Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦
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🧠 Creativity: Blueprint for Slower Aging - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦
Please see the corresponding Substack episodeWe’ve been thinking about aging all wrong.Not the getting older part—that’s inevitable, written into our cells like a contract we never signed. But the par...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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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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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
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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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?
Available for Broadcast on PRX: exchange.prx.org/p/598409
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.
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
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.
This changes everything about how we think about aging well.
The intervention isn't expensive. It's not complicated. It's accessible to everyone.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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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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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
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?
Available for Broadcast on PRX: exchange.prx.org/p/597921
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?
Available for Broadcast on PRX: exchange.prx.org/p/597921
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.
🔒 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
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.
🔒 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
→ 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
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.
→ Land (10,000 years)
→ Labor (1780+)
→ Capital (2000+)
→ Intelligence (NOW)
Each one reshaped civilization. This one is different.
This one is final.
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.
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
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.
Once it happens, you can't reverse it by turning down the heat. The new state locks in.
We're in that window now.
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Pandemic Inquiry, Government Accountability, Public Health, Systemic Failure, Institutional Change
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Pandemic Inquiry, Government Accountability, Public Health, Systemic Failure, Institutional Change
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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@CBC @TVO @Guardian @ProPublica @Canadaland
Pandemic Inquiry, Government Accountability, Public Health, Systemic Failure, Institutional Change
📖 Read: helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post...
Available for Broadcast on PRX exchange.prx.org/p/597334
@CBC @TVO @Guardian @ProPublica @Canadaland
Pandemic Inquiry, Government Accountability, Public Health, Systemic Failure, Institutional Change
The machinery of hope isn't built by luck. It's built by deliberate choices made now, before the crisis arrives. Foresight beats fortune.
Listen to the full episode and discover how we rebuild institutions with wisdom and foresight.
Listen to the full episode and discover how we rebuild institutions with wisdom and foresight.
🤦 The Machinery of Hope in Crisis: What the UK Inquiry Teaches Us About Building Better Systems - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦
Please have a look at our corresponding Substack episode.There is a moment, inevitable in any prolonged crisis, when you realize that the structures holding everything together were not built for this...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The machinery of hope isn't built by luck. It's built by deliberate choices made now, before the crisis arrives. Foresight beats fortune.
Listen to the full episode and discover how we rebuild institutions with wisdom and foresight.
Listen to the full episode and discover how we rebuild institutions with wisdom and foresight.
The solution isn't better org charts. It's a better relational infrastructure. It's creating systems that force the right people to talk constantly. That matters in pandemics. It matters in your workplace. It matters how we prepare for the next crisis.
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The solution isn't better org charts. It's a better relational infrastructure. It's creating systems that force the right people to talk constantly. That matters in pandemics. It matters in your workplace. It matters how we prepare for the next crisis.
But here's the unexpected hope: 274 Chief Medical Officer meetings coordinated brilliantly. Operations worked. The lesson? Systems built on relationship, constant communication, and commitment to shared outcomes can succeed even when formal structures collapse.
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
But here's the unexpected hope: 274 Chief Medical Officer meetings coordinated brilliantly. Operations worked. The lesson? Systems built on relationship, constant communication, and commitment to shared outcomes can succeed even when formal structures collapse.
The UK COVID-19 Inquiry exposes what happens when systems designed for peace face plague. Disabled people weren't formally considered until 2 months into lockdown. Ethnicity data gaps delayed the understanding of disproportionate harm. A six-week lockdown delay cost thousands of avoidable deaths.
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The UK COVID-19 Inquiry exposes what happens when systems designed for peace face plague. Disabled people weren't formally considered until 2 months into lockdown. Ethnicity data gaps delayed the understanding of disproportionate harm. A six-week lockdown delay cost thousands of avoidable deaths.
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#CovidInquiry #Governance #PublicHealth #PandemicResponse #Science #PRX
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#CovidInquiry #Governance #PublicHealth #PandemicResponse #Science #PRX
🤦 The Quiet Lesson from Collective Failure: UK COVID-19 Inquiry M2 V1 - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦
Please take a look at our related Substack episode.What strikes me most about the unfolding narrative of governance failure during the pandemic is not the dramatic collapse of things, but the quiet, i...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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#CovidInquiry #Governance #PublicHealth #PandemicResponse #Science #PRX
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#CovidInquiry #Governance #PublicHealth #PandemicResponse #Science #PRX
The core lesson: facing exponential growth demands earlier, harder interventions—even imperfectly informed. Delaying isn't neutrality. It's a decision. And that decision carried the highest possible price: lives.
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The core lesson: facing exponential growth demands earlier, harder interventions—even imperfectly informed. Delaying isn't neutrality. It's a decision. And that decision carried the highest possible price: lives.