ShortHand: Alchemy
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RedHanded
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Turning lead into gold and living forever: that’s about the summation of our modern understanding of Alchemy. Informed by high-fantasy films and pop history, it now brings to mind dark, arcane ceremonies in castle ruins, playing God in the pursuit of limitless riches and immortality.
However, the reality is that Alchemy spanned thousands of years and countless cultures. It was the precursor to modern science, and undoubtedly changed humanity’s understanding of the world around us. This is the ShortHand.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello and welcome. |
| 0:15.0 | To show. |
| 0:17.0 | Is that how we start this show? |
| 0:21.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.9 | Sure. |
| 0:23.0 | If we hadn't had the entire displeasure of going to that awful esoteric exhibition. |
| 0:28.5 | Oh my God. |
| 0:29.5 | If you can delete that from your brain. |
| 0:31.3 | I can't. |
| 0:32.4 | It's rooted in. |
| 0:34.7 | If I said alchemy to you, what would you say? |
| 0:37.3 | I would say, gimme. |
| 0:40.5 | Let's make some gold. |
| 0:42.7 | Okay. |
| 0:43.5 | Let's make some elixir of life. |
| 0:46.4 | Okay. |
| 0:47.1 | Let's make other valuable things and sell them or use them for our personal gain. |
| 0:53.7 | Very good. |
| 0:55.0 | You're already like three levels above most people. |
| 0:57.0 | Nice. |
| 0:58.0 | Because alchemy is much more than just turning something that's not gold into gold. |
| 1:01.0 | Oh. |
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