Open post Zoomers of the Sunshine Coast 🇨🇦 @SCZoomers@mstdn.ca · 4mo ago Replying to @SCZoomers@mstdn.ca HELIOX: WHERE EVIDENCE MEETS EMPATHY 🇨🇦 🧬 Hunting Disease X Beneath Our Streets Jul 4, 2026 • 1:06:44 56% of the genetic material in raw city wastewater is biologically unknown. Scientists just catalogued 17,000 previously undiscovered viruses from it — and they may hold the cure for antibiotic-resistant superbugs. This episode explores the CASPER Consortium's Wastewater Virome Database, the ethics of biological surveillance, and the stunning possibility that the next great medicine is already flowing beneath our feet. Reference: A Genome-Resolved View of the Wastewater RNA Virome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.05.636684v1 🎧 Listen: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/19420133 📖 Read: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/hunting-disease-x-beneath-our-streets 🍎 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/heliox-where-evidence-meets-empathy/id1769969487?i=1000775442094 🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6nDhoOBYBrzKcoJEce7bkm?si=6697b419f9af48fa ▶️ YouTube: https://youtu.be/pxrKnI25PGg 📻 PRX: https://exchange.prx.org/p/625488 @CDCgov@mastodon.social @who@mastodon.social @NaturePortfolio@mastodon.social @OpenScience@scholar.social @PublicHealth@mastodon.social #WastewaterEpidemiology #Virology #PublicHealth #SciencePodcast #DiseaseX #PhageTherapy #PandemicPreparedness #ScienceCommunication @who@mastodon.social #MicrobialDarkMatter #OpenScience #HelioxPodcast #EvidenceBased
Open post Zoomers of the Sunshine Coast 🇨🇦 @SCZoomers@mstdn.ca · 4mo ago Replying to @SCZoomers@mstdn.ca HELIOX: WHERE EVIDENCE MEETS EMPATHY 🇨🇦 Replacing Hot Silicon with Frictionless Light Jun 26, 2026 • S7 E20 • 51:40 The heat from your laptop is a confession. Over 80% of computing power goes to moving electrons — not thinking. The AI industry faces a thermodynamic crisis, and silicon has no answers. This episode traces three labs rewriting the rules: → Beijing: A Coherent Ising Machine using femtosecond lasers that weaponize quantum noise to find true global solutions → Berlin: Akatonix's XPU — a logic gate with zero electrons and zero heat. Time-of-flight computation. → Toronto: Xanadu weaving fault-tolerant quantum computers from entangled squeezed light. Physics stopped fighting. It started answering. 🍎 Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/heliox-where-evidence-meets-empathy/id1769969487?i=1000774347211 🎵 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/7nbzxDo15SDyWnijSj1HTs?si=39ad6f4715bd4e72 ▶️ YouTube https://youtu.be/DYhHSh7IUpM 🎧 Listen: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/19396999 📖 Read: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post/203431780 📻 Available for Broadcast on PRX https://exchange.prx.org/p/624290 @XanaduAI @mastodon.social @NaturePhotonics @mastodon.online @IEEESpectrum @mastodon.social #OpticalComputing #QuantumComputing #SciencePodcast #PhotonicAI #AIEnergy #FemtosecondLasers #IsingMachine #OpenScience #HelioxPodcast #SciComm #TechPodcast #LightBasedComputing #CanadaPodcast
