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Jack O'Brien

I:
Am the Editor-in-Chief of Cracked.com.
Still laugh out loud at your article (that's me laughing out loud in my avatar).
Am a contributor to the micro-blogging site Twitter.com: https://twitter.com/jack_obrien

I have:
Two sisters and a wife who are cooler than me.
Two dogs and a wife who are all smaller than me.
A column on Cracked: http://www.cracked.com/blog/author/Jack+Obrien/

15 Movies Completely Changed From An Alternate Perspective

Most disaster movies make cannon fodder out of almost every single living person on the planet who isn't a president, a fighter pilot, or the one scientist who has the key to solving the alien/meteor/whatever problem.

Authors: By Daniel O'Brien, Adam Tod Brown, Soren Bowie, J.F. Sargent, Cody Johnston, Michael Swaim, Jack O'Brien, Katie Willert, Alex Schmidt, Tom Reimann
Published: January 04, 2016

What We Learned About What We Learned In 2015

As everything in the world becomes more interconnected and as the cost of recording and storing data sharply decreases, we've seen a steep rise in the importance of statistics.

Authors: By Jack O'Brien, Daniel O'Brien
Published: December 21, 2015

Why You Remember 'Star Wars' Incorrectly

Take a trip in your mind back to May 18th, 1999.

Authors: By Jason Pargin, Jack O'Brien
Published: December 14, 2015

Why All Your Favorite Movies Are About The Apocalypse

From 'Mad Max' to 'San Andreas' to 'The Avengers,' the most popular movies of our times are about how we fear our world will end.

Authors: By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt, Jack O'Brien
Published: December 13, 2015

How A Mathematician Made 160 Million Women Disappear

In 1863, German chemist Julius Wilbrand was trying to make yellow dye and what he came up with was trinitrotoluene, also known as TNT.

Authors: By Jack O'Brien, Kristi Harrison, Soren Bowie
Published: December 07, 2015

Why You May Live To 150 And Never Look Older Than 30

In Ron Howard's 1985 movie 'Cocoon,' a group of elderly people living in a Florida retirement community become magically rejuvenated by aliens.

Authors: By Jack O'Brien
Published: November 29, 2015

How Many Martys Had to Die In Back To The Future?

Going back all the way to our very first episode, one of the topics that we've discussed most on this podcast is the Flynn Effect: the inevitability that each generation will be smarter than the last.

Authors: By Soren Bowie, Jack O'Brien, Daniel O'Brien
Published: November 23, 2015

20 Movies That Would Be Better With One Simple Change

Search through the DVD extras of 'Back To The Future' and you'll come across one of the greatest what-ifs of movie history.

Authors: By Soren Bowie, Jack O'Brien, Daniel O'Brien
Published: November 16, 2015

How Science Is Making 'Inception' A Reality

Let's talk about 'Inception': Christopher Nolan's least realistic movie up until 'Interstellar'.

Authors: By Jack O'Brien
Published: November 15, 2015

Forgotten American Communities That Disappeared Overnight

America is great at gentrification.

Authors: By Alex Schmidt, Jack O'Brien, Adam Tod Brown
Published: November 09, 2015

Real Superpowers And New Human Senses

In the last few years 'Edge of Tomorrow' and 'Elysium' showed near-futures where soldiers weren't limited by their physical capabilities, but instead were enhanced by mech-suits.

Authors: By Jack O'Brien
Published: November 08, 2015

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.

Authors: By Jason Pargin, Jack O'Brien
Published: November 01, 2015

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.

Authors: By Jack O'Brien, Jason Pargin
Published: October 26, 2015

Inventions That It Took Humanity Way Too Long To Design

Screws, or at least some form of cylindrical fasteners, have been around since the 3rd century BC, and it wasn't until the 1500s that screws began to start appearing in what we now accept as their modern form.

Authors: By Alex Schmidt, Jack O'Brien, Tom Reimann
Published: October 19, 2015

Why White Supremacy Is On The Rise In The Modern World

Sometimes finding the presidential candidate that's right for you comes down to the endorsements.

Authors: By Adam Tod Brown, Robert Evans, Jack O'Brien
Published: October 12, 2015

Why The Old Disney Classics Aren't As Wholesome As You Think

Think about the Disney princesses of the 1930s, 40s and 50s and what they actually accomplished in their films.

Authors: By J.F. Sargent, Adam Tod Brown, Alex Schmidt, Jack O'Brien, Tom Reimann
Published: September 14, 2015

What The Golden Rule Gets Wrong About Human Psychology

Growing up we were taught to abide by the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Authors: By Alex Schmidt, Jack O'Brien, Jason Pargin
Published: August 31, 2015

Inexplicable Movie Tropes That Make No Sense

Our main bread and butter at Cracked is pointing out the little things in movies that either brainwash our society as a whole or are just simply so overused that they annoy the bloody hell out of us.

Authors: By Soren Bowie, Jack O'Brien, Cody Johnston, Michael Swaim, Daniel O'Brien
Published: August 24, 2015

Why It Took 30 Years For Cosby's Victims To Go Public

Over the last decade, the internet has brought into public light some of the great social injustices hiding just beneath the surface of what we thought we knew about our society...or specifically what white men thought they knew about society.

Authors: By Adam Tod Brown, Jack O'Brien
Published: August 17, 2015

Why Getting Away With Murder Is Easier Than You Think

Here's a potentially scary statistic: Of the 330 people freed by the Innocence Project, an organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted prisoners, 10% of them actually admitted to committing the crime they were innocent of.

Authors: By Jason Pargin, Jack O'Brien
Published: August 10, 2015

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