Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦
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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 Intelligence We Never Saw Coming: Rethinking Consciousness Beyond Human Perception
In the vast, uncharted territories of speculative fiction, Sue Burke's "Semiosis" emerges as a revolutionary exploration of planetary colonization that shatters our anth…
Why Everything You Think About Body Fat Is Incomplete
We've spent decades obsessing over weight loss, counting calories, and staring at BMI charts. All while overlooking what might be the most crucial metric of all: visceral fat proportion…
Antioxidant Polymer Reduces Brain Injury Damage
We've all heard about traumatic brain injuries, but what really happens inside your skull after the initial impact? This isn't just another medical lecture—it's a deep d…
NSAIDs and Dementia Risk
Sometimes the most profound scientific discoveries come from examining the most ordinary things. Take those over-the-counter painkillers in your medicine cabinet — the ones you reach fo…
🩺 The Silent Sabotage: How COVID-19 May Have Hijacked Your Hormones
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Ever feel like you're navigating a biological minefield?
We delve into the unsettling truth about COVID-19's long shadow: its insidious impact…
Why Our Brains Are Wired for Narrative: The Biological Imperative of Storytelling
We're drowning in information but starving for meaning. Every day, we're bombarded with approximately 34GB of data—equivalent to watching 34 hours of Netflix in a single day. Yet how mu…
🧘 Quiet couples: Alone time together
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In "Quiet Couples: The Power of Shared Silence," Heliox examines the unspoken language that shapes our most intimate relationships. The episode unpack…
Beyond Rules: Gilligan, Kohlberg, and the Morality of Care
In a world increasingly driven by algorithms, efficiency metrics, and universal protocols, we're witnessing a profound crisis of connection. Our institutions champion impartiality and s…
When Quantum Noise Powers AI: The Next Evolution of Generative Models
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Imagine harnessing the chaotic quantum noise that quantum computing engineers typically fight against—and using it to create mor…
Planetary Solvency: The Earth's Balance Sheet is in the Red
The planet is basically bankrupt, and most of us are still shopping like there's no tomorrow. That's not hyperbole—it's the conclusion of actual financial experts who are finally using …
🌍 The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing: How Market Thinking Conquered Our World
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In this provocative episode of Heliox, we dissect Mark Carney's groundbreaking work on how our obsession with…
How Your Neighborhood Is Affecting Your Risk for Dementia
A groundbreaking meta-analysis has revealed something that should fundamentally change how we think about dementia prevention: the places we live, work, and breathe are directly linked …
🧠 Long COVID: Neurological Sequelae, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Strategies
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The pandemic might be officially "over," but millions are still suffering. Long COVID is finally getting the scientific attent…
America's Healthcare: Why It's The Most Expensive, And Least Effective
The numbers are in, and they're even worse than we thought.
Americans borrowed $74 billion—that's billion with a B—last year just to pay for healthcare. Let that sink in for a moment. We…
The Invisible Economy: How Family Work Shapes Modern Canada
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The modern family is unraveling under pressures our parents never imagined. In this eye-opening episode, Heliox dives into the "Fam…
The Cruel Experiment: How Basic Income Transformed Lives Until Politicians Pulled the Plug
The Ontario Basic Income Pilot wasn't just another government program. For thousands of struggling Canadians, it was a lifeline that allowed them to breathe for the first time in years.…
🏠 The Quiet Revolution Reshaping Canadian Families
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Think you know what a "typical Canadian family" looks like? Think again. In this eye-opening episode of Heliox, we unpack the dramatic transform…
The Hidden Lung Trauma: What COVID Means for Our Children's Future
We've been telling ourselves a comfortable lie. The pandemic is over, they say. Kids bounce back. They're resilient. Except science is telling us a different story—one of microscopic da…
The Air Between Us: How We Forgot (Then Remembered) That Disease Travels Through Air
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In this eye-opening episode of Heliox, we unravel the forgotten history of airborne disease transmission. Join us as we trace how F…
The Antibiotic Paradox: How Science is Solving Our Gut's Greatest Dilemma
The gut microbiome is having a moment. It's been elevated from a somewhat neglected internal ecosystem to healthcare's most promising frontier. But there's a problem we're not talking a…