5 Wildly Popular Car Modifications That Must Be Stopped. The 7 Most Insane Street Legal Vehicles Ever (Part 3) Every breakthrough in modern transportation, from the first airplane to the first hybrid car, was forged by a combination of genius, determination, and imagination.
However, for every Orville and Wilbur Wright trying to achieve immortal greatness and propel mankind into the future, there is a John DeLorean who just wants to get his cocaine-fueled hallucination out onto the road so he can afford to buy even more cocaine. The following are all examples of that second type of self-indulgent craftsman, the kind of people who look at a perfectly good automobile and/or piece of furniture and say, "What if I stuck six engines and a pair of wings on that son of a bitch? " (The first car was invented before the American Revolution. Find even more modern inventions our snuff-addicted ancestors came up with first in The De-Textbook.) #7.
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Literacy Is at an All-Time High Hemera Technologies/Photos.com Seriously, who the hell reads anymore? Go break into a random teenager's room and you won't expect to see a single book, right up until the moment the SWAT team hauls you away. The kids these days always have their hands full with an iPhone, an iPad, or a game controller. The Good The Bad and the Ugly of Video Games [COMIC] 6 Bizarre Things That Make Your Memory Worse Than You Think.
Memory is the Konami LaserScope to our Nintendo brain -- it has the potential to be awesome, yet turns out unwieldy and kind of retarded.
Any time we try to use our internal Google, our mighty blob of think mulch turns into a grumpy gnome, running around the skull cavity and frantically digging in file cabinets for that ever-missing folder labeled "Where the hell did I put those [dress shoes/shot glasses/assless chaps]? " Although the finer workings of our memory bones are still surprisingly ill-understood by brainologists, what they have managed to uncover so far indicates that our rememberin' bits are mainly held together with the neuropsychological equivalent of duct tape and a prayer. On the bright side, this offers us plenty of scientific excuses for forgetting our cousin's birthday. #6. Your Memory Depends on the Weather kwasny221/iStock/Getty Images There's a reason the ability to control weather is such a popular pop culture trope. 5 Mind-Blowing Scientific Answers to Life's 'Big Questions'
At some point in your life you have, at some completely random moment, stopped what you were doing and just thought, "Man, what am I doing here?
How does any of this even exist? What is reality, anyway? " Then you usually forget about it and go back to playing browser games until lunchtime rolls around. But those big questions, starting with the nature of the universe and leading all the way up to why you're sitting there reading boner jokes on a website, are being answered by science as we speak. 5 Beliefs About Surviving a Disaster (That Can Kill You) If you read the news, you'll know that humans are constantly running into things that put their lives in danger: crime, natural disasters, ill-advised riding-mower volleyball games.
5 Reasons Christmas Is the Most Dangerous Time of the Year. We've mentioned before that Christmas is the deadliest day of the year, but what is even more surprising is the variety of ways that this most joyous of holidays is affecting your health for the worse.
In fact, every single part of the holiday season seems to come together in an attempt to mess with your physical and mental well-being. #5. Christmas Trees Are Biohazards Photos.com. 6 'Wuss' Behaviors That Were Once Badass Survival Instincts. Usually, when we think of "survival of the fittest," we think about the survival of the biggest, strongest, fastest or smartest.
But actually, in evolutionary terms, the "fittest" is just the animal or plant best suited for the circumstances, whether that animal is a lizard uniquely suited for the desert or a Golden Retriever with an uncanny but heartwarming knack for basketball. But you're pretty smart, so you probably knew that already. 5 Seemingly Insignificant Things That Make People Like You. 6 Mind-Blowing Substances That Laugh in the Face of Physics. We can laugh at our ancestors who thought gunpowder was sorcery, or rappers who don't understand what magnets are.
But we're telling you right now, there are materials created by science that absolutely look like fucking witchcraft. These materials are often hard to get and/or incredibly dangerous, but they're worth it for the cool factor alone. #6. Gallium, the Metal That Melts in Your Hand Gajitz Sure, everybody knows there's such a thing as liquid metal (mercury, duh) and that all metal will melt if you get it hot enough. 6 Substances That Wipe Their Ass With the Laws of Physics. 4 Insane Ways People Are Spending Money on the Xbox One. Being a gamer is getting more expensive with every generation, what with all the subscriptions, peripherals, and unsatisfying downloadable content you just have to get (if only to complain about it online).
But apparently some gamers decided that the Xbox One's $500 price tag wasn't steep enough and set about finding ridiculous ways to burn more cash on the console, such as ... #4. 5 Mind-Blowing Ways People Mastered Famous Video Games. Video games are one of the most enduring wastes of time out there, but what happens when you master a game so thoroughly that it no longer poses a challenge?
There's no DLC coming, you've gotten every achievement, and hardcore mode insults you with its pedestrian concepts of difficulty. Well, most people find a new game or maybe go outside, but a few hardcore gamers said: "Screw this; I'll just make it so insanely hard on myself that the basic structure of the game no longer applies and we stumble screaming into the realm of madness. " And lo, they did ... #5. 6 Disturbing Trends That Might Ruin the Internet Forever. There was a time when no one took the Internet seriously. Gangs of anonymous hooligans could crash websites and swarm online games to their hearts' content.
The FBI barely had a website, let alone the ability to arrest 4channers. Cracked was still a print magazine, and America's insatiable desire for dick jokes was met by a vast array of crude Angelfire websites dense with hit counters and various browser-sodomizing embedded GIFs. Click this link and hate everything. The Internet is taking its first baby steps toward respectability, it's true, but it still has a lot of growing up to do before it graduates from "insufferable little shit" to "joyless productive adult.
" (When the Internet dies, you'll need published evidence of the truths your teachers failed to mention. Cases in point: #6. The 5 Most Hilarious Abuses of Video Game Glitches. There are two types of gamers: Those who pick up a game and immediately think, "I will not quit until I have emerged victorious in this grand quest! " and those who think, "I will not quit until I find a glitch that will let me fill this fucking castle with watermelons. " Actually, I suppose most of us start out as the first one and become the second after we get bored enough. My point is, video game glitches have become the canvas onto which smart-asses create masterpieces. The 8 Creepiest Glitches Hidden in Popular Video Games.
We've told you about the creepiest video game Easter eggs ever found. But Easter eggs are hidden details that someone intentionally put there to mess with you -- their horror is still limited by the human imagination. 5 Basic Things You Won't Believe Science Can't Explain.