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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

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The 20-Million-Year Coffee Break: What Quantum Learning Tells Us About Knowledge Itself - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦‬

Please take a look at the corresponding Substack episode.There's a moment in the quantum computing story that should make us all stop and stare at our coffee cups. A classical computer would need 20 m...

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

What mysteries become solvable when measurement takes minutes instead of millions of years?

New materials. Drug discovery. Fundamental physics. The universe has been broadcasting answers we couldn't hear—until now.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

This was truly international: Denmark's Technical University (experimental platform), Caltech/MIT/Chicago (theory), Google Quantum AI (algorithms), Korea's KAIST, and Canada's Perimeter Institute.

Modern science: distributed, collaborative, borderless.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

The breakthrough: using EPR-entangled photons on a scalable continuous-variable platform, researchers achieved 11.8 orders of magnitude improvement.

That's not incremental. That's not even exponential in the usual sense.

That's shattering classical limits.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

The problem: sample complexity. How many times do you need to measure something to understand it reliably?

For complex systems, that number grows catastrophically. Want to understand protein folding? Material behaviour? Classically: geological epochs of data collection.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

20 million years → 15 minutes.

Danish researchers just broke time itself. This changes everything we thought we knew about learning.

What international quantum scientists demonstrated isn't just speed—it's a fundamental rethinking of how we can know things about the world. ☕✨

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 6d

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#SpaceWeather #HeartHealth #WomensHealth

💔 Solar storms and heart attacks: Geomagnetic Storms and Myocardial Infarction Susceptibility in Women - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦‬

Please take a look at the corresponding Substack episode.We've been looking in the wrong direction.While cardiologists scrutinize cholesterol panels and blood pressure readings, while researchers pars...

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 6d

This isn't fringe science. The KP index measures geomagnetic activity 0-9. The study found clear correlations at medium latitudes—not just polar regions. Machine learning confirmed: severe space weather clusters with female cardiac events.
Should we add space weather to cardiac risk monitoring?

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 6d

The hypothesis? Earth's electromagnetic "heartbeat" (Schumann Resonance at 7.8 Hz) matches our brain wave frequencies. When solar storms amplify this signal, it disrupts melatonin, serotonin, and circadian rhythms—triggering cardiac events in vulnerable people.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 6d

When space weather turns turbulent, the typical 2:1 male-to-female heart attack ratio collapses to just 1.22:1. Women's baseline risk skyrockets during solar storms.

For women over 60, it gets worse: 14 female deaths vs. only 9 male deaths during disturbed periods.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 6d

💔 What if your heart attack warning should come from NASA, not just your doctor?

New research from Brazil tracked 1,340 heart attacks over 7 years and found something shocking: geomagnetic storms TRIPLE cardiac risk—especially for women.

We've been looking in the wrong direction.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 7d

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 7d

The liberation: start by ADDING diverse plant foods to every meal. Not restriction—strategic abundance.

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🔬Diet Signatures in the Gut Microbiome Across 21,561 Individuals - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦‬

Please take a look at the corresponding Substack episode.The future of health might be less about restriction and more about strategic abundanceWe've been having the wrong conversation about food. For...

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 7d

Here's the plot twist: dietary QUALITY mattered more than labels. High plant-food scores predicted beneficial bacteria regardless of whether you're an omnivore, a vegetarian, or a vegan.

The microbes don't check your identity card. They respond to what you feed them.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 7d

Vegetarians? The dairy makes all the difference. Streptococcus thermophilus from yogurt, lactic acid bacteria from cheese—they're either temporary visitors or permanent residents reshaping the neighbourhood.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 7d

The omnivore gut: bacteria built for meat & fat (Ruminococcus torques, Bilophila). Some are linked to inflammation.

The vegan gut: fibre-fermenting specialists producing butyrate compounds that literally feed & protect your intestinal cells.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 7d

Scientists can read your diet from your gut bacteria with 90% accuracy. 🦠

A study of 21,561 people reveals something wild: your microbiome creates unique dietary fingerprints. Omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans have completely different bacterial communities.

#microbiome #guthealth #plantbased

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 8d

Ever fumble with a zipper and wonder: is this just aging, or something more?
Your hands might be whispering secrets about your brain health that you're not hearing.
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#BrainHealth #Neuroscience #AgingWell

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 14d

The future? Pairing these planetary observations with LLMs like Gemini for predictive reasoning about environmental crises, resource scarcity, even geopolitical tensions.

We can finally see. What we do next is up to us.
Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 S5 E43 • 18:42

Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 14d

Here's what breaks my brain: Ecuador is notoriously cloudy—optical satellites see nothing for weeks. AEF synthesizes radar, temporal patterns, & physics models to map agricultural development anyway.

It doesn't just collect data. It understands context across space and time.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 14d

The impact is already real:

🌳 Global Ecosystems Atlas mapping unknown ecosystems
🌲 MapBiomas monitoring Amazon deforestation in real-time 🔥 Insurance firms predicting wildfire risk from environmental patterns
📡 All publicly available on Google Earth Engine

Democratized planetary intelligence.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 14d

Google DeepMind's AlphaEarth Foundations distills every 10x10m square of Earth into just 64 numbers.

16x storage reduction. 24% fewer errors. Classification from 150 examples instead of thousands.

It sees through clouds. Fills gaps in time. Creates continuous planetary records from 2017-2024.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 14d

We're drowning in planet data but can't see clearly. Finally, AI displays Earth as meaning, not noise. This changes everything. 🌍✨

Seeing the Whole Earth—AlphaEarth Foundations

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📖 Essay: helioxpodcast.substack.com

#AI #ClimateScience #EarthObservation

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 18d

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