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A 5-Year-Old's Brainwaves Power This Synesthetic Music Visualizer
Artist Peter Crnokrak is using EEGs to translate music into mesmerizing visuals.
This Is What Happens to Unclaimed Bodies in Washington, DC
Unclaimed bodies are supposed to be buried in marked graves with proper identification, but most end up in mass burial sites, without identification, beside heaps of trash.
This Nonprofit Wants to Turn Corpses into Compost
Traditional burial is an unnatural process that uses a lot of land, and cremation releases carbon into the atmosphere—Katrina Spade thinks there's a better way to deal with dead bodies.
The Migrant Burial Ground (Extra Scene from ‘Death Boats to Greece: Europe or Die’)
In this extra scene from the 'Europe Or Die' series, Vice News visits a cemetery on the island of Lesbos, where the buried bodies reside of those refugees who take the "death boats" to Europe and befall disaster on the journey.
Finding Genghis Khan's Tomb from Space
How the "modern-day Indiana Jones" and thousands of crowdsourced amateur archaeologists are tracking down one of the most elusive burial grounds in the world.
The Kids Who Live and Work in Indonesian Graveyards
Riski is seven years old and spends nearly all his time in Pondok Kelapa Public Cemetery, where he's a sort of funeral director, gravedigger, and night watchman.
Having a Tibetan Sky Burial Means Birds Will Slowly Eat Your Corpse
Tibetan Buddhists have been performing sky burials for centuries, and it's one of the most economical—but also totally gory—funeral practices in the world.
We’re Watching the Trees
Millie Anthony is 38. Middle of the night. Lying there in the still bedroom, looking toward the window. A man called Jeff lies beside her. “We’re watching the trees again,” she says.
Deceased Native American Athlete Jim Thorpe Is Big Business in Small Towns
It’s been a century since Jim Thorpe won his Olympic medals, and half as long since he died. But in the town in Pennsylvania coal country that, for 50 years, has borne the name of the most celebrated Native American athlete ever, his birthday is still...
The Short Film Set to Burial's "Rival Dealer" is Gritty and Sad
Auteur Ben Dawkins captures the melancholy of Burial's latest work.
Stepping into Ben Khan's First Proper Interview
A new artist every month, because no has time to listen to one-hundred and twenty new bands a week or fifteen new artists a day. “I’m not going to sit here and not answer your questions”, Ben Khan tells me, a