This week for BuzzFeed News, Joel Oliphint discovers how one simple device could change our understanding of hunger and the way physicians treat obesity. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed News and around the web.
The Invention That Could End Obesity — BuzzFeed News
A Michigan surgeon invented an apparatus that he believes tricks the brain into thinking the stomach is full. His Full Sense Device could be a lifesaver for millions of obese Americans and raises questions about how hunger — our most basic human impulse — even works. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
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A Boy Among Men — The Marshall Project/The Atlantic
A devastating piece by Maurice Chammah on how the American prison system fails to stop — and may even facilitate — the rape of young men, despite the passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003. “PREA has not been a complete failure, but it is also far from delivering on its promise." Read it at The Marshall Project or The Atlantic .
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How the Killing of a Trans Filipina Woman Ignited an International Incident — Vice
Jennifer Laude was engaged and in the happiest time of her life when she was brutally murdered last October. Meredith Talusan travels to the Philippines to discover how authorities are — or aren't — planning to prosecute the US marine standing trial for her death. Read it at Vice .
Courtesy of Marc Sueselbeck for Vice
Could Running for President Destroy Ben Carson's Legacy? — BuzzFeed News
Long before Ben Carson was a champion to social conservatives and an anathema to liberals, he was a legendary neurosurgeon and an icon of black triumph. Joel Anderson asks: Will his turn to politics destroy his legacy? Read it at BuzzFeed News.
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