Body on the Moor

In December 2015, a man was found dead in Saddleworth Moor in Northern England. Six months later, detectives have yet to identify him. Who is he — and why did he travel 200 miles to die there?

Author: Jon Manel
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Published: Jun 7, 2016
Length: 13 minutes (3,474 words)

Blindsided: A Dream Engagement Turned Nightmare

Don Huckstep thought he’d found love. But when his fiancee Teri Deneka vanished after a mysterious text, her disappearance led him, police, and another family down a strange path of discoveries.

Author: Mary Milz
Published: May 31, 2016
Length: 22 minutes (5,563 words)

What Ever Happened to ‘The Most Liberated Woman in America’?

Barbara Williamson co-founded one of the most famous radical sex experiments in America. Then she got wild.

Author: Alex Mar
Source: Atlas Obscura
Published: Jun 7, 2016
Length: 27 minutes (6,812 words)

How Kids Learn Resilience

Unable to the close the achievement gap between low-income and more well-off students, academic researchers are studying the influence that certain noncognitive abilities, or character traits, including self-control, resilience, grit and optimism, have on academic success.

Author: Paul Tough
Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jun 7, 2016
Length: 30 minutes (7,567 words)

The History of Pho

For a country with over 3,500 years of history, Vietnam’s famous noodle soup is fairly new, but in its short life, phō has gone beyond nourishment and woven itself into art, political protest, the national identity and grounding for the Vietnamese Diaspora. Andrea Nguyen examines its influence and origins.

Source: Lucky Peach
Published: Jun 1, 2016
Length: 11 minutes (2,862 words)

Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker

A former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman was sentenced to six months in jail because a longer sentence would have “a severe impact on him,” according to a judge. At his sentencing, his victim read him a letter describing the “severe impact” the assault had on her.

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Jun 3, 2016
Length: 29 minutes (7,470 words)

Celebrate Pride: Stories About LGBTQ Parenthood

This reading list is dedicated to childbirth and/or queer parenthood, focused primarily on the experienced of mothers and non-binary parents.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 5, 2016

In Search of Lost Me Time

Even though he fantasized about a night out of town without his family, the childless time drinking with friends and watching movies isn’t as satisfying as Larsen imagined. Sometimes it’s comforting to know that the fantasy of solitude can’t live up to the reality of your family life.

Published: May 31, 2016
Length: 6 minutes (1,518 words)

The Man in the Woods

The hunt for a mentally ill man hiding in California’s redwoods leaves his family wondering if there were any way he could have been helped earlier.

Published: Jun 2, 2016
Length: 24 minutes (6,022 words)

A New Origin Story for Dogs

On the messy process that turned wolves into our domesticated companions — and why it is so hard to reconstruct it.

Author: Ed Yong
Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jun 2, 2016
Length: 11 minutes (2,908 words)