Assigning and writing feature stories. Previously: Feature Health Writer and Newsletter Editor (May–Dec 2024); Health Journalist, freelance (2022–2024).
About
Journalist and host at The Epoch Times. Most of my reading lives between classical Chinese philosophy and modern science, and most of my work is an attempt to let those two traditions sit in the same room long enough to talk.
Right now, that means a documentary called Final Hours and a YouTube channel, The Upgrade, both asking, in their own way, what it means to live well.
Earlier byline Makai Allbert
Earlier work may appear under this name.
Work
Final Hours
Is Death Really the End?
Why are we here — and where do we go when it ends? Thousands have crossed the line between life and death, and come back. Final Hours gathers their testimony: what they witnessed beyond, and what it asks of the living.
The Upgrade
Conversations and essays on health, meaning, and classical thought.
Written Works
Explorations in classical philosophy, human health, and the search for meaning.
Talking
Everything They Told You About Death is Wrong
A long-form conversation on death, near-death experiences, and what they reveal about being alive.
Watch the conversation →
Philosophical Reflection on AI and Humanity: What Makes Us Truly Human?
A conversation on the ethics and philosophy of artificial intelligence, and the old questions it asks anew.
Watch the episode →Publications
PhiloBERTA: A Transformer-Based Cross-Lingual Analysis of Greek and Latin Lexicons
A cross-lingual transformer study of philosophical vocabulary across Greek and Latin, bridging computational methods with classical philology.
Fragmentation to Wholeness: A Journey Through the Interplay of Opposites
An essay on coincidentia oppositorum: how opposites, held rightly, are the grammar of wholeness.
Projects
Heart of Jade
A fully illustrated tale of suffering, faith, and the beauty carved from devotion — every word, every illustration, meticulously crafted by hand.
Aeterna Institute
A home for enduring inquiry, where classical learning meets contemporary research.
Cross-disciplinary seminars, publications, and public scholarship on the perennial questions: the good, the true, the beautiful.
Students for Falun Gong
Executive Board Member · Oct 2019 – Present
Co-founded a non-profit. Presented at the International Religious Freedom Summit; organized international conferences.
Experience
Taught Academic Writing (3-cr) and Biomedical Ethics (2-cr) through utilitarian, deontological, virtue, and normative frameworks.
NIH-funded bioelectrics research. Independent cell-viability work in BCBL-1 lymphoma cells: cell culture, nano-pulsation, electroporation, DNA sequencing, CellTiter-Glo assay.
Market research and exploratory data analysis. +277% impressions, +200% conversion rate, CPA >55% lower.
Published USGS geospatial maps under NASA / UN / USGS mentorship. Co-founded Earthquake Signal Precursors; helped launch COVID-19 Strategic Response.
Education



- Provost's Outstanding Students Award, 2020
- Academic Excellence, Biomedical Science, Spring 2020
- Academic Excellence, Liberal Arts & Sciences, Fall 2019
- First Place, Hackathon 2020
Languages
Certifications


Project Management & Research
- Agile Project Management · Google · 2025
- Foundations of Project Management · Google · 2025
- Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis · Johns Hopkins · 2025
Data & Analytics
- Google Data Analytics Specialization · Google · 2022
- Data Analysis with R Programming · Google · 2022
- Share Data Through the Art of Visualization · Google · 2022
- Analyze Data to Answer Questions · Google · 2022
- Process Data from Dirty to Clean · Google · 2022
- Prepare Data for Exploration · Google · 2022
- Ask Questions to Make Data-Driven Decisions · Google · 2021
- Foundations: Data, Data, Everywhere · Google · 2021
- Introduction to Data Analysis Using Excel · Rice University · 2021
- Visualization for Data Journalism · UIUC · 2025
Machine Learning & Programming
- Supervised Machine Learning: Regression & Classification · DeepLearning.AI · 2022
- Diabetic Retinopathy Detection with AI · Coursera · 2022
- 3D SARS-CoV-19 Protein Visualization with Biopython · Coursera · 2022
- Python for Genomic Data Science · Johns Hopkins · 2022
- Introduction to Genomic Technologies · Johns Hopkins · 2022
Humanities & Ethics
- Philosophy of Science · University of Pennsylvania · 2025
- Digital Humanities · AHRC / Oxford · 2024
- Positive Psychology · UNC Chapel Hill · 2024
- History of China · Harvard Online · 2019
- Music Theory Comprehensive · Udemy · 2019
- Life Coaching · Academy of Modern Applied Psychology · 2019
- Human Rights Defenders · Amnesty International · 2019
- Learning How to Learn · Coursera · 2022
Clinical & Lab
- Clinical Infection Prevention and Control · University of Maryland · 2022
- Biosafety and Bloodborne Pathogens · University of Maryland · 2022
Correspondence
For writing, research, teaching, or a good conversation.
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