Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦
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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦
@helioxpodcast.bsky.social
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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#SciencePodcast #Neuroscience #AIethics
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December 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This season finale synthesizes neuroscience, economics, climate science & AI into one empowering framework: our limits are specifications, not defeats.

52 mins that might change how you see everything. 🎧
December 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
AI ethics that honours human creativity: acknowledgment systems, active royalties, and durability concepts. Not utopian—practical infrastructure for an economy of curiosity, not extraction.
December 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Canadian policy makers are choosing resilience over extraction. Build Canada Homes. ASHRAE 241 standards worth $30B. Real change happening now.

Across 75 countries, listeners are translating research into action.
December 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Trust isn't soft. It's biology. High-trust workplaces predict sales with 84% accuracy. Social pain activates the same circuits as broken bones.

We now have the science to demand better—because it's measurably, demonstrably more effective.
December 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
From London cabbies memorizing 26,000 streets to Marshallese navigators reading invisible ocean waves—success isn't about exceeding limits. It's about working WITH our seven-dimensional minds.

The geometry of understanding is beautiful.
December 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Brain decline isn't inevitable. It's optional.

The intervention? Pick up a pen. A paintbrush. An instrument.

Write something. Make something.

Your brain is waiting to grow.

What will you create today?

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Creativity: BluePrint for Aging
Can creative activities actually reverse brain aging? New research involving 1,500 participants reveals that mastering skills like tango, music, or even strategic video games can make your brain biolo...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Study from Nature Human Behaviour shows creative experiences reverse biological markers of brain aging.

This changes everything about how we think about aging well.

The intervention isn't expensive. It's not complicated. It's accessible to everyone.
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The key word: ACTIVE.

Passive consumption (scrolling, watching, listening) doesn't produce the same effects.

Your brain needs to be the creator, not the consumer.

That friction—the effort of making—is where the transformation happens.
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
What counts as creative?

Writing, music, visual arts, dance, cooking, gardening, problem-solving.

If you're actively making something new—not just consuming—your brain responds.

Neuroplasticity doesn't retire. Your brain is designed to grow at any age.
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The beautiful part? You don't need talent.

You don't need training. You don't need to produce gallery-worthy work.

The act of creation itself—making something new, engaging actively—that's what rewires your brain at the cellular level.
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This isn't metaphor. This is measurable cellular change.

Creative engagement slows epigenetic aging markers in your brain. Not by a little. Significantly.

Your biological age ≠ chronological age.

Creativity is what makes the difference.
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
We aren't retiring from work.
We're being promoted to steering civilization.

AI = action layer (HOW) Humans = alignment layer (WHY)
The choices we make now determine what becomes inevitable.

Which future are you building?

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吝 The Symbiotic Blueprint: Intelligence, Entropy, and Economics
In this urgent deep dive, hosts explore The Last Economy by Emad Mostaque, examining how artificial intelligence is shattering our economic foundations in a thousand-day window. Blending physics, hist...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Three futures remain:

🔒 Digital Feudalism (comfortable cage)
🧱 Great Fragmentation (brittle monocultures)
🤝 Human Symbiosis (conscious choice)

Freedom isn't just moral—it's strategically superior for developing beneficial AI.
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The MIND Dashboard:

Material × Intelligence × Network × Diversity = Vitality
Zero out ANY category? System collapse.

Soviet Union: huge M+I capital, poisoned N, eliminated D. Result: inevitable failure.

This applies to nations AND individual lives.
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
GDP: our dashboard for insanity.

Wikipedia provides trillions in value. GDP contribution: NEGATIVE (destroyed the encyclopedia industry).

Planned obsolescence: phones dying after 2 years = economic growth.

We're flying blind with broken instruments.
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The brutal math: cognitive work dropped from $36/hour to $0.0001.

Radiologists train 13 years, earn $400K.
AI diagnoses for pennies.

The economy doesn't measure free expertise gained.
It measures consulting industry collapse.

That's the abundance trap.
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Four economic inversions:

→ Land (10,000 years)
→ Labor (1780+)
→ Capital (2000+)
→ Intelligence (NOW)

Each one reshaped civilization. This one is different.

This one is final.
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The thousand-day window isn't a deadline for apocalypse. It's a phase transition—like water to steam.

Once it happens, you can't reverse it by turning down the heat. The new state locks in.

We're in that window now.
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM