Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦
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We make rigorous science accessible, accurate, and unforgettable.
Produced by Michelle Bruecker and Scott Bleackley, it features reviews of emerging research and ideas from leading thinkers, curated under our creative direction with AI assistance for voice, imagery, and composition. Systemic voices and illustrative images of people are representative tools, not depictions of specific individuals.
We dive deep into peer-reviewed research, pre-prints, and major scientific works—then bring them to life through the stories of the researchers themselves. Complex ideas become clear. Obscure discoveries become conversation starters. And you walk away understanding not just what scientists discovered, but why it matters and how they got there.
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.
Episodes
The Archaeology of Tenderness: What Two Ancient Baby Burials Tell Us About Being Human
🛡️ The Paradox of Digital Sovereignty: What Canada's AI Sprint Reveals About Our Collective Future
The Money in the Wrong Bank: Canada’s Snow Drought
🧠Your Brain Is Lying to You (And That's Why You're Still Alive)
Beyond Tatooine: Double Suns and The Graveyard in Space
⏱️ The Brilliant Laziness of Being Human: Why Your Brain Refuses to Plan Ahead (And That's Actually Perfect)
When the Rains Stopped: How A Bronze Age Civilization Survived 1000 Years of Droughts
🌊 When Chaos Becomes the Compass: What Quantum Computing Teaches Us About Living With Uncertainty
Prehistoric Genomic Stability Points To Sudden Extinction Event
🔗 The Mathematics of Rescue: When Ancient Geometry Saves Modern Intelligence
"Just Predicting The Next Word": How Our Own Brains Resemble AI
🌀When Chaos Becomes the Solution: What Dancing Particles Teach Us About Hidden Order
Flowers, Pottery And The Ancient History of Mathematics
🧠 The Gentle Art of Taming Chaos: What Neural Networks Teach Us About Living With Turbulence
When AI Chatbots Go To Therapy (extended episode)
⚛️ When Physics Becomes the Algorithm: What Quantum AI Means for the Rest of Us
When AI Chatbots Go to Therapy
🦠 The Virus That Rewrote Its Own Rulebook: What D1.1 Teaches Us About Living in an Evolving World
The Truth about Female Sexual Desire and Mate Selection
🐟 Defying Rules with Vujá Dé
The Antibiotic Paradox: How Science is Solving Our Gut's Greatest Dilemma (Encore Episode)
👉 The Invisible Hand That's Actually Pushing You
The God Particle: Quantum Consciousness (Encore Episode)