​“Believe it or not, Pun’s death wasn’t even enough to make me go hard and lose weight like that,” says Fat Joe, who pulled up to Styles P’s Juices For Life on Castle Hill Ave in the Bronx to talk about life and health and hip hop. After losing six friends in a row to heart attacks, Joe had an epiphany while attending one of their funerals. “I was lookin’ at my own funeral,” says the hip hop legend. “This is gonna happen to me. That’s why I went so hard losin’ weight and [...]

Joseph Norfleet is serving life in prison after missing his intended target in a drive-by shooting and killing a 9-year-old boy in 1994. In this video, Jeffrey Goldberg visits him in the Louisiana State Penitentiary to discuss his experience in prison and the prospect of rehabilitation. Goldberg tells Norfleet's story in more detail in "A Matter of Black Lives," in the September issue of The Atlantic. [...]

An Australian professor and performance artist is growing an ear on his arm as part of a new project. Stelarc, as he's known, has been working on the project for almost a decade. He had a biopolymer scaffold in the shape of an ear placed under his skin, and in six months his tissue and blood vessels grew around it. His next step is to grow an ear lobe, and eventually get a microphone and wireless transmitter inserted so the ear can connect to the internet. [...]

http://esnewsreporting.com - Andre Berto says he'd defeat Ronda Rousey by choking her out [...]

After getting caught stealing, Justin Upton swings his helmet in frustration but loses his grip and accidentally hits Yonder Alonso. Justin Upton nearly cost the Padres a lot more than his $14.5 million salary by almost seriously injuring teammate Yonder Alonso with his batting helmet Saturday night. After getting picked off trying to steal a base in the top of the 8th inning of a 7-5 win over the Rockies, the high-priced outfielder lost his cool in the dugout and slammed his helmet, which ricoc...

"I'm a professional opera, concert and choral singer that was diagnosed with a brain tumour (a GBM as it turned out). The neurosurgeon's advice was to do an awake craniotomy so that I could sing during the surgery (on June13th 2014) in order to avoid deficits after the procedure. The music neuro team of the UMC in Utrecht was also involved in order to assist the surgery. There is no blood or exposed flesh in the video. I sing two (first and last) couplets of Schubert's lied "Gute Nacht": the min...

This is why riding those rides at theme parks and carnivals that shoot you up into the air while you're suspended in some ball-like cage are dangerous [...]

Aston Martin keyed in Hackney, London. The Met Police is looking for this man after $14,000 worth of damage was caused to an Aston Martin. [...]

Most people were first exposed to Michael C. Ruppert through the 2009 documentary, Collapse, directed by Chris Smith. Collapse was one of the scariest documentaries about our world and the fragile the state of our planet. It was also one of VICE's favorite films from the past ten years. Michael was forced to leave the LAPD after claiming that the CIA was complicit in selling drugs across America, and he quickly became one of the most original and strident vo [...]

Matt Serra is a retired American mixed martial artist and Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner who competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. [...]