This week we discuss the idiom: 

to catch a break

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032 - to catch a break

Hey iTalkiers.

In this episode, I want to talk a little about how social media use affects mental health.

Follow this link for a complete script of the podcast.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_9SkTwtd-KeUSPIIK6fcS9MrkQEyHfN4ULZUmVM4kzE/edit?usp=sharing


Organic English

002 | How Social Media Affects Mental Health

rén lèi hé qí tā wù tǐ zài lǐ lùn shàng lái shuō ， dōu zhǐ shì yuán zǐ de jí hé 。
人类和其他物体在理论上来说，都只是原子的集合。
chéng nián rén de shēn tǐ dà gài yǒu7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 gè yuán zǐ 。(7 hòu miàn yǒu 27 gè 0)
成年人的身体大概有7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000个原子。(7后面有27个0)

zhòng suǒ zhōu zhī ， yuán zǐ zhōng chāo guò 99.9％ de bù fèn shì zhēn kōng de ， suǒ yǐ rén tǐ 99.9％ shì zhēn kōng de 。
 众所周知，原子中超过99.9％的部分是真空的，所以人体99.9％是真空的。 
rú guǒ qù chú tǐ nèi zhēn kōng de bù fèn ， rén de shēn tǐ jiāng huì tān suō chéng yī gè biān cháng xiǎo yú 1/500 lí mǐ de lì fāng tǐ 
如果去除体内真空的部分，人的身体将会坍缩成一个边长小于1/500厘米的立方体。

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草芽尖尖，
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