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I'm Sarah Austin-Ginness.

In this episode, lifelong learning and the pursuit of the unfamiliar, everything novel and new.

We start in Central Park with an unlikely catalyst for change,

pond scum, also known as algal blooms.

Notion Khan shared the story with us as part of a moth education showcase

when she was a high school student in New York City.

Here's Notion live at the Moth.

Raise your hand if you ever hated your high school science class. Especially chemistry.

Yeah. When I was in 10th grade, I also hated my chemistry class.

Sitting in the classroom, I was to think,

why do I have to learn all these complex chemistry words like

oxidation, reduction, spectose, something, something.

We don't see those words in our environment.

There is no connection. We don't use them.

They're pointless.

When I entered into 11th grade, I had to take the subject test for chemistry.

I was so frustrated because I never had a good relationship with chemistry,

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