Cracked Archive - Science
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.
- By Kathy Benjamin
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- December 04, 2010
Use a highlighter to color words in your books. This will make it feel like you're actually studying. Actually studying involves reading the words, which is also good, but much more time consuming, and frankly discriminatory against people who don't want to read.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- November 30, 2010
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.
- By Jack Mendoza
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- November 26, 2010
Fortunately, environmentalism is a double-headed monster and I'm allowed to choose which head I follow: one is the true conservationist which we all must tolerate, and the other is the affluent and bored elitist in need of a conspicuously righteous hobby. The latter is more my speed.
- By Soren Bowie
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- November 22, 2010
Science fiction has had some stunningly accurate premonitions. And we're not talking about broad predictions, here. No, this stuff is impressively accurate.
- By Colin Murdock
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- November 19, 2010
A big chunk of the world economy runs on human weakness. Peer pressure, vanity, insecurity, the fact that we just cannot resist the sight of melted cheese. There are some other, much weirder scientific principles that factor into what you buy. You might not know about them, but the people selling you things sure as hell do.
- By Paul K Pickett
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- November 15, 2010
It seems like we decide what we are going to be afraid of by drawing randomly from a hat.
- By M. Asher Cantrell
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- November 12, 2010
While we tend to think words are just sounds we make to express ideas, science is finding language is more like a fun house mirror, warping what we see in mind-blowing ways.
- By Sam Cooper, CRACKED Staff
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- November 02, 2010
Science 1. Ghosts 0. Creepiness 100,000.
- By Jack Mendoza
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- October 26, 2010
Animals a pretty amazing, sure, but now we're at the point where they are too amazing. And that's unsettling.
- By Sam Cooper, Shelby Fero
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- October 17, 2010
In a twist of fate so beautiful you want to make passionate love to it on the couch with the blinds open, science is now claiming that the most seemingly innocent things you do (or did) on a daily basis can be just as good for you as a lifetime of exercise and carrot juice.
- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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- October 14, 2010
While most of us do what we can to lead a morally sound existence, some completely unexpected factors can turn us from mild mannered to extremely dickish in no time.
- By Kathy Benjamin
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- October 12, 2010
For all my zombie slaughter, I spend an equal amount of time inventing new ways to curse at the game.
- By Seanbaby
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- October 07, 2010
Why let animals enjoy a natural buzz, when science is more than willing to step in and take that high to new hilarious, bizarre, kind of mean-spirited heights?
- By Robert Brockway
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- September 30, 2010
When women claim they're misunderstood, they're not kidding.
- By Dave Easton
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- September 29, 2010
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