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.
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Can Canada bet its way out of decades of decline? 🇨🇦
We dig into the $311B gamble that might finally change everything. Or won't.
The Arithmetic of Hope: Canada's Budget 2025
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We dig into the $311B gamble that might finally change everything. Or won't.
The Arithmetic of Hope: Canada's Budget 2025
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📖 Read: helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/arithmetic...
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Can Canada bet its way out of decades of decline? 🇨🇦
We dig into the $311B gamble that might finally change everything. Or won't.
The Arithmetic of Hope: Canada's Budget 2025
🎧 Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis...
📖 Read: helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/arithmetic...
We dig into the $311B gamble that might finally change everything. Or won't.
The Arithmetic of Hope: Canada's Budget 2025
🎧 Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis...
📖 Read: helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/arithmetic...
$30B/year in disability costs.
A critical meeting Nov 12th.
A vote in Q1 2026 nobody's watching.
Clean air standards that could change everything.
Canada's about to decide whether to mandate ASHRAE 241—the first G7 nation to require airborne disease protection in buildings.
A critical meeting Nov 12th.
A vote in Q1 2026 nobody's watching.
Clean air standards that could change everything.
Canada's about to decide whether to mandate ASHRAE 241—the first G7 nation to require airborne disease protection in buildings.
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
$30B/year in disability costs.
A critical meeting Nov 12th.
A vote in Q1 2026 nobody's watching.
Clean air standards that could change everything.
Canada's about to decide whether to mandate ASHRAE 241—the first G7 nation to require airborne disease protection in buildings.
A critical meeting Nov 12th.
A vote in Q1 2026 nobody's watching.
Clean air standards that could change everything.
Canada's about to decide whether to mandate ASHRAE 241—the first G7 nation to require airborne disease protection in buildings.
Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis...
Read more: helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/growing-up...
Growing up with chaos leaves the brain underresponsive to normal pleasure.
New research shows that addressing trauma and addiction simultaneously, does work.
#Addiction #Recovery #PTSD #TherapyWorks
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Growing up with chaos leaves the brain underresponsive to normal pleasure.
New research shows that addressing trauma and addiction simultaneously, does work.
#Addiction #Recovery #PTSD #TherapyWorks
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis...
Read more: helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/growing-up...
Growing up with chaos leaves the brain underresponsive to normal pleasure.
New research shows that addressing trauma and addiction simultaneously, does work.
#Addiction #Recovery #PTSD #TherapyWorks
Read more: helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/growing-up...
Growing up with chaos leaves the brain underresponsive to normal pleasure.
New research shows that addressing trauma and addiction simultaneously, does work.
#Addiction #Recovery #PTSD #TherapyWorks
We're building minds that can't sleep. Question is: are we teaching them to dream, or just to optimize? 🤖💭
New Heliox episode explores the 10 principles of AI agent economics—and why the efficiency trap might be our biggest near-term risk.
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New Heliox episode explores the 10 principles of AI agent economics—and why the efficiency trap might be our biggest near-term risk.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We're building minds that can't sleep. Question is: are we teaching them to dream, or just to optimize? 🤖💭
New Heliox episode explores the 10 principles of AI agent economics—and why the efficiency trap might be our biggest near-term risk.
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New Heliox episode explores the 10 principles of AI agent economics—and why the efficiency trap might be our biggest near-term risk.
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The "glass of wine is good for your brain" myth just got completely demolished by genetics. 2.4 million people. One clear answer: The protective effect of light drinking was never real. #AlcoholStudies #Alzheimers
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The "glass of wine is good for your brain" myth just got completely demolished by genetics. 2.4 million people. One clear answer: The protective effect of light drinking was never real. #AlcoholStudies #Alzheimers
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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The "glass of wine is good for your brain" myth just got completely demolished by genetics. 2.4 million people. One clear answer: The protective effect of light drinking was never real. #AlcoholStudies #Alzheimers
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The "glass of wine is good for your brain" myth just got completely demolished by genetics. 2.4 million people. One clear answer: The protective effect of light drinking was never real. #AlcoholStudies #Alzheimers
Your brain keeps you feeling real by constantly rewriting your past. But when that editing stalls? Ghost timelines haunt you—versions of yourself you didn't become but can't abandon.
This Halloween episode explores why October unmoors us. 👻
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This Halloween episode explores why October unmoors us. 👻
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October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Your brain keeps you feeling real by constantly rewriting your past. But when that editing stalls? Ghost timelines haunt you—versions of yourself you didn't become but can't abandon.
This Halloween episode explores why October unmoors us. 👻
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This Halloween episode explores why October unmoors us. 👻
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They said fusion had to be massive. A desperate team at Avalanche Energy proved 40x better with a reactor core you can hold in your hands. Sometimes impossible just means nobody tried failing fast enough. 🔬
New Heliox episode on the heretics who made fusion small ↓
New Heliox episode on the heretics who made fusion small ↓
October 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
They said fusion had to be massive. A desperate team at Avalanche Energy proved 40x better with a reactor core you can hold in your hands. Sometimes impossible just means nobody tried failing fast enough. 🔬
New Heliox episode on the heretics who made fusion small ↓
New Heliox episode on the heretics who made fusion small ↓
We taught cells to build their own quantum sensors.
For decades, physicists dreamed of putting quantum sensors inside living cells—but our best sensors need cold, isolated environments. Life is warm, messy, and chaotic. Totally incompatible.
Until now.
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For decades, physicists dreamed of putting quantum sensors inside living cells—but our best sensors need cold, isolated environments. Life is warm, messy, and chaotic. Totally incompatible.
Until now.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We taught cells to build their own quantum sensors.
For decades, physicists dreamed of putting quantum sensors inside living cells—but our best sensors need cold, isolated environments. Life is warm, messy, and chaotic. Totally incompatible.
Until now.
🎧 Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis...
For decades, physicists dreamed of putting quantum sensors inside living cells—but our best sensors need cold, isolated environments. Life is warm, messy, and chaotic. Totally incompatible.
Until now.
🎧 Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis...
20 million years → 15 minutes.
Danish researchers just broke time itself. This changes everything we thought we knew about learning.
What international quantum scientists demonstrated isn't just speed—it's a fundamental rethinking of how we can know things about the world. ☕✨
Danish researchers just broke time itself. This changes everything we thought we knew about learning.
What international quantum scientists demonstrated isn't just speed—it's a fundamental rethinking of how we can know things about the world. ☕✨
October 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
20 million years → 15 minutes.
Danish researchers just broke time itself. This changes everything we thought we knew about learning.
What international quantum scientists demonstrated isn't just speed—it's a fundamental rethinking of how we can know things about the world. ☕✨
Danish researchers just broke time itself. This changes everything we thought we knew about learning.
What international quantum scientists demonstrated isn't just speed—it's a fundamental rethinking of how we can know things about the world. ☕✨
💔 What if your heart attack warning should come from NASA, not just your doctor?
New research from Brazil tracked 1,340 heart attacks over 7 years and found something shocking: geomagnetic storms TRIPLE cardiac risk—especially for women.
We've been looking in the wrong direction.
New research from Brazil tracked 1,340 heart attacks over 7 years and found something shocking: geomagnetic storms TRIPLE cardiac risk—especially for women.
We've been looking in the wrong direction.
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
💔 What if your heart attack warning should come from NASA, not just your doctor?
New research from Brazil tracked 1,340 heart attacks over 7 years and found something shocking: geomagnetic storms TRIPLE cardiac risk—especially for women.
We've been looking in the wrong direction.
New research from Brazil tracked 1,340 heart attacks over 7 years and found something shocking: geomagnetic storms TRIPLE cardiac risk—especially for women.
We've been looking in the wrong direction.
Scientists can read your diet from your gut bacteria with 90% accuracy. 🦠
A study of 21,561 people reveals something wild: your microbiome creates unique dietary fingerprints. Omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans have completely different bacterial communities.
#microbiome #guthealth #plantbased
A study of 21,561 people reveals something wild: your microbiome creates unique dietary fingerprints. Omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans have completely different bacterial communities.
#microbiome #guthealth #plantbased
October 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Scientists can read your diet from your gut bacteria with 90% accuracy. 🦠
A study of 21,561 people reveals something wild: your microbiome creates unique dietary fingerprints. Omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans have completely different bacterial communities.
#microbiome #guthealth #plantbased
A study of 21,561 people reveals something wild: your microbiome creates unique dietary fingerprints. Omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans have completely different bacterial communities.
#microbiome #guthealth #plantbased
Ever fumble with a zipper and wonder: is this just aging, or something more?
Your hands might be whispering secrets about your brain health that you're not hearing.
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#BrainHealth #Neuroscience #AgingWell
Your hands might be whispering secrets about your brain health that you're not hearing.
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#BrainHealth #Neuroscience #AgingWell
October 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Ever fumble with a zipper and wonder: is this just aging, or something more?
Your hands might be whispering secrets about your brain health that you're not hearing.
🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis... 📖 helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/how-mobili...
#BrainHealth #Neuroscience #AgingWell
Your hands might be whispering secrets about your brain health that you're not hearing.
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#BrainHealth #Neuroscience #AgingWell
We're drowning in planet data but can't see clearly. Finally, AI displays Earth as meaning, not noise. This changes everything. 🌍✨
Seeing the Whole Earth—AlphaEarth Foundations
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📖 Essay: helioxpodcast.substack.com
#AI #ClimateScience #EarthObservation
Seeing the Whole Earth—AlphaEarth Foundations
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📖 Essay: helioxpodcast.substack.com
#AI #ClimateScience #EarthObservation
October 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We're drowning in planet data but can't see clearly. Finally, AI displays Earth as meaning, not noise. This changes everything. 🌍✨
Seeing the Whole Earth—AlphaEarth Foundations
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📖 Essay: helioxpodcast.substack.com
#AI #ClimateScience #EarthObservation
Seeing the Whole Earth—AlphaEarth Foundations
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📖 Essay: helioxpodcast.substack.com
#AI #ClimateScience #EarthObservation
⚛️ A quantum computer just ran for 2 hours straight—previous: milliseconds.
But the real story is about how they solved it—and what it teaches us about persistence.
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#QuantumComputing #Science #Technology
But the real story is about how they solved it—and what it teaches us about persistence.
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#QuantumComputing #Science #Technology
October 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
⚛️ A quantum computer just ran for 2 hours straight—previous: milliseconds.
But the real story is about how they solved it—and what it teaches us about persistence.
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📖 helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post...
#QuantumComputing #Science #Technology
But the real story is about how they solved it—and what it teaches us about persistence.
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#QuantumComputing #Science #Technology
36% - 46% of COVID survivors live with chronic illness.
Our song "The Elevator to Two" talks about what this means.
#LongCOVID #ChronicIllness #DisabilityAwareness
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Our song "The Elevator to Two" talks about what this means.
#LongCOVID #ChronicIllness #DisabilityAwareness
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October 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
36% - 46% of COVID survivors live with chronic illness.
Our song "The Elevator to Two" talks about what this means.
#LongCOVID #ChronicIllness #DisabilityAwareness
🎧 Episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis... Essay: helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post... Song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMJS...
Our song "The Elevator to Two" talks about what this means.
#LongCOVID #ChronicIllness #DisabilityAwareness
🎧 Episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis... Essay: helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post... Song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMJS...
What if your immune system could borrow another person's cellular memories? Today's breakthrough made me cry—cancer patients clearing COVID in days ✨
67-year-old cancer patient received borrowed T-cells. Four days later: viral load plummeted. Six months later: those cells are STILL protecting her
🧵
67-year-old cancer patient received borrowed T-cells. Four days later: viral load plummeted. Six months later: those cells are STILL protecting her
🧵
October 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
What if your immune system could borrow another person's cellular memories? Today's breakthrough made me cry—cancer patients clearing COVID in days ✨
67-year-old cancer patient received borrowed T-cells. Four days later: viral load plummeted. Six months later: those cells are STILL protecting her
🧵
67-year-old cancer patient received borrowed T-cells. Four days later: viral load plummeted. Six months later: those cells are STILL protecting her
🧵
🧵 The quiet revolution in AI safety is happening now—and it's nothing like sci-fi predicted.
🛡️ The Quiet Revolution in AI Safety: When Science Fiction Becomes Engineering - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦
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 usThe transformation is ...
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September 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🧵 The quiet revolution in AI safety is happening now—and it's nothing like sci-fi predicted.
🌡️ New research analyzed 1.2 billion social media posts and discovered something profound: extreme heat above 95°F systematically makes us more emotionally negative worldwide.
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#MentalHealth #ClimateAnxiety
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#MentalHealth #ClimateAnxiety
September 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🌡️ New research analyzed 1.2 billion social media posts and discovered something profound: extreme heat above 95°F systematically makes us more emotionally negative worldwide.
🎧 Full episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis...
📖 helioxpodcast.substack.com
#MentalHealth #ClimateAnxiety
🎧 Full episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis...
📖 helioxpodcast.substack.com
#MentalHealth #ClimateAnxiety
The most beautiful thing about AI scaling isn't the technology—it's watching thousands of specialized components learn to work together in perfect harmony.
September 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The most beautiful thing about AI scaling isn't the technology—it's watching thousands of specialized components learn to work together in perfect harmony.
When reality refuses to fit our neat little boxes 📦➡️🗂️
Spent 5 years thinking SARS-CoV-2 worked like a simple lock and key. Turns out the virus has been using a completely different entrance we didn't even know existed.
Spent 5 years thinking SARS-CoV-2 worked like a simple lock and key. Turns out the virus has been using a completely different entrance we didn't even know existed.
September 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
When reality refuses to fit our neat little boxes 📦➡️🗂️
Spent 5 years thinking SARS-CoV-2 worked like a simple lock and key. Turns out the virus has been using a completely different entrance we didn't even know existed.
Spent 5 years thinking SARS-CoV-2 worked like a simple lock and key. Turns out the virus has been using a completely different entrance we didn't even know existed.
🚨 Plot twist: Your job might not exist in 5 years,
but that's not the scary part
The scary part?
39% of your skills will be obsolete by 2030
(per WEF 2025 report)
The EXCITING part?
170 million new jobs are being created & 77% of employers are investing in reskilling YOU
🧵
but that's not the scary part
The scary part?
39% of your skills will be obsolete by 2030
(per WEF 2025 report)
The EXCITING part?
170 million new jobs are being created & 77% of employers are investing in reskilling YOU
🧵
September 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
🚨 Plot twist: Your job might not exist in 5 years,
but that's not the scary part
The scary part?
39% of your skills will be obsolete by 2030
(per WEF 2025 report)
The EXCITING part?
170 million new jobs are being created & 77% of employers are investing in reskilling YOU
🧵
but that's not the scary part
The scary part?
39% of your skills will be obsolete by 2030
(per WEF 2025 report)
The EXCITING part?
170 million new jobs are being created & 77% of employers are investing in reskilling YOU
🧵
The Role of Laughter in Brain Plasticity
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#neuroscience #laughter #brainscience #psychology #humor #research #science #consciousness #humanbehavior #cognitivescience #socialscience #embodiedcognition
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#neuroscience #laughter #brainscience #psychology #humor #research #science #consciousness #humanbehavior #cognitivescience #socialscience #embodiedcognition
September 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
HELIOX Podcast - Where Evidence Meets Empathy
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Research on pregnant women found associations between higher exposure to these chemicals and hypertension during pregnancy.
#CleanBeauty #PFAS #ForeverChemicals
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helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/beauty-pro...
Research on pregnant women found associations between higher exposure to these chemicals and hypertension during pregnancy.
#CleanBeauty #PFAS #ForeverChemicals
September 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
HELIOX Podcast - Where Evidence Meets Empathy
www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis...
helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/beauty-pro...
Research on pregnant women found associations between higher exposure to these chemicals and hypertension during pregnancy.
#CleanBeauty #PFAS #ForeverChemicals
www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis...
helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/beauty-pro...
Research on pregnant women found associations between higher exposure to these chemicals and hypertension during pregnancy.
#CleanBeauty #PFAS #ForeverChemicals
🔀 How Metaphors Construct the World We Think We Know
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#psychology #cognitivescience #linguistics #metaphor #language #research #embodiedcognition #conceptualthinking #mindscience #academicresearch
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helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post...
#psychology #cognitivescience #linguistics #metaphor #language #research #embodiedcognition #conceptualthinking #mindscience #academicresearch
September 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🔀 How Metaphors Construct the World We Think We Know
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helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post...
#psychology #cognitivescience #linguistics #metaphor #language #research #embodiedcognition #conceptualthinking #mindscience #academicresearch
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#psychology #cognitivescience #linguistics #metaphor #language #research #embodiedcognition #conceptualthinking #mindscience #academicresearch
The Invisible Architecture of our Reality: Semiotics
Podcast: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788
Substack: helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/the-invisi...
Your outfit today? It's a complex semiotic system broadcasting your values, tribal affiliations, economic status, and worldview to everyone you encounter.
Podcast: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788
Substack: helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/the-invisi...
Your outfit today? It's a complex semiotic system broadcasting your values, tribal affiliations, economic status, and worldview to everyone you encounter.
September 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The Invisible Architecture of our Reality: Semiotics
Podcast: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788
Substack: helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/the-invisi...
Your outfit today? It's a complex semiotic system broadcasting your values, tribal affiliations, economic status, and worldview to everyone you encounter.
Podcast: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788
Substack: helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/the-invisi...
Your outfit today? It's a complex semiotic system broadcasting your values, tribal affiliations, economic status, and worldview to everyone you encounter.