Last Resort Surgeries That Actually Worked
The following surgeries prove that even the smartest of doctors can have crazy ideas. But is an idea really that crazy if it works? Yes. Yes it is.
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- By Erik Germ
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The 6 Weirdest Things That Are Ruining Your Memory
If you want your memory to stay strong, you probably already know what to avoid -- excessive alcohol, beating your head on things, getting any older. What you probably didn't know is that there are other, lesser known everyday threats that may be slowly turning you into that guy from 'Memento.'
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5 Fish Clearly Designed by a Madman
You know what the problem with 'Sharktopus' was? It just wasn't necessary. Nature provides enough science-fiction-level aquatic horrors all on her own. Hell, some of these are less believable.
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- By Monte Richard
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6 People Who Gained Amazing Skills from Brain Injuries
In real life, people don't suffer freaky events like getting struck by lightning or getting part of their brain removed and then suddenly find themselves with new superpowers, like heat vision or flight. However, people do apparently suffer freaky events and then gain the ability to do art.
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- By Eddie Rodriguez
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6 Animals With Better Memories Than You
Despite our big, juicy frontal lobe, many of us still forget to pick up the kids after practice due to our inferior memory, one area where a whole bunch of animals leave us in the dust.
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- By Aram Khayatpour, Sam Farahmand
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6 Most Badass Self-Inflicted Medical Experiments
These individuals have thrown down the proverbial gauntlet of badassery, making most of modern-day medicine look really, really lame.
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- By Nate Greenslit
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5 Ridiculous Animal Myths That You Probably Believe
Somewhere, right now, an adult is quoting an interesting animal 'fact' that he actually learned from an old cartoon. And this is how animals became one of those subjects particularly vulnerable to laughable misconceptions.
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- By Mohammed Shariff
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