Cracked Archive - Science
6 Uneducated Amateurs Whose Genius Changed the World
Now, we're not telling you not to get an education -- everybody knows employers these days want a degree. But we'd be remiss if we didn't take a moment to celebrate some of the amazing achievements from people who had virtually no education at all.
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- By John Champion
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551 7 Mind-Blowing Vehicles Built and Driven by Animals
We've already pointed out that animals are capable of building pretty impressive cities, but at least they're not driving around the streets in little beaver sedans and amassing armies of spider war-jets, right? Horribly, we're not too far from that reality, either.
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- By Jonathan Wojcik
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6 Personality Quirks You Didn't Know Were Medical Conditions
Your weird quirks don't make you a quirky snowflake. They make you a medical textbook entry.
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- By Andrew Martin
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The Science Behind Stupidly Hot Peppers [CHART]
The Scoville hotness scale ain't got shit on us.
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- By John Larwood
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The 5 Strangest Ways Your Mind Can Get Your Body Sick
The brain can fool the body into thinking it's sick, complete with physical symptoms. And we're not talking about bullshit symptoms like headaches, either.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes
f you or someone you know refuses to believe that organisms change over time without proof on a monkey-man level, here are some animals in the middle of getting their evolve on.
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- By Kristi Harrison
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6 Intimate Details You Can Tell Just By Looking At Someone
Experts say you can tell a whole lot of intimate details about a person just by looking at them. It's not magic and it's not 100 percent. But it is science.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Simon Bower
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The 8 Most Disgusting Animal Defenses
Mother Nature: Finding ways to give us nightmares since whenever.
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- By Ezekiel Buchheit, Crystal Beran
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10 Famous Unsolved Mysteries Easily Explained by Science
Science: Ruining campfire stories since 1625.
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- By Pauli Poisuo, M. Asher Cantrell
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5 Shocking Ways You Overestimate Yourself
Hate pictures of yourself? That's your brain telling you lies.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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5 Unexpected Downsides of High Intelligence
You know that phrase, 'Ignorance is bliss'? There's a reason it's stuck around all these years.
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- By Eddie Rodriguez
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6 Medication Side Effects Straight Out of a Horror Movie
Apparently there are some things even the commercials don't tell you. Not necessarily because the side effects are too terrifying (though some are), but simply because some of them sound more like ironic gypsy curses than anything science is capable of.
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- By Brian Thompson
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7 Simple Questions You Won't Believe Science Just Answered
One advantage of living in the information age is learning new things every day. Even more interesting is when we learn stuff that we thought we already knew but apparently didn't, like the fact that the sun is a sphere. Yep, science just found that out in February 2011. Next they're going to tell us that they just figured out whether the chicken o
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- By Kristi Harrison
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5 Bizarre Accidents That Helped Invent Modern Medicine
It turns out that some of the greatest discoveries in modern medicine didn't come about as a consequence of hundreds of dedicated doctors slaving away for hours in a lab. They occurred because people are often stupid, lazy, incompetent, unlucky or accident-prone.
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- By Tom Lagana
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The 6 Creepiest Things Hiding in Your DNA
We're all just one impulsive Google images search away from facing the unblinking darkness that lurks within the heart of man. But that black pit of twisted evil and decay shouldn't surprise anybody; it's rooted in our genetic makeup. Literally.
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- By C. Coville
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