Cracked Archive - Science
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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698 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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6 Eerily Specific Inventions Predicted in Science Fiction
Science fiction has had some stunningly accurate premonitions. And we're not talking about broad predictions, here. No, this stuff is impressively accurate.
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- By Colin Murdock
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5 Ways Stores Use Science to Trick You Into Buying Crap
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.
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- By Paul K Pickett
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6 Statistically Full of S#!t Dangers The Media Loves to Hype
It seems like we decide what we are going to be afraid of by drawing randomly from a hat.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell
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5 Insane Ways Words Can Control Your Mind
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.
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- By Sam Cooper, CRACKED Staff
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The Creepy Scientific Explanation Behind Ghost Sightings
Science 1. Ghosts 0. Creepiness 100,000.
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- By Jack Mendoza
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5 Creepy Ways Animal Societies Are Organizing
Animals a pretty amazing, sure, but now we're at the point where they are too amazing. And that's unsettling.
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- By Sam Cooper, Shelby Fero
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6 Habits You Didn't Know Were Keeping You Alive
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.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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6 Things That Are Secretly Turning You Into A Bad Person
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.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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