Cracked Archive - Science

6 Fitness Tips Everyone's Heard (That Don't Work at All)
According to countless self-proclaimed fitness experts, apparently there is only one way to avoid obesity and early death: their way.
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Killer Whale: Biggest Badass in the Animal Kingdom [CHART]
Land sharks are funny. Until you realize that killer whales can do that.
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- By John Larwood
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10 Animals You Won't Believe Are Closely Related
Here are a few critters that took a much weirder evolutionary path than you might at first expect.
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- By CRACKED Staff, Juniper Russo
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The 8 Most Terrifying Diets in the Animal Kingdom
Animals eat insects, and their own poop, and their own children. So what in the hell could qualify as a weird diet in the animal kingdom? Trust us, it gets weirder.
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6 Real World Jedi Mind Tricks Salesmen Are Using On You
We've all been there: You go in for a new cell phone battery, then one of the salesmen walks up, and next thing you know you're walking out of there with every iWhatever they had in stock. Once the new gadget smell and irresponsibility high wear off, you're left wondering: How the hell did they do that?
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6 Diet Fads For People Who Will Try Anything Except Exercise
In a landscape littered with unscientific and downright stupid weight loss products, it takes something extra stupid to get our attention. Fortunately, weight loss is a big business, and some of the products on the market today seem purely intended to find out how far they can go before we call bullshit.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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7 Useful Genetic Experiments That Are Creepy As Hell
There's something weird about dicking around with the building blocks of life. To help set your mind at ease, here are some of the most baffling and bizarre experiments going on right now.
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- By Fletcher Wortmann
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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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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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