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.

Plus: "The most famous bar you've never heard of" hosted gangsters in Goodfellas and Mae West on stage. We check in as it celebrates 195 years.

Also: The prospect of a generic version or the Gilead’s PrEP treatment raises hopes and causes controversy; and at the San Diego Zoo two male flamingos make ideal foster parents. 

Plus: Fat Bear Week in Alaska’s Katmai National Park & Preserve gets off to a grizzly – and grisly – start. 

Also: Why vulnerable children with complex needs in Ontario’s state care are living in hotels, airBnBs, offices, and trailers; and an exhibit in Vienna’s central library reveals the random stuff people have left in books over the decades. 

Plus: We meet an entomologist studying the tiny rove beetle who just – much to his own surprise – got an $800K MacArthur Fellowship.

Also: How people in Asheville, North Carolina are grappling with a new reality: their city is not as safe as they once believed.