Double Crossed
The rise and fall of CrossFit’s science crusader.
The rise and fall of CrossFit’s science crusader.
Stephanie M. Lee Buzzfeed Jun 2018 20min Permalink
The singer is more uncompromising than ever.
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Jun 2018 20min Permalink
The inside story of how an Ivy League food scientist turned shoddy data into viral studies.
Stephanie M. Lee Buzzfeed Feb 2018 15min Permalink
Students come from around the world to struggling Redding, California, where the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry promises to teach them to perform miracles.
Molly Hensley-Clancy Buzzfeed Oct 2017 35min Permalink
ShyShy Pate has been missing for 19 years, but you’ve probably never heard of her.
Jessica Testa Buzzfeed Jul 2017 20min Permalink
"There is a real danger here that this maneuver can harshly backfire, to the great benefit of Trump and to the great detriment of those who want to oppose him."
Glenn Greenwald The Intercept Jan 2017 10min Permalink
A trip to the writers’ room of The Onion spinoff, which started as a BuzzFeed parody but has morphed into something else: “the institutional voice of the Internet.”
Inside BuzzFeed’s adorable animal machine.
Zach Baron GQ Mar 2014 20min Permalink
How the website mastered “Social Publishing”:
To understand some of the principles underlying BuzzFeed’s strategy, he recommends reading The Individual in a Social World, a 1977 book by Stanley Milgram, who is known, among other things, for his experiments leading to the six degrees of separation theory. “When some cute kitten video goes viral,” says [Jonah] Peretti, “you know a Stanley Milgram experiment is happening thousands of times a day.”
Felix Gillette Businessweek Mar 2012 15min Permalink