This week for BuzzFeed News, Katie Heaney shadows a group of mortuary science students and contemplates the uncertain future of the death industry. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed and around the web. 1. Can the Next Generation of Morticians Breathe Life Into the Death Industry? — BuzzFeed News View this image […]
This week, we profile four women who are fighting for feminist change within their conservative religions: Orthodox Judaism, Mormonism, Catholicism, and Islam. Read that series and these other great stories from around BuzzFeed and the web. 1. Feminism in Faith: Four Women Who Are Revolutionizing Organized Religion — BuzzFeed View this image › “Why bother? […]
This week for BuzzFeed News, Anne Helen Petersen unpacks the imminent self-tracking revolution. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed and around the web. 1. Big Mother Is Watching You — BuzzFeed News View this image › Photograph by Jon Premosch for BuzzFeed If you keep your fitness-related New Year’s resolutions in 2015, […]
This week for BuzzFeed, Gregory D. Johnsen traces whether and how the U.S. is paying blood money to families of drone strike victims. Read that and these other stories from BuzzFeed and around the web. 1. Nothing Says “Sorry Our Drones Hit Your Wedding Party” Like $800,000 And Some Guns — BuzzFeed View this image […]
This week for BuzzReads, Julie Ruvolo explains how Brazil became the social media capital of the world — and the effect this has on that society. Read that and these other great stories from around BuzzFeed and the web. 1. Why Brazil Is Actually Winning the Internet — BuzzFeed View this image › BuzzFeed As […]
This week for BuzzFeed, Alex Campbell investigates laws that imprison battered women whose partners have killed their children. Read that and these other stories from BuzzFeed and around the web. 1. How The Law Turns Battered Women Into Criminals — BuzzFeed View this image › Photograph by Melanie Buford for The Dallas Morning News Arlena […]
Let these #longreads keep you company while the blizzard hits. 1. Empire of Ice — GQ View this image › Lucas Jackson / Reuters / Reuters Jeanne-Marie Laskas reports from a $500 million man-made island off the coast of Alaska, where oil workers toil in round-the-clock darkness and temperatures around 45 below. Read it at […]
This week for BuzzReads, Nicole Pasulka profiles a transgender woman who sued the D.C. police. Read that and these other stories from around BuzzFeed and the web. 1. The Woman Who Helped Change How Police Treat Transgender People — BuzzFeed View this image › BuzzFeed After D.C. resident Patti Hammond Shaw was arrested, she claimed […]
This week for BuzzReads, Amanda Petrusich explores why astrology is gaining popularity. Read that and these other great stories from around BuzzFeed and web. 1. Is It Time For Us To Take Astrology Seriously? — BuzzFeed View this image › Illustration by Justine Zwiebel for BuzzFeed In an April marked by angry eclipses portending unexpected […]
This week for BuzzReads, Tim Stelloh and Freda Moon investigate a real estate deal gone very wrong on the isolated coast of Nicaragua. Read that and these other great stories. 1. Murder and Manifest Destiny on the Mosquito Coast — BuzzFeed View this image › Freda Moon for BuzzFeed Fifteen years ago, a mysterious Greek […]