Paul K Pickett
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Why The Length Of Your Fingers Dictate Who You Are
You probably don't give much thought to how important your fingers are.
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- By Jay Thomas, Kathy Benjamin, Paul K Pickett
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5 'Sucker' Behaviors That Secretly Give You an Advantage
Science can tell you the physics of how light behaves around the event horizon of a black hole, but it doesn't tell you how not to be a total dickhead. Or at least, it didn't used to.
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- By Paul K Pickett
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6 Creepy Brainwashing Techniques You Can Use Today
The human brain is an odd, glitchy machine that is influenced in all sorts of weird ways you never thought of.
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- By Paul K Pickett, Lesia Pickett
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6 Awesome Stories of Bystanders Becoming Heroes
Let's once again stop and salute the nobodies who stepped up in the face of disaster when no one else would.
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- By Paul K Pickett
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5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Become Instantly Smarter
e don't guarantee that these will work for you -- all we can say is that smarter people than us have gotten them to work under scientifically controlled conditions.
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- By Paul K Pickett, Erik Carrera, David Rose
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5 Ways Superman Is Shockingly Realistic According to Science
Apparently, there are parts of Superman's character that may seem random or even stupid to you, but offer surprising benefits, according to science.
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- By Paul K Pickett
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6 Nobodies Who Turned Into Superheroes Without Warning
Next time someone tells you to get a hobby, might we suggest stopping suicides?
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- By Paul K Pickett
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5 Insignificant Things That Determine Who You Have Sex With
Turns out there are even more things that get people to consider knowing us in the biblical way, and they're so subtle and random that pants-wearing just seems stupid now.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Paul K Pickett
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6 Scary Tricks That Amazed Us As Kids (Explained By Science)
Demons don't cause Ouija boards to work and demons certainly didn't cause you to wet your pants.
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- By Paul K Pickett, M. Asher Cantrell
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The 5 Most Epic Battles of Will That Would Not End
Let's take a moment to salute the athletes, politicians and warriors who kept up a fight long after a reasonable person would have said, 'Fine, you win.'
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- By CRACKED Staff, Paul K Pickett
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6 People Who Had No Clue Their Faces Were World-Famous
Imagine that your face has been famous for years or decades, and you never had any idea. This happens -- people have found out that completely without their knowledge, they've become icons.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Paul K Pickett
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9 Acts of Vigilantism Straight Out of a Comic Book
Forget about the Justice League or the X-Men: If the awesome people in this article joined together into a supergroup, they could kick more ass than every comic book superhero team combined.
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- By Paul K Pickett, Karl Smallwood
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6 New Anti-Pervert Technologies (We Really Shouldn't Need)
Technology is really only there to help people put their dongs into other people, or to prevent others from getting unwanted dongs put into them. This eternal technological sex conflict is called the Great Pervert War, and here are the latest weapons on both sides.
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- By Mark M., Paul K Pickett
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5 Scientific Reasons The Dark Side Will Always Win
Darth Vader and his underlings apparently planned every last subtle detail, right down to the color of the spaceships and Vader's own robot voice, according to what science says works.
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- By Paul K Pickett, Trevor J Pickett
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5 Creepy Ways Humans Are Plunging Into the Uncanny Valley
What is the uncanny valley? Something that's horrifying and happening right now.
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- By Paul K Pickett
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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 Insane True Stories Too Awesome for a Chuck Norris Movie
Any loser can disarm a villain with a fist, machete or well-crafted joke. But it takes a real MacGyver to disarm an opponent with nothing but his wits, fast reflexes and a rabid puppy.
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- By Paul K Pickett, Karl Smallwood
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Martial Arts Movies Ever
Why do some filmmakers try to turn their kung fu masterpiece into something more? Apparently to make us lose our shit laughing.
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- By Paul K Pickett
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5 People Who Turned Awful Disabilities Into Superpowers
These folks not only didn't let horrific injuries and life destroying disabilities get them down, they actually turned them into superpowers.
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- By Paul K Pickett, Colin Murdock
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5 Bitter Truths About Chocolate
While we'd like to continue to believe that chocolate comes from a purple-garbed man in a whimsical factory, the real chocolate world is far darker and far harder than we ever would have thought. Though the general disregard for children is about the same.
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- By Paul K Pickett
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