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.
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"It felt like I was constantly pulling teeth just to get him to talk about his day, let alone his feelings." Meanwhile, she was expected to be his emotional GPS, life coach, and sexual servant—all while maintaining her own career, friendships, and mental health.
This isn't an isolated story. It's a pattern so consistent it's become predictable. Women are encountering the...
see the accompanying substack episode
We've been reading our genetic code wrong this whole time.
For decades, scientists focused on the 2% of our DNA that codes for proteins—the obvious stuff, the genes that make the building blocks of life. We treated the other 98% like genetic junk mail, regulatory noise that didn't really matter. We called it "junk DNA" with the casual dismissiveness of people who...
Yes, they found breed differences. But not where you'd expect them, and not in the ways our cultural narratives would predict.
Border Collies, those supposed canine Einsteins, excelled at impulse control—which makes sense if you think about it. Herding requires incredible restraint, the ability to resist the urge to simply chase and instead channel that predatory instinct into somethin...
There’s a story we should have memorized by now.
Today, we call this resistance to new knowledge the “Semmelweis reflex.” A refusal to accept evidence because it feels wrong. Inconvenient. Uncomfortable.
In 2020, a new virus entered the room. For a brief moment, we acknowledged its danger. We locked down. We listened. Then we did something strange. We started pretending.
We pretended COVID was like t...
The summary is stark: we are already operating outside acceptable risk parameters, with catastrophic impacts likely before 2050.
Climate: severe impacts already occurring, with highly likely catastrophic warming pre-2050. Nature: trending toward severe degradation with catastrophic risks by 2050. Society: moving from current geopolitical tensions toward possible severe fragmentation. Economy...
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Sometimes the most profound changes happen not with fanfare, but with a whisper that echoes through eternity.
We're living through one of those whisper moments right now, and most people don't even know it happened.
While the tech world obsesses over the latest chatbot drama and which billionaire said what about AI safety, a team of researchers just quietly solved one of t...
What happens when the deepest wound isn't from what you witnessed, but from what you were forced to do? Or couldn't prevent? What happens when the injury isn't to your sense of safety, but to your sense of self?
That's moral injury. It's what happens when someone violates their own deeply held values, witnesses others do so, or gets betrayed by institutions they trus...
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We're living through the most seductive health mirage in human history. Every week brings breathless headlines about miracle longevity drugs, AI-powered personalized medicine, and genetic therapies that promise to turn back the biological clock. The wealthy are already lining up for $1,350-a-month GLP-1 injections, whole-body MRI scans, and young plasma infusions. Meanwhile, t...
Picture this: a wilderness so vast it covers nearly half the planet's surface, teeming with life that literally keeps our climate stable, yet completely lawless. No rules, no protection, no oversight. Just a free-for-all where the biggest players strip-mine the ecosystem while taxpayers foot the bill.
Welcome to the high seas—and yes, it's exactly as dystopian as it sounds.
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How a fictional French exam reveals the uncomfortable realities of modern education
There's something deeply unsettling about the story that crossed my feed this week. Not because it's shocking in the way we've come to expect from our endless scroll of outrage content, but because it asks questions we're not ready to answer.
The story begins where most m...
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 ...
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'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...
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 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...
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 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.
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 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.
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 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...
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