Cracked Archive - Science
4 Bad Foods We Can Move on From in the Modern World
Your watch has ended, Cheerios. It’s time to hang the box from the rafters
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23 Why We Like to Think the Bad Boy Has a Heart of Gold
As the saying goes, ‘It's what’s on the inside that counts’ — and a new study has found that those words never ring more true than when a bad boy is involved
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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The Monty Python ‘Silly Walk’ Is Actually Great Exercise, A Very Serious Study Finds
You don’t have to do anything other than change your normal gait to something as ridiculous as a Python sketch to burn some major calories
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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Why You Just Ate An Entire Bag of Potato Chips, According to Genetics
It’s not your fault — it’s these stupid neurons in your brain that are basically forcing you to finish that family-size bag during a single commercial break
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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This Toilet Wants to Record Ever Sound You Make on It
It’s for the public good and to stop cholera, okay?
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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Your Doctor Doesn’t Even Follow Medication Instructions
A new study shows that your physician is actually worse than you are at reading all of the fine print on pill bottles
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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5 Other Global Catastrophes to Worry About If We Fix Climate Change
Even if we grow the icecaps back, we basically just sit around and wait to get murked by a meteorite
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- By Eli Yudin
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Here’s How You Learn to Be Fearless, You Coward
A new study indicates that even the most terrified among us aren’t doomed to a lifetime of despair after all
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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4 of the Wildest Contingency Plans the Government Has Cooked Up
We simply block out the sun, and the globe CAN’T be warmed
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Real-Life Horrors About Your Favorite Cartoon Characters
Mickey Mouse’s ears are almost certainly overflowing with mites and bloody from his own self-mutilation
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Absolute Units of Normally Tiny Animals
I don’t think those fish-food flakes are going to cut it
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- By Eli Yudin
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Potatoes Are Secretly Very, Very Poisonous
It’s safe right now, but the poison is just itching to reveal itself
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Ways the U.S. Government Is Obsessed With Poop
Get your mind out of the gutter, government!
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- By Eli Yudin
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Actually, Gravity Is Giving You Diarrhea
It seems to put you way too down in the dumps
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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No F—ing Way: No Matter Where You Travel in the World, Swear Words Sound the Same
Turns out you don’t need a translator for ‘dumbass tourist’
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- By Lauren Vinopal
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