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 Podcast
Independent, 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, gentle, evidenced-based, clinical & community information regarding COVID-19. Since 2017, it has focused on Covid since Feb 2020, with Multiple Stores per day, hence a sizeable searchable base of stories to date. More than 4000 stories on COVID-19 alone. Hundreds of stories on Climate Change.
Zoomers of the Sunshine Coast is a news organization with the advantages of deeply rooted connections within our local community, combined with a provincial, national and global following and exposure. In written form, audio, and video, we provide evidence-based and referenced stories interspersed with curated commentary, satire and humour. We reference where our stories come from and who wrote, published, and even inspired them. Using a social media platform means we have a much higher degree of interaction with our readers than conventional media and provides a significant amplification effect, positively. We expect the same courtesy of other media referencing our stories.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 319
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
The Algorithm of Heartbreak: How Social Pain Turns Into Social Intelligence
Our brains are actually running two distinct but interconnected learning systems when processing social interactions:
Algorithm One: The Social Reward Tracker…
🕸️ Why AI's Next Breakthrough Isn't About More Data: Multifidelity Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks:
Please see the corresponding Substack episode
🧠 Just discovered AI that learns from "imperfect" data—like us humans do. Turns out the future isn't about perfect info, but smart partnersh…
The Invisible Architecture of our Reality: Semiotics
Your outfit today? It's not fashion. It's a complex semiotic system broadcasting your values, tribal affiliations, economic status, and worldview to everyone you…
🌫️ Global Air Quality, Wildfires, and Health: 2025 Update
Every person reading this is participating in the same atmospheric experiment. The air you breathe in New York contains particles from wildfires in Canada, d…
Our Internal Immune Radar: How we Detect Sickness
The most startling finding involved innate lymphoid cells (ILCs)—rapid-response immune sentinels that act like your body's first responders. When participant…
🧠 Human Cognitive Diversity: Understanding, Representation, and Explanation
A deep dive into the science that's shattering our assumptions about human minds
We stand at a crossroads. We can continue pretending that normal exists, pat…
USA's Global Games: Lifting the Fog on The Tarriff Strategy
Every time you buy groceries, electronics, clothing, or medicine, you're feeling the impact of these decisions. When your company loses export markets due to…
🧬 Mitochondrial Health for Reversing Aging and Disease
See corresponding Substack episode.
At 35, I thought aging was inevitable. Then I learned about the tiny powerhouses in our cells waging war against time itself. 🧬✨ #longevity"
We're stan…
Why Feeling Good Doesn't Always Pay Good: Emotional Intelligence
Can't get promoted? Work on your emotional intelligence. Still underpaid? Maybe you need more EI training. This narrative conveniently ignores the structural fac…
🌐 Adaptive Mutualism: A New Economic Model
Please review the corresponding Substack episode.
What happens when artificial intelligence looks at our broken economic systems and says, "I can do better than this"?
We're living throug…
An Ancient Brain in a Modern World: Addiction Isn't About Willpower
Here's where our modern predicament becomes clear: we've engineered a world flooded with what scientists call "super stimuli." These aren't the natural rewar…
The Sacrifice of Mungo McDonald
See the corresponding Substack episode.
The story of Pope Mungo reveals what happens when our comfortable moral categories collapse under the weight of real evil
I've been thinking about …
Noise Sensitivity - Why Your Brain Won't Stop Listening
Noise sensitivity was often treated as a "waste paper basket" diagnosis – something to brush off when doctors couldn't find anything "real" wrong with you. Mean…
💸 The Hidden Cost of Private Equity
Please see the corresponding Substack episode.
You probably don't know who owns your local hospital. You might not realize that the newspaper you grew up reading is now controlled by a f…
The Topology of Taste
Research shows that more flavorful foods trigger larger consumption. If your brain constructs more intense flavor experiences, you eat more.
Food companies un…
🧠 Welcome to the curved space of everything
Please see our corresponding Substack episode.
🧠💥 Just discovered how your brain might be hiding explosive secrets in curved spaces. New research reveals why AI suddenly "gets it" - and …
Highest UN Court's Ruling on Climate Change
The opinion transforms what was once treated as a moral imperative into a legal obligation. Countries can no longer hide behind the fig leaf of "we're doing our …
AlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture Discovery
Please see our corresponding Substack episode
We're living through what might be the last era where humans are the limiting factor in AI development. That's not hyperbole—it's the stark …
Renewables: The Unstoppable Economics of Our Clean Energy Future
What makes the renewable transition even more compelling is that we're finally accounting for the true costs of our fossil fuel dependence. The health impacts al…
The Afterlife Industrial Complex: What David Eagleman's Tales Tell Us About Our Desperate Need for Meaning
We're living through the death of certainty, and it's making us absolutely feral for answers about what comes next.
I spent an hour this week diving into Davi…