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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
- 320
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
🧠 The Invisible Scars: What COVID is Really Doing to Our Brains
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'r…
Solastalgia: Climate Change is Breaking Our Hearts
Climate change attacks our mental health on multiple fronts simultaneously. There's the acute trauma of disasters—the immediate psychological injury of losing yo…
🧠 The Invisible Wounds: Why TBI's Social Impact Matters More Than We Think
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 lea…
Why Awe Might Be Our Most Undervalued Emotion
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 dropl…
🧬 The Future Of Discover: What AlphaEvolve Tells Us About the Future of Human Knowledge
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 …
The Brain's Sustain Pedal: How We Make Feelings
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 disc…
📖 The Mind's Journey Through Hell: What Hegel's Map of Consciousness Reveals About Our Modern Crisis
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 soci…
Mom, The Algorithm Will See You Now: Predicting Postpartum Depression
Instead of requiring new tests or lengthy questionnaires at discharge (when everyone's already exhausted and overwhelmed), the model uses information that's …
🍎 Apple WWDC 2025: How Apple Just Rewrote the Rules of Personal Computing
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 …
USA's Global Games: Canada, Ally or Enemy?
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…
😷 The Hidden Epidemic: What Toronto's Measles Crisis Reveals About Our Broken Health System
See the related Substack Episode, and there is a comic ". )
When a "defeated" disease comes roaring back, it exposes every crack in our public health foundation
There's something almos…
“We can't go on like this”: Nature Needs A Price Tag
We're living through what historians will probably call the Great Greenwashing Era. Every corporation has a sustainability report now. Every CEO talks about …
The Liquid Economy: How AI Could Finally Pay Us Back
See the related episode for haiku, details and comic
Beyond copyright battles lies a revolutionary economic model that could transform how we value human creativity in the age of AI
When Hawks Become Traffic Engineers
If we're this wrong about hawks—creatures we can observe directly—what does that say about our understanding of other species? What sophisticated behaviors and cognitive…
⚕️The Hearts We Didn't Know We Were Breaking: What We're Learning About COVID's Long Shadow on Our Children
See our episode substack with haiku, details and comic
We told ourselves a story about children and COVID-19. It was a comforting story.
Like most comforting stories we tell ourselves dur…
The Radical Science of Peace: What Dame Kathleen Lonsdale Knew
When World War II came, Lonsdale faced the ultimate test of her convictions. As a conscientious objector, she was imprisoned rather than participate in the war effort. Think about that …
🧠 The Uncomfortable Truth About What You Really Believe
Hummm, go deeper. Comic, haiku, mind maps, essay and more
Why your deepest convictions have more in common with falling in love than solving math problems
We tell ourselves a comforting l…
The Virus That Hijacks Your Immune System's First Responders
Think of your immune system as a sophisticated military operation. Neutrophils are the rapid response team—they arrive first at any sign of trouble, ready to fight. But what if an invad…
🧪The Hidden Medicine Cabinet: Why One Old Drug Might Hold Keys to Our Chronic Illness Crisis
Corresponding Substack Episode
When a 50-year-old addiction medication starts reversing autoimmune diseases, clearing brain fog, and helping cancer patients—maybe it's time we stopped th…
Lost Mobility: The Prison You Don't See Coming
Think about two people: Mark, who bikes the same route to work every day and hits the same gym with military precision, and Eleanor, who works from home but takes spontaneous walks to c…