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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦‬

Join our hosts as they break down complex data into understandable insights, providing you with the knowledge to navigate our rapidly changing world. Tune in for a thoughtful, evidence-based discussion that bridges expert analysis with real-world implications, an SCZoomers PodcastIndependent, moderated, timely, deep, gentle, clinical, global, and community conversations about things that matter. Breathe Easy, we go deep and lightly surface the big ideas.Curated, independent, moderated, timely, deep,

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15:36

How Mobility Predicts Cognitive Health

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2025/10/15

Send us a text Read the article on Substack We are not minds that happen to have bodies—we are integrated systems where every movement carries information, every gesture contains intelligence, every stumble might be a prophecy. The researchers noted something else troubling: while grip strength—that macho measure of vitality we love to test at carnivals—showed associations with cognition in simple analyses, it disappeared as a predictor once hand dexterity entered the equation. Brute strength...

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12:58

🔬Diet Signatures in the Gut Microbiome Across 21,561...

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2025/10/13

Send us a text Please take a look at the corresponding Substack episode. The future of health might be less about restriction and more about strategic abundance We've been having the wrong conversation about food. For decades, the debate has endlessly revolved around what we should eliminate—meat, dairy, carbs, fat, gluten, sugar. We've turned eating into a game of nutritional Jenga, carefully removing blocks and hoping our health doesn't fall apart. But what if the most effective inter...

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14:44

What Dinosaur Eggs Tell Us About Our Own Fragile Moment

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2025/10/11

Send us a text Read the article on Substack The precision of this dating technique creates a kind of temporal vertigo. We're looking at eggs laid during a specific geological moment when climate change was reshaping the planet, when species were adapting and migrating and ultimately preparing—unknowingly—for extinction. The parallels to our own moment are so obvious they feel almost heavy-handed, like a novelist who's lost all subtlety. Yet there's also something oddly comforting about this d...

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18:42

🗺️ Seeing the Whole Earth: Why AlphaEarth Foundations...

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2025/10/09

Send us a textPlease see the corresponding Substack for more informationWe've been trying to see our planet clearly for decades now, and we're still not very good at it.That's the uncomfortable truth behind Google DeepMind's recent release of AlphaEarth Foundations. This foundational AI model does something we desperately need but haven't quite managed to achieve: it creates a consistent, accessible view of our entire planet's surface. Not just snapshots. Not just

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13:29

Revenge: Why We Pay to Punish (The Neural...

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2025/10/07

Send us a text Read the article on Substack The neuroscience of altruistic punishment reveals both our greatest hope and our deepest vulnerability. We are capable of extraordinary self-sacrifice in service of justice, but that same capacity can be exploited, misdirected, or suppressed. Understanding these mechanisms won't solve injustice, but it might help us recognize when our moral instincts are being manipulated and when the costs of inaction exceed even the highest price of punishment. In...

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14:57

⚛️ The Living Machine: What Quantum Computing Teaches...

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2025/10/05

Send us a textPlease see the corresponding Substack resource.We've been sold a particular story about progress. It goes something like this: breakthroughs happen suddenly, genius strikes like lightning, and revolution arrives in a single dramatic moment that changes everything overnight.The reality, as usual, is messier and more interesting.Consider what happened recently in a laboratory where scientists managed to keep a quantum computer running for two hours straight. Two hours doesn't

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15:02

Long Covid Global Stats 2025: How We Normalized Mass...

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2025/10/03

Send us a text Read the article on Substack So instead, we'll continue to normalize the abnormal, to treat a 36% chronic illness rate as just another statistic, to let individuals bear the cost of collective failures. We'll keep moving, keep consuming, keep pretending that the bodies breaking down around us are isolated tragedies rather than predictable outcomes of predictable choices. The numbers don't lie. But the people who interpret them for public consumption certainly do. Thirty-six per...

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14:10

🔬 The Quiet Revolution: When Medicine Learns to Remember

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2025/10/01

Send us a textPlease take a look at our corresponding Substack Episode. What if your immune system could borrow another person's cellular memories? Today's breakthrough made me cry—cancer patients clearing COVID in days 🧬✨It’s a question that sounds like science fiction, but the answer is unfolding in real time through a therapy called TVGN489. In a phase one clinical trial, researchers took immune cells from people who had recovered from COVID-19—not just any cells, but the specialized

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21:41

Social Thermodynamics: The Physics of Inequality

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2025/09/29

Send us a text Read the article on Substack Another team of researchers traced the origins of inequality using what they call the "Energy Hierarchy Inequality Hypothesis." They discovered that inequality isn't just a side effect of human greed—it's the predictable result of an ancient algorithm we've been unconsciously following for thousands of years. The algorithm works like this: More energy per person → Larger institutionsLarger institutions → Deeper hierarchiesDeeper hierarchies → Expone...

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17:25

🛡️ The Quiet Revolution in AI Safety: When Science...

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2025/09/27

Send us a text Please see the corresponding Substack episode How the world's most powerful tech companies are treating AI safety like nuclear physics—and what that means for the rest of us The transformation is remarkable. Just a few years ago, AI safety discussions felt like philosophical thought experiments—distant concerns about robot overlords and science fiction scenarios that belonged more in academic seminars than corporate strategy meetings. Today, companies like Anthropic, Open...

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13:02

How Extreme Heat Affects Human Emotion: A Global Study

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2025/09/25

Send us a text Read the article on Substack As global temperatures continue rising and our collective mood potentially shifts toward persistent negativity, what happens to us? How does chronic heat-induced irritability affect social cohesion? Political stability? Our capacity for the cooperation and empathy we'll desperately need to address climate change itself? There's a dark feedback loop lurking here: climate change makes us more emotionally negative, which could make us less capable of t...

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32:30

📈 The Poetry of Computational Power: What Scaling AI...

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2025/09/23

Send us a text Please see the corresponding Substack episode How the engineering principles behind massive AI systems reveal timeless truths about cooperation, specialization, and the delicate art of working together There's something almost mystical about watching a thousand chips work in perfect harmony. Each one a specialized genius, none capable of greatness alone, but together creating something that feels like magic. This is the reality behind today's large language models – not the bre...

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20:04

The New "Big Five": An Expanded Peronality Model

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2025/09/21

Send us a text Read the article on Substack Perhaps the most interesting revelation is that there's no statistical support for a single, overarching "general factor of personality"—no master trait that ties everything together. Instead, what emerged is a complex three-tiered hierarchy: 28 specific facets at the base, six broader traits in the middle, and three meta-traits at the top. This isn't just academic hair-splitting. This is like discovering that what we thought was a simple ranch hous...

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16:47

🤔 What SARS-CoV-2 Teaches Us About Human Certainty

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2025/09/19

Send us a text See corresponding substack episode How a microscopic invader exposed our dangerous addiction to simple stories We love our neat packages. Lock and key. Good and evil. Us and them. Simple cause, simple effect. It's how we make sense of a world that often refuses to cooperate with our need for clarity. But what happens when reality insists on being messier than our metaphors? The story of how SARS-CoV-2 actually enters our cells—not the story we told ourselves for years, but the ...

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18:28

Musical Training: A Fountain of Youth

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2025/09/17

Send us a text Read the article on Substack In today's episode we discuss a research article investigating the impact of long-term musical training on age-related changes in brain activity, specifically during speech-in-noise perception. The study compares older musicians, older non-musicians, and young non-musicians using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain connectivity. It explores two hypotheses: whether musical training bolsters age-related neural compensation or...

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20:10

The Future of Jobs 2025 WEF

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2025/09/15

Send us a text See our corresponding substack. Your job might not exist in 5 years. But here's what will: your ability to adapt, create, and stay human. New episode explores the real future of work. 💼✨ More than half the workforce needs retraining or upskilling. Essentially, yes. The good news is that employers seem to recognize this. 85% say they plan to prioritize upskilling their current workforce. That's a firm commitment. So, if you're listening and your employer isn't discussing

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22:18

Metastability: The Role of Laughter

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2025/09/13

Send us a text Read (or listen to) the accompanying article on Substack In today's episode we explore the multifaceted nature of laughter, examining its philosophical underpinnings and neuroscientific mechanisms. It discusses classical theories of humor, such as superiority, relief, and incongruity, and how they relate to both voluntary and involuntary laughter. The authors propose a convergent approach to studying laughter, integrating philosophical perspectives with modern neuroimaging tech...

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21:47

🍎 When Earbuds become babble fish: Privacy Becomes...

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2025/09/11

Send us a text Read the corresponding Substack episode How Apple's latest announcements reveal a different path forward—one where surveillance capitalism isn't inevitable We're living through a moment that Douglas Adams predicted decades ago in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Remember the Babel fish? That small, yellow creature you stick in your ear that instantly translates any language? Well, Apple just announced they've essentially built one. Except instead of a benevolent ...

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13:07

Beauty Products: Forever Chemicals and "Clean Cosmetics"

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2025/09/09

Send us a text Read the article on Substack First, understand that risk is not binary. The dose makes the poison, but we don't know what the safe dose is for most of these chemicals, especially in combination, especially over decades of use. Second, recognize that "clean" is a marketing term, not a scientific one. Read ingredient lists. Understand that fragrance-free and paraben-free products might actually be safer, not because parabens are definitely dangerous, but because we have more data...

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21:44

🔀 How Metaphors Construct the World We Think We Know

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2025/09/07

Send us a text See the corresponding Substack for more. We're living inside a linguistic conspiracy so elegant that we can't see it. Every time you say "time is running out" or describe someone as "looking up to" another person, you're not just using colourful language—you're revealing the secret architecture of human consciousness itself. This isn't another feel-good piece about the beauty of language. This is about power. The power of invisible structures to shape not just how we communicat...

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