14 Photographs That Shatter Your Image of Famous People. #7.
Teenage Eminem With Alf Shirt and Birthday Cake Via Eminemworld.com I've linked to this picture, oh, seven or eight times in my career at Cracked, as it is my favorite celebrity photo of all time. I don't want to say that Eminem's claims of an impoverished life as an abused child aren't true -- I think everyone agrees that they are. To an extent. Still, brooding celebrities who build their career on their dark past do it at the risk of becoming caricatures.
. #6. Via Flavorwire.com ... it's still a shock to realize sometimes the man just sat down and ate an entire pizza like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. This is something everybody should understand about depression, by the way. Via Flavorwire.comThen later played "Cat Puppet" with his daughter while doing a high-pitched cat voice. Well, depression works that way. Then, ironically, if you start playing the role of the tortured artist later, you have to worry about the opposite -- being photographed in a moment of being goofy and carefree. 5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness. Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it.
There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know. But by no means should that stop us from tinkering around in there, using somewhat questionable and possibly dangerous techniques to make our brains do what we want. We can't vouch for any of these, either their effectiveness or safety. All we can say is that they sound awesome, since apparently you can make your brain... #5. So you just picked up the night shift at your local McDonald's, you have class every morning at 8am and you have no idea how you're going to make it through the day without looking like a guy straight out of Dawn of the Dead, minus the blood... hopefully.
"SLEEEEEEEEEP... uh... What if we told you there was a way to sleep for little more than two hours a day, and still feel more refreshed than taking a 12-hour siesta on a bed made entirely out of baby kitten fur? Holy Shit! 5 Horrific Ways Your Brain Can Turn On You Without Warning. 5 Ways Your Brain Is Messing With Your Head. We accept on a regular basis the premise that our minds are being screwed with.
Advertisers, politicians, magicians; we accept that they know the tricks to pull the wool over our eyes. But as it turns out, the ways in which your head is being truly and royally messed with the most, are coming from inside. Please be advised that your brain does not want you reading the following list, and may kill you to protect its secrets.
These include... #5. What is it? It's your inability to notice changes that happen right in front of you, even if they're hugely obvious... as long as you don't see the actual change take place. Um, What? Consider Alfonso Ribeiro. Now, if suddenly that image of Carlton blinked and changed to a different image, you'd notice it. In fact, if the entire text of this article--and the whole color and layout of this website--changed while you were gone, you probably wouldn't notice. A scientist named George McConkie started working on this in the 70s. . #4. 5 Terrifying Secrets About Riding in an Ambulance. You will probably never have a good encounter with an ambulance.
Either they're shrieking past in traffic and making you late for work, or you're riding in one while blood squirts from a horrific fireworks injury. Well, we have bad news: The world of ambulances, and the long-suffering crews who work inside them, is quite a bit more horrifying than you thought. #5. Ambulances Tend to Explode. 5 Sci-Fi Dystopias We've Actually Created (For Animals)
One of our favorite topics here is ways that science fiction is slowly becoming a reality.
Most of those articles are about the slippery slope that our society is heading down as we're gradually inundated with weird technologies, bizarre weapons or disconcerting experiments that inch us ever closer to some totally absurd sci-fi dystopia. But if you shift your perspective a little bit, you might find that the far-flung science fiction worlds we've been watching for on the horizon have actually been here all along -- it's just that they're not happening to us. They're happening to the animals. #5. Universe 25 Cabinet Magazine Let's set the scene: A brilliant, eccentric scientist devotes his life to refining the perfect society. If it sounds too good to be true, it's not: John B.
But it wasn't that big a deal; they were just a bunch of stupid mice, after all. Universe 25 was a 101-square-inch tank, carefully engineered to safely and comfortably hold over 1,000 mice. 6 Mind Blowing Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI. Computer generated images are like the foam sets of the present era: 20 years from now, people are going to laugh their asses off at the fact that this stuff looked even remotely real to us.
That's why, as we've mentioned before, there are still filmmakers doing special effects the old-fashioned way -- even if the results are so impressive that you'd never know it's not CGI. There's CGI in Cracked's new Adventures in Jedi School mini-series, but the humor is all a practical effect. #6. Inception -- The Dream Collapsing Inception is one of those movies that could have easily gotten away with doing every single special effect in CGI, because it's full of so many insane moments that we assume half the things in it are computer generated anyway (for example, there's no evidence that Ken Watanabe is a real person).
Water: Leonardo DiCaprio's Natural Enemy Since 1997. "Finally, I can pee in public and no one will know! " Meanwhile, four exceptionally heavy sleepers rest inside a flying van.