Podcast Episodes

Science Catches Up to Conscience: How The UK's Bets on Phasing Out Animal Testing

Season 5 Episode 72

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In November 2025, the UK announced something unprecedented: a £75 million strategy to aggressively phase out animal testing—backed not primarily by et…

Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago

🧠 Creativity: Blueprint for Slower Aging

Season 5 Episode 71

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We’ve been thinking about aging all wrong.

Not the getting older part—that’s inevitable, written into our cells like a contract we never sign…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

How Babies Rewire Both Parents' Brains

Season 5 Episode 70

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What if becoming a parent changes you at the most fundamental level—your brain structure, hormonal chemistry, and neural connectivity?

This episode of Heliox: …

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

🧭 The Symbiotic Blueprint: Intelligence, Entropy, and Economics

Season 5 Episode 69

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We are living through a peculiar moment in human history. Not a crisis in the traditional sense—no apocalyptic drums, no civilization-end…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Our Internal Maps: What Ancient Navigators and London Cabbies Know About Way-Finding

Season 5 Episode 68

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What connects a Marshallese navigator who reads ocean swells with his stomach to a London taxi driver who holds 26,000 streets in memory? Both represent the abso…

Published on 4 weeks ago

🤦 The Machinery of Hope in Crisis: What the UK Inquiry Teaches Us About Building Better Systems

Season 5 Episode 67

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There is a moment, inevitable in any prolonged crisis, when you realize that the structures holding everything together were not…

Published on 1 month ago

The Ancient Origins of Dog Diversity

Season 5 Episode 66

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Everything you thought you knew about dog breeds is wrong.

For generations, we've been told that the Victorians created th…

Published on 1 month ago

🤦 The Quiet Lesson from Collective Failure: UK COVID-19 Inquiry M2 V1

Season 5 Episode 65

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What strikes me most about the unfolding narrative of governance failure during the pandemic is not the dramatic collapse of things, b…

Published on 1 month ago

The Geometry of Forgetting: What Mathematics Reveals About the Limits of Human Perception

Season 5 Episode 64

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What if your memories aren't stored files, but evolving geometric shapes in constant motion? This week, we're diving into a revolutionary kinetic model that t…

Published on 1 month ago

🦠 The Invisible War We’re Not Fighting: What “The Big One” Teaches Us About Survival

Season 5 Episode 63

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We live in a world that has become extraordinarily good at forgetting. Not the forgetting of trauma—though we do that too—but the f…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago