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Now why does this matter? And I'm going to tell you an example of why this matters. I'm talking about delocalization to stabilize. And I'm talking about how the actual structure of a molecule isn't this rigid two bonds here, one bond there, that's not what that says, but it was in ozone. But it's this shared equivalent bonds where the electron is shared and the whole system is lowered. Now, there is one molecule where this is very much important and dictates all of its chemical behavior. And that's benzene. And back in the day, in the 1930s, oh, by the way, Pauling, electronegativity scale. we talked about him on Wednesday. But back in the day, they didn't know what benzene was. They could kind of measure some things. But none of it worked. And Pauling wrote a number of structural formulae have been proposed for benzene, but none of them is free from very serious objections. The way they wrote stuff. Look at these shapes for benzene. If we ...

KAREN: So what does it mean to be truly authentic, and how does this idea of authenticity impact what it means to be whole or personhood? And so, like, looking at yourself, how do you identify, and how is your identity your chosen identity based on your conceptualization of what it means to be authentically something? Does, like, how you define authenticity and your relationship to authenticity impact how you choose to identify? RACHEL: And sort of as an extension of this-- and these kind of go together. That's why we're saying them together. Do the languages, or does the language that you speak, or that your ancestors spoke affect this concept of authenticity? So if you're the son of someone whose parents spoke a language, but you don't speak it, do you feel less authentic, or does it make you feel more authentic in some manner? Or are there linguistic discourses of power that affect how you perceive the roles that the languages that you speak or that of ...