Plus: Scandal rocks the World Conker Championship, with the newly crowned King Conker accused of using steel chestnuts.

Also: A New York Times report casts China’s panda breeding program in a light that’s anything but black and white; and what a K Pop scandal means for some of the world’s most popular music.

Plus: Ratatouille – the movie – inspires a Tik Tok creator to do the "stupidest thing" she’s ever done with her engineering degree.

Also: UNICEF’s James Elder on Israel’s latest strikes in Gaza and an imperilled polio vaccine campaign; and we reach a relief worker in North Carolina dealing with storm damage…and misinformation.

Plus: What the Hubble telescope is revealing about Jupiter’s “crimson vortex”, a gargantuan 100-year-old storm.

Also: Tampa Bay Times reporter Ian Hodgson on covering the hurricane that toppled a crane onto his newsroom; and UnESCO recognizes Halifax’s historic Africville neighbourhood.

Plus: On the eve of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, we speak to the brother of last year's winner, Narges Mohammadi, who remains behind bars in Iran.

Also: Researchers put together a pretty spicy experiment using hot sauce to test how the human brain processes pleasure and pain.

Nil Köksal sits down with the author to talk about her new book, “Blackness Is a Gift I Can Give Her: On Race, Community, and Black Women in Hockey".

Plus: Why “the idiot’s apostrophe” was long verboten in proper German, and now no longer is...

Also: Death row inmate Richard Glossip is taking his case to the Supreme Court, saying he deserves a new trial... something many Republicans -- including Oklahoma state representative Kevin McDugle -- agree with; and a Canadian takes home Wildlife Photographer of the Year for a pic that captures small creatures and hidden places that aren’t often celebrated.

Plus: Geoffrey Hinton – “The Godfather of AI” – on his Nobel win and the irony of being celebrated for a creation he warns could destroy the world.

Also: A lawyer representing First Nations tells us clean water should be considered a fundamental right in Canada, not a luxury; and two massive pumpkins, one giant mystery in West Kelowna, BC.

Plus: We speak with an Israeli and a Palestinian whose lives changed forever one year ago.