You've probably never given much thought to the ice cube
swirling amid the contents of your Cuba Libre. When watching
Titanic, you probably don't ponder how the iceberg that did the
ship in is actually a great example of why we have life on
earth. We all know that water is kind of important. While not
the most exciting of drinks, just try going more than a few
hours without taking a sip. But there's something extra-special
about water that makes it one of the strangest substances on
earth. To understand water's wackiness, you first need to
understand how things are "supposed" to work. Think back, way
back, to science class and you might remember talking about the
three states of matter: Solids, liquids and gases. The molecules
of a gas are very bouncy and far apart. As the gas cools, the
molecules get closer together, condensing into a liquid. Cool
that liquid even more and the molecules squeeze even more
tightly together into a solid. But water is weird. Unlike almost
every other substance on earth, as it fr