Jason Pargin
I am the Executive Editor of Cracked.com and NYT bestselling author David Wong, which is the pseudonym of a real person named Jason Pargin.
Stupid Lies From Pop Culture That Everybody Believes
We all know Rome wasn't built in a day.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Jason Pargin, Jack O'Brien
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The Evolutionary Case For Religion And Schizophrenia
Are you ever so overwhelmed by the thought of going out to socialize that you just stay home instead?
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- By Jason Pargin, Jack O'Brien
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Why Science Is Still Mystified About How Humans Work
Everything you know is wrong and science is B.S.
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- By Jason Pargin, Scott Laffey
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The Baffling Stories Behind Our Epidemic Of Mass Killers
Don't tell me the attacks are 'inexplicable.' Anything can be explained.
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- By Jason Pargin
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How Your Brain Warps Everything You See & Hear
There are parts of our daily lives that we just take for granted as being normal, but science proves us wrong.
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- By Jack O'Brien, Jason Pargin
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Why Anxiety Is The Plague Of The Modern World
Your anxiety is like black gold for society -- full of your tears, your stress, and your fears.
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- By Jason Pargin
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5 Movie And TV Plots That Mean The Writer's Out Of Ideas
It's bizarre that these clearly doomed ideas made it into our favorite shows and movies.
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- By Jason Pargin
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Why Humans Are So Easy To Predict And Manipulate
If you're afraid big corporations will one day try to beam ideas directly into your mind, too late.
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- By Jason Pargin, Jack O'Brien
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America's Secret Caste System
We tend to think of the class system as money thing.
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- By Jack O'Brien, Jason Pargin
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10 Simple Facts To Make You Feel Better About This Election
To prevent all of us from having a rage stroke between now and November, I decided to make a quick guide to help center us during these turdulent times.
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- By Jason Pargin
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Why Donald Trump's Rise Proves Americans Are Narcissists
If you go back one hundred or even fifty years ago to ask kids what they wanted when they grew up, they'd say they wanted to have families and to have good jobs.
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- By Jason Pargin, Jack O'Brien
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7 Ways You Can Accidentally Become A Social Outcast
This goes out both to those who've been to that dark place (or, you know, are still there) and those who struggle to understand them.
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- By Jason Pargin
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10 Expressions So Misused They're Meaningless
Remember when memes actually made sense and weren't just screencaps of Minions with text like, 'Obama: You Only Had One Job!'
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- By J.F. Sargent, Jason Pargin, Jack O'Brien
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Why You Remember 'Star Wars' Incorrectly
Take a trip in your mind back to May 18th, 1999.
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- By Jason Pargin, Jack O'Brien
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5 Things 'Star Wars' Fans Don't Understand About 'Star Wars'
Star Wars fandom is a lot like believing in Santa Claus -- the more you dig into it, the uglier it looks, until eventually it ... isn't.
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- By Jason Pargin
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9 Things Readers Hate About Cracked (Explained)
With such favorites as: 'Why is content so political all of the sudden? Is it because your organization is a big evil pile of turd?'
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- By Jason Pargin
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5 Harsh Truths That Will Make You Less Of A Jerk
Humanity is primarily defined by its inability to grasp the obvious. And it bites us in the proverbial ass way more often than we realize.
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- By Jason Pargin
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What Zombie Movies Get Right About Real Pandemics
Last year's worldwide Ebola outbreak brought into harsh reality the kind of imagery we typically only see in movies like 'Outbreak' or 'Contagion': the faceless officials in hazmat suits, the quarantine tents, the sudden fear of anyone who sneezes on an airplane.
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- By Jason Pargin, Jack O'Brien
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12 Real Life Horror Stories Creepier Than Any Movie
Last year we covered in a podcast how truth is stranger and often scarier than fiction, especially when it comes to the history genre.
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- By Jack O'Brien, Jason Pargin
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5 Shocking Ways The World Is About To Change
The thought of eating bugs might gross/freak/flip you out, but chances are you're doing it already and just don't know it.
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- By Jason Pargin
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