Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦‬

Send us Fan Mail Read the article on Substack 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 th...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail Read the article on Substack 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 evoluti...

Send us Fan Mail See the related Substack Episode, and there is a comic ".  )   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 suppo...

Send us Fan Mail Read the article on Substack 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 b...

Send us Fan Mail See the related episode for haiku, details and comic  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 Part 3: Generative AI Training pre-publication version A REPORT of the Register of copyrights May 2025 US Copywrite Office Recognition, Acknowledgment, Payment On...

Send us Fan Mail Read the article 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 spa...

Send us Fan Mail See our episode substack with haiku, details and comic 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail Hummm, go deeper. Comic, haiku, mind maps, essay and more 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 o...

Send us Fan Mail 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 con...

Send us Fan Mail Think about two people: Mark, who bikes the same route to work every day and hits the same gym with military precision, and Eleanor, who works from home but takes spontaneous walks to cafes, swims at different pools, and explores new neighborhoods on weekend bike rides. In a clinical test, they might perform identically - same walking speed, same strength, same cardiovascular fitn...

Send us Fan Mail Continue with the episode substack. Understanding the delicate balance between immune escape and infectivity in SARS-CoV-2's latest variants We're living through one of the most fascinating evolutionary experiments in real-time, and most of us don't even realize it. Every day, SARS-CoV-2 is running millions of tiny experiments in human bodies across the globe, testi...

Send us Fan Mail There's a moment in every archaeological dig when time collapses. When the careful scraping of trowels reveals something so intimate, so human, that centuries disappear and you're suddenly face-to-face with a life that mattered to someone, somewhere, sometime. In 1998, that moment came in a medieval square in Aalst, Belgium, where archaeologists found something that shou...

Send us Fan Mail For the episode comic, haiku, essay and much more... You're holding a miracle in your hands right now. That iPhone didn't just appear in some sterile California lab. It's the product of one of the most audacious manufacturing experiments in human history—a decades-long dance between American innovation and Chinese industrial might that's now teetering on the ed...

Send us Fan Mail The conventional narrative goes something like this: a doctor gives a patient a sugar pill but tells them it's medicine. The patient believes it will help, and somehow, mysteriously, they feel better. It's been framed as "the lie that heals"—effective but fundamentally dishonest. This framing created an ethical dilemma: beneficence versus autonomy. Is it okay t...

Send us Fan Mail Explore further with this episode's substack comic and other resources included  We're standing at the edge of something unprecedented in human history. Not another technological breakthrough that makes our phones faster or our videos sharper, but a fundamental shift in how we solve the complex problems that shape our physical world. While everyone's been obsessing...

Send us Fan Mail Let's get something straight right away: this isn't about being "too emotional" or easily offended. High sensitivity is a neurobiological reality, as evidenced by brain imaging studies that show distinct patterns of neural activity in highly sensitive people. When a highly sensitive person (HSP) walks into a crowded café, their brain doesn't just register...

Send us Fan Mail Checkout this Episodes Substack to go deeper You think you’re in control. You weigh pros and cons, mull over options, and make choices you’re sure are rational. But what if your brain is quietly betraying you?  What if the very machinery of your mind—those lightning-fast instincts and gut feelings—is steering you wrong, and you don’t even notice? Welcome to the unsettling world of...

Send us Fan Mail Bibliotherapy involves strategically chosen reading material aimed at specific therapeutic goals. The process typically includes: Identification - connecting with characters or concepts in the text Catharsis - experiencing emotional release through the reading Insight - developing new understanding and perspectives about one's own situation Unlike scrolling social media or pa...

Send us Fan Mail More on this episode substack In the race to build practical quantum computers, a fascinating dark horse is emerging: photonic quantum computing. While most media attention focuses on the superconducting approaches championed by tech giants, a different path using light itself might ultimately prove more practical and scalable. Scaling and networking a modular photonic quantum com...

Send us Fan Mail What's fascinating isn't just the scarcity but how swiftly that scarcity was weaponized as a tool of social control. In Rome, the wearing of purple evolved from a status symbol into a legally enforced class marker. Julius Caesar began wearing the all-purple toga praetexta as a show of power. By the 5th century CE, purple had become a complete state monopoly. Only the emp...

Send us Fan Mail Remember to open the episode substack to provide better memory retention You think you know your past. That argument with your partner last week, the taste of your grandmother’s pie from childhood, the exact moment you heard about 9/11.  These memories feel like Polaroids, crisp and unchanging, tucked safely in the album of your mind. But what if I told you they’re more like half-...

Send us Fan Mail Medical research has a woman problem. And women are dying because of it. When we talk about healthcare inequalities, we often focus on disparities in access or treatment. But there's a more fundamental problem lurking beneath the surface: much of modern medicine was built on research that excluded women entirely . It's not ancient history. It's recent, it's ong...