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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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16:47

🧬 AlphaGenome: Predicting Variant Effects on Gene...

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2025/07/09

Send us a text see the accompanying substack episode We've been reading our genetic code wrong this whole time. For decades, scientists focused on the 2% of our DNA that codes for proteins—the obvious stuff, the genes that make the building blocks of life. We treated the other 98% like genetic junk mail, regulatory noise that didn't really matter. We called it "junk DNA" with the casual dismissiveness of people who think they understand something because they can label it. Turns out, that 98%...

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19:52

The Myth of Canine Hierarchy - What Science Tells Us...

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2025/07/07

Send us a text Read the article on Substack Yes, they found breed differences. But not where you'd expect them, and not in the ways our cultural narratives would predict. Border Collies, those supposed canine Einsteins, excelled at impulse control—which makes sense if you think about it. Herding requires incredible restraint, the ability to resist the urge to simply chase and instead channel that predatory instinct into something useful. But guess what? They weren't universally superior...

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33:26

💨 COVID for Docs ( duty of care ): Science, Spread,...

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2025/07/05

Send us a text see epsisode substack There’s a story we should have memorized by now. Today, we call this resistance to new knowledge the “Semmelweis reflex.” A refusal to accept evidence because it feels wrong. Inconvenient. Uncomfortable. In 2020, a new virus entered the room. For a brief moment, we acknowledged its danger. We locked down. We listened. Then we did something strange. We started pretending. We pretended COVID was like the flu. We pretended the virus was done. We pretended mas...

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25:49

Our Planet: A Startup With No Business Plan

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2025/07/03

Send us a text Read the article on Substack The summary is stark: we are already operating outside acceptable risk parameters, with catastrophic impacts likely before 2050. Climate: severe impacts already occurring, with highly likely catastrophic warming pre-2050. Nature: trending toward severe degradation with catastrophic risks by 2050. Society: moving from current geopolitical tensions toward possible severe fragmentation. Economy: limited impacts now, but 19% GDP loss projected by 2050, ...

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19:01

⚡ How MiniMax M1 Just Rewrote the Rules of AI

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2025/07/01

Send us a text See the corresponding Substack episode Sometimes the most profound changes happen not with fanfare, but with a whisper that echoes through eternity. We're living through one of those whisper moments right now, and most people don't even know it happened. While the tech world obsesses over the latest chatbot drama and which billionaire said what about AI safety, a team of researchers just quietly solved one of the most fundamental problems in artificial intelligence. They didn't...

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20:14

The Conscience Crisis: Understanding Moral Injury

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2025/06/29

Send us a text Read the article on Substack What happens when the deepest wound isn't from what you witnessed, but from what you were forced to do? Or couldn't prevent? What happens when the injury isn't to your sense of safety, but to your sense of self? That's moral injury. It's what happens when someone violates their own deeply held values, witnesses others do so, or gets betrayed by institutions they trusted. It's not "I'm afraid this will happen again"—it's "I can't live with what I've ...

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24:36

The Longevity Mirage: A reality check on the promise...

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2025/06/27

Send us a text Go deeper with this episode substack. We're living through the most seductive health mirage in human history. Every week brings breathless headlines about miracle longevity drugs, AI-powered personalized medicine, and genetic therapies that promise to turn back the biological clock. The wealthy are already lining up for $1,350-a-month GLP-1 injections, whole-body MRI scans, and young plasma infusions. Meanwhile, the rest of us scroll through social media, wondering if we're mis...

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17:41

Our Oceans: The Fight for The Last Frontier

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2025/06/25

Send us a text Read the article on Substack Picture this: a wilderness so vast it covers nearly half the planet's surface, teeming with life that literally keeps our climate stable, yet completely lawless. No rules, no protection, no oversight. Just a free-for-all where the biggest players strip-mine the ecosystem while taxpayers foot the bill. Welcome to the high seas—and yes, it's exactly as dystopian as it sounds. But here's the thing that should make you sit up and pay attention: after de...

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15:29

👀 The Naked Truth About Academic Integrity

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2025/06/23

Send us a text See the corresponding substack for this episode How a fictional French exam reveals the uncomfortable realities of modern education There's something deeply unsettling about the story that crossed my feed this week. Not because it's shocking in the way we've come to expect from our endless scroll of outrage content, but because it asks questions we're not ready to answer. The story begins where most modern tales do: with someone mindlessly scrolling TikTok. A journalist stumble...

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22:57

The Sleep Industrial Complex Is Failing Us

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2025/06/21

Send us a text Let's start with something that should terrify every parent, teacher, and anyone who gives a damn about social cohesion: sleep loss creates what researchers call "loneliness contagion." When you interact with someone who hasn't slept enough, you walk away feeling lonelier yourself. Think about that for a moment. In a society where we're already drowning in isolation, our collective sleep debt is literally spreading loneliness from person to person like a virus. The research is ...

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19:01

🧠 The Invisible Scars: What COVID is Really Doing to...

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2025/06/19

Send us a text Want to know more? See our corrisponding Substack episode. We're living through the largest uncontrolled experiment on human cognition in history, and most people don't even know they're subjects. While the world moved on from pandemic panic to whatever fresh hell dominates this week's news cycle, researchers have been quietly documenting something that should terrify us all: COVID-19 is reshaping our brains in ways we're only beginning to understand. The evidence is moun...

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27:56

Solastalgia: Climate Change is Breaking Our Hearts

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2025/06/17

Send us a text Read article on Substack Climate change attacks our mental health on multiple fronts simultaneously. There's the acute trauma of disasters—the immediate psychological injury of losing your home to fire or flood. There's the subacute response—the eco-anxiety that comes from witnessing devastation, even from afar, and understanding what it means for our collective future. And then there's the chronic, grinding damage of living with constant uncertainty. The long-term effects incl...

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26:04

🧠 The Invisible Wounds: Why TBI's Social Impact...

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2025/06/16

Send us a text Please explore our the substack for this episode to go deeper. We live in a culture obsessed with visible recovery. The triumphant athlete returning to the field. The accident victim learning to walk again. The before-and-after photos that make us believe healing is linear and observable. But what happens when the most devastating injuries are the ones we can't see? I've been thinking about this after diving deep into research on traumatic brain injury (TBI), and I'm struck by ...

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11:51

Why Awe Might Be Our Most Undervalued Emotion

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2025/06/15

Send us a text Read the article When you experience awe—whether it's staring at a starry sky, witnessing an act of extraordinary kindness, or even watching that mesmerizing slow-motion video of a droplet falling into milk—your default mode network quiets down. The default mode network is essentially your brain's "me channel." It's that constant internal chatter about your problems, your plans, your anxieties about the future and regrets about the past. It's the neural network that keeps you t...

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20:58

🧬 The Future Of Discover: What AlphaEvolve Tells Us...

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2025/06/14

Send us a text Go deeper with this episode substack. There is also a comic. There's something deeply unsettling about watching a machine solve problems that have stumped humanity's brightest minds for over half a century. Not because it threatens our ego—though it certainly does that—but because it forces us to confront uncomfortable truths about the nature of knowledge, discovery, and what it means to be human in an age of artificial intelligence. Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve just broke a 5...

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15:17

The Brain's Sustain Pedal: How We Make Feelings

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2025/06/13

Send us a text Read the article The study suggests that when this timing goes wrong, it might underlie some of our most challenging mental health conditions. Too fast, and you might experience the disconnection and loss of control reported in schizophrenia. Too slow or too persistent, and you could be looking at the intrusive thoughts of OCD, the emotional dysregulation of PTSD, or the rumination patterns of depression. The implications extend beyond mental health into basic cognitive functio...

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22:33

📖 The Mind's Journey Through Hell: What Hegel's Map...

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2025/06/12

Send us a text Please see the Substack episode: Haiku, Essay, Resources, Comic, and More. How a 19th-century philosopher's brutal anatomy of human awareness predicted our current psychological and social breakdown We're living through what feels like a collective nervous breakdown. Social media has turned us into perpetual performers seeking validation. Political discourse has devolved into tribal warfare. We oscillate between absolute certainty about our beliefs and paralyzing doubt about ev...

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17:50

Mom, The Algorithm Will See You Now: Predicting...

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2025/06/11

Send us a text Read the article on Substack Instead of requiring new tests or lengthy questionnaires at discharge (when everyone's already exhausted and overwhelmed), the model uses information that's already been collected during routine care. Age, medical history, pregnancy complications, how long you stayed in the hospital, whether you needed medication for nausea—all data points that hospitals already track. The magic happens when you combine these mundane clinical details with something ...

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31:02

🍎 Apple WWDC 2025: How Apple Just Rewrote the Rules...

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2025/06/10

Send us a text Please see our episode substack for a more detailed breakdown and a comic. Something profound happened at Apple's WWDC 2025, and most people missed it entirely. While the tech press got distracted by shiny new features and incremental updates, Apple quietly orchestrated what might be the most significant shift in personal computing since the original iPhone. This wasn't just another product announcement—it was a declaration of independence from the surveillance capitalism that ...

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16:44

USA's Global Games: Canada, Ally or Enemy?

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2025/06/09

Send us a text Read the article on Substack Let's start by demolishing the central premise of Trump's geographical fantasy. The idea that the US-Canada border is somehow artificial or arbitrary reveals a stunning ignorance of centuries of distinct historical development. This isn't just about geography—it's about fundamentally different cultural, political, and social evolution that created two genuinely separate nations. The story begins in the early 1600s, when French settlers established a...

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