Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦
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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 ...
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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 o...
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, grind...
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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 d...
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 a...
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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...
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.
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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 betwe...
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.
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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 wa...
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 ...
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When a "defeated" disease comes roaring back, it exposes every crack in our public health foundation
There's something almost quaint about measles making headlines in 2025. Like hearing that someone still uses a rotary phone, or that a city's traffic lights run on punch cards. Measles was supposed to be done, finished, relegated to t...
We're living through what historians will probably call the Great Greenwashing Era. Every corporation has a sustainability report now. Every CEO talks about "purpose-driven business." Every shareholder meeting features carefully crafted slides about carbon neutrality by 2050. Most of it is performative bullshit designed to make us feel better about buying things we don't...
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Beyond copyright battles lies a revolutionary economic model that could transform how we value human creativity in the age of AI
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
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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 abilities are we missing because they don't fit our narrow definitions of intelligence?
More importantly, what does this mean for how we design our world? If we're sharing urban spaces with creatures whose intelligence we...
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We told ourselves a story about children and COVID-19. It was a comforting story.
Like most comforting stories we tell ourselves during crises, this one was both partially true and dangerously incomplete.
A massive new study from the RECOVER Consortium has just shattered our comfortable narrative. The kind of study that's too big to dismiss, too methodical to wa...
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 choice: a woman at the height of her scientific career, choosing prison over compromise.
But here's what's remarkable—that experience didn't break her. It radicalized her further. She emerged from prison to become one of E...
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Why your deepest convictions have more in common with falling in love than solving math problems
We tell ourselves a comforting lie about how our minds work. We like to imagine that our beliefs are the product of careful reasoning—that we weigh evidence, consider alternatives, and arrive at conclusions through some kind of internal cost-benefit analysis. It'...
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 invader could somehow reprogram these first responders to work against their own army?
That's exactly what researchers led by Shia and colleagues discovered SARS-CoV-2 can do. Within just one hour of exposure to the virus, healthy neutro...
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 thinking about medicine the way pharmaceutical companies want us to.
We live in an age of medical gaslighting disguised as evidence-based care. Millions of people suffer from conditions that conventional medicine can't explain, w...
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