Your hosts Neil Judson and Alex Pope take you inside a wide range of current issues from the scientific to the spiritual and beyond.

But first, Alex gives you a look at what’s making news nationally and internationally this week. (1:27 – 4:52)

With an alarming increase in childhood obesity across North America, parents and their kids are finding it harder to beat the battle of the bulge. But when dieting and exercise don’t work, is it appropriate to resort to surgery? Neil and Harpreet discuss gastric band surgery for teenagers with Dr. Allen Browne. (4:53 – 9:44)

Friday night – for most people, it’s a chance to relax and unwind at the end of the week, or get the weekend off to a flying start. But for a group of Christians in London, Ontario, it’s time to worship. Alex has this report on a progressive church. (9:55 – 14:54)

It’s the forbidden experiment – you’d never dream of taking a child away from its parents to study human nature. But what if such children already exist? (And they do.) Alex talks with Dr. Adriana Benzaquen of Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, an expert on feral and isolated children. (15:30 – 21:20)

We’ve all experienced the glance of an attractive stranger and the regret that we didn’t at least say hi, or the longing for an unrequited crush. But a new Los-Angeles based dating website that recently had its Canadian launch in Toronto is setting out to make sure you never miss another random connection. Neil chats with co-founder Mark Jaffe. (21:21 – 27:13)