Cracked Archive - Science
6 Important Things You Didn't Know We're Running Out Of
There are resources other than oil that are key to running to society. And we're running out of them. So much so we might end up killing our neighbors to get a hold of them.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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1728 5 Personality Flaws That Science Will Cure in Our Lifetime
At least half of the bad people in the world avoid trying to change because they insist nothing is their fault. It's all due to their childhood, or their genes -- their temper, their weight, their bad habits -- all of it is outside of their control. It's bullshit, right? Well ... not entirely.
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- By Dennis Hong
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6 Things That Annoy You Every Day (Explained by Science)
It turns out that a lot of the things that annoy us about daily existence are just inevitable parts of larger systems and smaller systems that can be just as easily explained away by science.
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- By C. Coville
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7 Life Altering Decisions Made For You (Before Your Birth)
FYI: This is just another care package of horrors mailed directly to your brain from the scientific community.
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- By Sam Cooper
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5 Sci-Fi Apocalypses The Government Is Actually Planning For
There are entire real government programs devoted solely to thinking up ways to counter weather-themed supervillains and other outlandish threats normally relegated to the realm of science fiction.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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6 Weird Things That Influence Bad Behavior More Than Laws
Our surroundings can trick us into being generous, good people. Of course, it goes the other way, too ...
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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8 Terrifying Animal Swarms Created by Human Stupidity
Animals aren't extremely ambitious. Sometimes, however, all they need is a little helpful prodding in the right direction to start conquering everything around them like warlords.
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- By Danny Vittore, Karl Smallwood
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6 Ways the Cracked Book Makes Your Xmas Gifts Look Like Shit
With our book on shelves, and your closet full of gifts you'll never actually use, we are running down the Top Christmas Gifts of 2010, and explaining whether they're worth keeping.
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- By CRACKED Staff
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6 Amazingly Intelligent Animals (That Will Creep You Out)
Thinking is what makes us human, and thinking means we'll always be the ruling species in this planet, because the rest of those guys are really stupid. Well ... not all of them.
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- By Sam Blitz
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6 Animals Humanity Accidentally Made Way Scarier
They're coming for us, and it's our own damn fault.
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- By C. Coville
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The 6 Most Horrifying Ways Hospitals Can Kill You
DO NOT BE AFRAID TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL IF YOU ARE SICK. Nothing you will read in this article is suggesting that it's just better to nurse your horrible infection back to health in the comfort of your own garage.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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6 Bizarre Ways Architecture Is Designed to Ward Off Ghosts
When designing a building, you have to account for things like terrain, materials, weather, handicapped accessibility and, of course, ghosts.
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- By Christina H
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6 New Weapons That Are Making War Look Like a Cartoon
When we see the prototypes theseweapons designers are testing, we realize the battlefield of the future will be utterly insane.
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- By Danny Vittore
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6 Random Things (Other Than Drugs) That Reduce Pain
Your nearest drugstore is full of completely fake pain remedies, from shoe magnets to magical ground-up shark bones. But while these new age medicines are little more than placebos, science has found a whole lot of unexpected -- and downright weird -- ways you can control pain without ever swallowing a pill.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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The 6 Ballsiest Inventors Of All Time
To be a good scientist, it takes intelligence and creativity and years of study. To be a great scientist, you need to be just a little bit crazy.
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- By Jack Mendoza
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