Cracked Archive - Science
7 Theories on Time That Would Make Doc Brown's Head Explode
There are a few things in this world that we can always rely on as constants: The sun will always rise and time will inevitably march forward. Except that the sun doesn't rise and time ... well, time is tricky, too.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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1946 6 Counterintuitive Tricks to Beating Popular Game Shows
Deal or No Deal went to great lengths to hide the fact there was a simple equation behind the whole thing.
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- By Matt Culkin, Michael Voll
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7 Reasons Ants Will Inherit the Earth
When the empires of men finally fall and the memory of our hubris has faded to dust, ants will still be here, running shit.
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- By Monte Richard
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6 Real People With Mind-Blowing Mutant Superpowers: Update
We've all dreamed of having superpowers at some point (today), and these are the rare cases where people actually got them.
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- By Karl Smallwood, Kier Harris
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5 Reasons Rats Are Way Scarier Than You Think
Rats are kind of creepy and gross, but they're not all that bad, right? Wrong.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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8 Humans Whose Eating Habits Would Make a Goat Puke
Lots of people have their own personal diet plans, and nutritionists don't always agree on which one is best. Nutritionists do agree that everything on this list is a bad idea.
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- By Pauli Poisuo, Elliot Crossan , Karl Smallwood
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5 Seemingly Innocent Ways You've Screwed The World Today
Maybe you hippies are on to something -- a huge chunk of the damage we're doing to the world is due to things you probably didn't even know you were doing.
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- By Robert Evans, Budd Erickson
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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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- By Jesse Clark, Pete Griffin
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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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- By Nathan R. Carlsen
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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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