Hey everybody, Maddie Sifaya here with Emily Quang.

Hey Maddie, alright, we're gonna mix it up today.

Talk about something new by revisiting something old.

Is that some kind of riddle?

Is this a riddle show now, Quang?

No, not quite.

Today we are going back to school.

Ooh, our favorite place.

Yes, part of a new series we're launching today.

Episodes where we take something you were taught in school, maybe something you thought

you knew and go a little deeper.

And to kick things off, let me introduce you to Jorge Seglier Garcia, who pretty much inspired

this episode.

He remembers encountering science ed for the first time in his middle school chemistry

class.

Hi, grabbing Cuba and they called my class from the cave because it liked windows and had

only one light bulb.

And Jorge has this distinct memory of one time when their teacher, and Maria Farinha

walked into the cave and started the class by breading the three basic states of matter

on the chalkboard.

The three basic states of matter, solid, liquid and gas.

Their teacher then paused, turned and said, that's not all.

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