Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Mental Illness
Mental health is an astronomically vast and complex issue with wildly varying degrees of severity. Our current system can't even begin to tackle the library-length definitions because we're still fumbling around at the most basic levels.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- January 30, 2014
The 5 Most Useless Pieces of Advice Everyone Gives
It turns out that humans are pretty bad at talking to each other.
- By David Wong
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- January 28, 2014
5 Organizations That Gamed the System and Screwed the Public
Nobody likes being scammed. Nobody working for these companies gave a shit about that.
- By A.C. Grimes
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- January 27, 2014
Help! We're Losing All Our Writers to Fame and Fortune
We want to give you money to write for us. Seriously.
- By David Wong
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- January 26, 2014
3 Reasons You Shouldn't Shame Your Kids on the Internet
As someone who has spent a little over a decade immersed in both parenting and the Internet, I know they don't go together.
- By Gladstone
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- January 25, 2014
5 Ways Life in Iran Is Nothing Like You Think
- By Eric Yosomono, Lloyd George
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- January 24, 2014
4 Exaggerated Dangers Everyone Loves to Hype
As terrifying as the daily grind can be, some of the hot-button, fashionable bogeymen are a lot less scary than you've been told.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- January 23, 2014
5 Ways Your Brain Is Turning You into a Jerk
We've said it before and we'll say it again: Your brain loves to screw around with you.
- By Pauli Poisuo
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- January 22, 2014
Advice for a Man Trapped in the Near-Term Future
According to my advice-dealing instruments, you are communicating to me from some point in the future. Let's begin.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- January 21, 2014
4 Ways We're Programmed to Think Women Aren't Funny
While women are just as funny as men, there are some scientific reasons behind why you think they aren't.
- By Kathy Benjamin
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- January 21, 2014
5 Ways Growing Up Inside Scientology Was a Nightmare
We were normal, working class Scientologists. And our lives were terrifying nightmares.
- By Robert Evans, Anonymous
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- January 21, 2014
5 Animals That Refuse to Play by the Rules of Evolution
Some animals raise a middle finger (or claw, or tentacle) to stereotypes and flip our world upside down.
- By Dyl Moore, Ed Stevens, Ryan Menezes, Sativa Savant
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- January 20, 2014
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