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I Didn’t Just Burn Out — People Die from Overwork

Did you know the Japanese have a word for work-related sudden death?

7 min readMay 16, 2024

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Babel

Why I’m a Loud Voice in the Silent Crisis of Endangered Languages

How I’ve joined a common effort to preserve our linguistic heritage

4 min readMay 22, 2024

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A sculpture of hands holding each other together.

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The Memoirist

My Life on the Line: Trapped in Brussels Bombings Chaos

A firsthand account of the Brussels terrorist attacks on March 2016

8 min readMar 29, 2023

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A photo taken at the Brussels subway line shows one of the STIB trains stopped at an empty station. This train is similar to the vehicle that was attacked during the Brussels bombings on 22 March 2016.

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The Generator

An AI Company Offered $73 to Scan My Eyes

Can you put a price on the unique biometric data in your iris?

5 min readMar 28, 2024

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Retinal biometrics technology with man’s eye.

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Rock n’ Heavy

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Babel

Why Your Native-Speaking Brain is Lazy but Incredibly Efficient

MIT scientists find new clues on how the brain processes multiple languages

5 min read4 days ago

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Doctor arranging scanning device on head of a female patient.

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Fanfare

Why I Believe Roy Cohn Is a Foil to Trump’s Egotism in ‘The Apprentice’

Ali Abbasi’s new film, The Apprentice, portrays Trump’s rise to power in the ‘80s

6 min readMay 25, 2024

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Roy Cohn wearing a gray syuit and Donald Trump on a white suit in the movie “The Apprentice.”

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How I Watched a Meteor Streak Across Portugal’s Night Sky

A giant fireball dashed over my house in Northern Portugal in a scene that looked like something out of a movie.

4 min readMay 19, 2024

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A neon green metero looking like a laser beam.

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Date Your Mate Day and Other Special Dates in May

Alchemy challenges you to join our publications on a month-wide writing spree

5 min readMay 10, 2024

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Couple hugging on the hood of a red car.

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ALCHEMY

April’s Top Readers’ Picks: Did You Make the List?

Find your next favorite writing haven among Alchemy’s diverse publications

5 min readMay 20, 2024

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Several crystals and a sheet of paper with the writing: “The way you alchemize a soulless world into a sacred world is to treat everyone as if they are sacred until the sacred in them remembers.”

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Rui Alves

Rui Alves

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Language teacher, linguist, life coach, published author (joined the Army and worked for the EU). A publisher, digital ronin, musician and alchemist of sound.

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