Meghan Ralston

Harm Reduction Manager, Drug Policy Alliance

It's easy to focus on the sensational aspects of the emerging krokodil "flesh-rotting drug" story, but that ignores the most troubling issues around its origins, its popularity and its continued use.

SmarterTravel

Smartertravel.com

If you suffer from a fear of flying, you probably shouldn't read this--unless you enjoy having your worst fears validated.

Jayanti Tamm

Author, 'Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult'

Are they victims? Only those on the outside and ex-members view them that way. To the devout, the concept that they are 'victims' is a direct insult. How can they be victims when they have chosen their path?

Diane Benscoter

Author, 'Shoes of a Servant'

Extremism has become a sensationalized catchall phrase, often used by politicians and mass media to polarize and to label groups of people as "the bad guys." But, what is extremism? And how do we get to the root of its destructiveness?

Eliyahu Federman

Civil rights activist, writer and SVP, CCO of 1Sale.com

It was either the modern unknown world, or their family. If they chose not to return, their family would disown them. Leaving their loved ones behind was not seen as an option. Sadly, that is the definition of a cult.

Lisa Kerr

Creator, 'My Cult Life'

What makes a bright young woman join a cult and sacrifice her life to someone else's dreams? For starters, nobody joins a "cult." From the outside Master's Commission looked like the quickest path to change the world.

Michael F. Jacobson

Executive Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest

Nutrition labels should be clear, honest, and informative -- and reading one shouldn't require the skills of an NSA code-breaker. But too often, companies try to trick people into buying foods that aren't as healthy as the labels pretend.

David Lohr

Senior Crime Reporter

From across the state and beyond, geeks, heroes and the anti-heroes descended by the thousands on Columbus for the 2013 Wizard World Ohio Comic Con.

Roger Marsh

UFO writer, author, playwright and independent filmmaker

If you like mystery and detective novels -- with a hint of the paranormal -- this is a very real and up close accounting of a long term mystery with, as of yet, no reasonable explanation.

Janice Harper

Anthropologist

When retired correctional officer Bob Fletcher was told the painting he bought off a teenage inmate in the mid-'70s could be an original Peter Doig, he was flabbergasted.

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Food news, all day.

Ready to have your mind blown, your childish innocence shattered, your ideas of everything right in the world torn asunder?

Bon Appetit

Bon Appétit Magazine

You should probably consider these 21 superstitions so you don't end up unmarried, childless, friendless, or worse.

Pamela J. Grossman

Writer, independent curator, and teacher of magical practice and history

Three magical women are captivating, because they transcend the simple positive/negative dichotomy. They aren't enemies in a "good witch" v. "bad witch" scenario, but are a force to be reckoned with as a collective.

Tony Phillips

Executive Director, Kouros Phillips Development

Immanuel Kant, has in 250 years' time sparked many an argument. And just the other day he got a man shot. Kid you not.

Ronni Thomas

Creator and director, 'The Midnight Archive'

Potter's work accesses a place in my mind (and I am sure many others) that's become a distant valley as I get older. His work has a childlike innocence that resounds through the ages.

Margie Goldsmith

Has traveled to 122 countries

"I've never said what I though the treasure is worth because I don't know, but writers keep upping its worth. When the value gets to $10 million I'm going back to get it."

Orlando Jones

Actor, Comedian

As I prepared to embark on a cross-country road trip from Los Angeles, Calif., to Wilmington, N.C., to begin filming the new Fox TV series Sleepy Hollow, I used the opportunity to learn the truth behind the legend -- a mythology that lives far beyond the quaint village of Sleepy Hollow.