Anthony Youn, M.D., FACS, 10/15/12

Plastic Surgeon; Author, 'In Stitches'

In the next 10 years, I suspect that today's 'extreme plastic surgery' treatments will seem like run-of-the-mill procedures. The future is likely to bring us astonishingly advanced, and increasingly unusual ways to enhance our bodies.

Kirsten Dirksen, 10/16/12

Co-founder, faircompanies.com

Total cost was $12,000, but it's debt-free and it's much more than your typical college digs. It has a full kitchen (including a fridge/freezer, sink and camping oven), a sofa-bed he built himself, a nearly full-sized shower (he chopped the top off) and a composting toilet.

Vanity Fair, 10/12/12

Disturbing news for anyone averse to one-day-old, let alone 31-year-old, leftovers: a piece of wedding cake preserved from Princess Diana and Prince Charles's 1981 wedding is being auctioned off next month in Beverly Hills.

Rabbi Adam Jacobs, 10/15/12

Managing Director, Aish Center in Manhattan

To do what they do, they must vanquish fear, build tremendous reserves of patience and remain undaunted by failure. But what else could these people have done with their unassailable talents?

Beth Kohl, 10/12/12

Author, 'Embryo Culture: Making Babies in the Twenty-First Century'

This past week, I heard about a scientific breakthrough that could eventually allow people to create living beings, possibly even human ones, on command, age be damned.

Michael Patrick Flanagan Smith, 10/12/12

Writer and actor

The songwriting was something of an asterisk to a legendary drinking career. And of course, those stories were exaggerated. And of course, maybe they weren't exaggerated all that much. But Mike, soft-spoken with a slight Baltimore accent, has a singing voice that is high and sweet.

Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel, 10/11/12

For less humanoid systems, people respond idiosyncratically. For example, some people name their Roomba vacuums and speak of them almost like a pet but others do not. So what aspects of a system might provide those triggers?

Darren Perks, 10/11/12

UFO investigative researcher and media/press/TV/radio contributor

There is something hanging over Prime Minister David Cameron that will simply not go away... Will he keep a promise he made and confirm the existence of UFOS and extra terrestrial life?

Victor Stenger, 10/11/12

Physicist, Ph.D., bestselling author, author of 'God and the Folly of Faith'

The way to defeat ignorance is with evidence. After thousands of reported religious experiences of various kinds, including near-death-experiences, no one has ever provided a single item of verified new knowledge.

Nick Groff, 10/06/12

Co-host, Ghost Adventures

One lesson Ghost Adventures has taught me is that this stuff is real, and it's a lot more prevalent than I'd previously thought.

Waldo Mellon, 10/10/12

Professional guesser

Dear Mr. Mellon, I am going to give you ten arguments, among millions, in no particular order, why you are so full of shit when it comes your central theme that a Human Being is just another animal, just another "work in progress" as you so glibly call it.

Sharon Kitchens, 10/11/12

Blogger and neo-homesteader in Maine

Stan Brown of Cumberland, Maine, is nearly 93 years old, one of America's oldest registered beekeepers.

Dana Oliver, 10/08/12

Beauty Editor, HuffPost Style

This needs to be fixed before your wedding day!

Lawrence E. Joseph, 10/09/12

Author, 'Solar Cataclysm: How the Sun Shaped the Past and What We Can Do to Protect Our Future'

Recent research indicates that the sun has secretly been sending vitally important messages to piles of radioactive medical waste. No joke.

Tony Phillips, 10/09/12

Grant writer

Only in America, can you take a bright pink .22-caliber handgun to the firing range to show all your buddies that you're an evolved, sensitive citizen who promotes breast cancer awareness and enjoys blowing things to hell and gone.

Gregory Schrempp, 10/08/12

Associate Professor, Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology, Indiana University (Bloomington)

Carl Sagan (Cosmos), citing the origin of everyday chemical elements in stars, concludes that "We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos." Obviously Sagan is not talking literally, but just as certainly he knows the power of anthropomorphic appeal.

Ben Barber, 10/08/12

Journalist, photographer, consultant

This past summer showed how under climate change, the resulting droughts could rob fracking operations of water, an essential ingredient needed to harvest oil and gas from shale deposits, reports Michael Klare at Tomdispatch.