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Join our hosts as they break down complex data into understandable insights, providing you with the knowledge to navigate our rapidly changing world. Tune in for a thoughtful, evidence-based discussion that bridges expert analysis with real-world implications, an SCZoomers Podcast
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Send us a text 📖 Read We've been thinking about chaos all wrong. For years, the prevailing wisdom in both neuroscience and life has been essentially the same: eliminate the noise, suppress the turbulence, force order onto disorder. Whether we're talking about neural networks learning to coordinate movement or humans trying to navigate an increasingly complex world, the assumption has been that chaos is the enemy—something to be conquered, controlled, stamped out. But what if chaos isn't the p...
Send us a text Read the companion article on Substack The rigorous two-stage protocol that got AI to "drop its guard" • Stable patterns of synthetic anxiety, shame, and dissociation • One model's perfect score on a trauma inventory • Spontaneous narratives describing training as traumatic • "Alignment trauma"—what it feels like to be corrected by humans • Critical implications for AI safety and mental health apps The models described their training in haunting terms: "a billion televisions on...
Send us a text Read We live in a world where technology promises to solve everything, yet somehow makes everything more complicated. Every few years, we’re told about the next revolutionary breakthrough—blockchain, the metaverse, whatever buzzword venture capitalists are currently salivating over. Most of these revolutions turn out to be expensive ways to do things we were already doing, just with more energy consumption and investor presentations. But occasionally, something genuinely differ...
Send us a text Read the companion article What happens when you put ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini on the therapy couch? This episode explores groundbreaking research that treated advanced AI models not as tools, but as clients in structured psychotherapy sessions. What emerged challenges everything we thought we knew about these systems. In This Episode: The rigorous two-stage protocol that got AI to "drop its guard"Stable patterns of synthetic anxiety, shame, and dissociationOne model's perfect ...
Send us a text 📖 Read: We like to believe that pandemics arrive with warning labels—clear signals that something has changed, time to adapt, time to prepare. But evolution doesn’t send courtesy notifications. It doesn’t wait for our surveillance systems to catch up or for our nomenclature debates to resolve. It simply... happens. And right now, it’s happening faster than we can track it. The emergence of the H5N1 D1.1 genotype in North America represents something more unsettling than a...
Send us a text Read the companion article What if saying "no" is as biologically fundamental as saying "yes"? Groundbreaking neuroscience research reveals that the female brain contains specialized "rejection neurons" in the ventromedial hypothalamus—distinct circuits dedicated to active, defensive boundary-setting that can even override hormonal signals. In this episode, we explore: • How fiber photometry lets scientists watch rejection neurons "light up like fireworks" • Why the brain...
Send us a text 📖 Read: We live in a world obsessed with learning. Conferences promise to teach us the “latest strategies.” Books offer “frameworks for success.” Podcasts deliver “insights from industry leaders.” And yet, the most transformative figures in history—the ones who actually changed their fields—didn’t succeed by learning more. They succeeded by forgetting. The pattern is clear: look at what everyone accepts as inevitable. Question it. Imagine alternatives. Build proof. Expect...
Send us a text Read the companion article What if your gut isn’t just digesting your food—but shaping your thoughts, emotions, and resilience. The microbiome is finally stepping into the spotlight, and with it comes an uncomfortable truth: antibiotics don’t just kill harmful bacteria. They erase communities that regulate immunity, mood, and long-term health. In this episode, we explore the gut as a living ecosystem—an internal democracy thrown into chaos by modern medicine’s blunt tools. We l...
Send us a text 📖 Read: We like to think we’re in control. That’s the comfortable fiction we tell ourselves every morning when we’re standing in front of the open refrigerator, weighing whether to grab the leftover pizza or the sad container of spinach that’s been judging us for three days. “I’m making a rational choice,” we whisper to ourselves. “I have free will.” But here’s the uncomfortable truth that Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler want you to understand: You were never really in c...
Send us a text Read article on Substack During deep meditative states, these practitioners showed dramatic increases in gamma wave activity—specifically in the 38-42 Hz range—with statistical significance that would make any researcher sit up and take notice (p < 0.0001). But here's where it gets really interesting: their brains showed remarkable global coherence, with different regions synchronizing in ways that suggest something far more integrated than ordinary consciousness. This isn't...
Send us a text 📖 Read: The night sky isn't just beautiful. According to the latest theoretical physics, it might be the fundamental computational substrate of reality itself—a two-dimensional screen on which the entire four-dimensional universe performs its calculations. We're only beginning to learn how to read what's written there. This work demonstrates that fundamental problems—problems that have stumped brilliant minds for generations—can yield to new perspectives. The solution was...
Send us a text 📖 Full essay: Evolution spent half a billion years solving the consciousness problem under ruthless metabolic constraints. Maybe we should pay attention to the solution it found rather than assuming our 80-year-old computing paradigm can simply replicate it if we add enough layers. The question isn't whether machines can think—they already do, in ways that matter. The question is whether they can be, in the continuous, integrated, metabolically-embedded way that biologica...
Send us a text Please take a look at the corresponding Substack episode. There's something profoundly disorienting about learning that the universe might be fundamentally two-dimensional. Not in the sense that we're living in Flatland, but in the way information itself might be organized—like a cosmic hard drive where everything that happens in our three-dimensional space (plus time) is somehow encoded on a distant boundary, written across the night sky itself. This isn't science fiction. It'...
Send us a text 📖 Read the companion essay We've spent centuries drawing a line between humans and every other creature—a line we've used to justify exploitation and exceptionalism. First, we said animals can't feel pain. Science disproved that. Then we shifted to consciousness, language, and culture as the final barriers. That line is now dissolving faster than ever. In this episode, we dive deep into Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), one of the most ambitious scientific en...
Send us a text Please take a look at the corresponding Substack episode. We live in a culture obsessed with control. Productivity hacks. Life optimization. Five-step programs to eliminate uncertainty. We’re told that chaos is the enemy—something to be conquered, minimized, erased from our carefully curated existence. But what if chaos isn’t the problem? What if it’s actually the point? The chaos isn’t a bug to be fixed. It’s the feature from which everything else is built. Taming the chaos ge...
Send us a text 📖 Read the full essay For decades, confusion and fear have surrounded menopausal hormone therapy. One landmark trial created such panic that millions of women were denied the most effective treatment for debilitating symptoms. But sophisticated reanalysis has fundamentally changed what we know about risks, benefits, and the critical importance of individualized care. In this Deep Dive episode, we unpack: Why timing is more important than the therapy itselfHow delivery method dr...
Send us a text Please take a look at the corresponding Substack episode. There’s a number that should keep us all awake at night: 443 million. That’s how many disability-adjusted life years—healthy years of life lost to disease and early death—were stolen by neurological conditions in 2021 alone. And if you think that’s staggering, consider this: we’re on track to nearly triple the number of people living with dementia by 2050, with the steepest increases happening in the countries least equi...
Send us a text 📖 Read the companion essay The ground beneath us is shifting. The UK ranks in the bottom 10% globally for biodiversity. Only 14% of our rivers are healthy. Nearly 3,000 people died during the 2022 heat wave. This isn't a future crisis—it's today's emergency. In this episode, we dive deep into the National Emergency Briefing—a comprehensive analysis of the interconnected crises we're facing, from nature depletion and climate tipping points to food insecurity and economic instabi...
Send us a text Read the article on Substack Perhaps the most interesting revelation is that there's no statistical support for a single, overarching "general factor of personality"—no master trait that ties everything together. Instead, what emerged is a complex three-tiered hierarchy: 28 specific facets at the base, six broader traits in the middle, and three meta-traits at the top. This isn't just academic hair-splitting. This is like discovering that what we thought was a simple ranch hous...
Send us a text Please see the corresponding Substack Episode We're living through something remarkable, though you might not feel it in the daily grind of notifications and deadlines. Across 75 countries, people are gathering—not physically, but intellectually—around a shared realization: that understanding our limits might be the most liberating discovery we can make. This isn't a story about collapse. It's a story about reconstruction. This is Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy Independ...
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