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 ;Botany
-Much of the mass of trees is extracted from the air. An Australian ABC program explains that "[http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/greatmomentsinscience/trees-are-made-from-air/9675642#transcript Trees are made from air]". More precisely: The bulk of the mass of a tree is composed of {{w|cellulose}} and water.
+Almost the entire mass of a tree is made of atoms which are extracted from the air. Trees (like all photosynthetic plants) grow by extracting carbon dioxide from the air and water and nutrients from the soil and chemically recombining the atoms to form large, organic molecules (such as {{w|cellulose}}) which is then used to build the their structure. In this sense, trees can be said to be "made of" air and water. And since the water generally comes from rain which condensed from water vapor in the air, that means that air contains nearly everything that's used to form a tree's structure.
-Cellulose is a polysaccharide, a large molecule consisting of many glucose molecules (C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>12</sub>O<sub>6</sub>) bonded together. Plants make those glucose molecules through photosynthesis: they make them by combining water (H<sub>2</sub>O) and carbon dioxide molecules (CO<sub>2</sub>) using the energy from sunlight, releasing oxygen in the process (O<sub>2</sub>). Plants get the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and arguably the water also as it usually comes from rain which is condensed water vapor.
+This is counterintuitive, since trees are generally heavy, dense and solid objects, which seem fundamentally different from the air around us, which we often don't even notice. But such conversion between different types of matter is common in chemistry.
 ;Physics
-{{w|Gravity}} is the weakest of the four {{w|Fundamental interaction|fundamental forces}} in physics but also to humans the most preeminent one. In everyday experience, most people tend to think of gravity merely as a pervasive downward force, but as a physicist, Cueball is more aware that in fact, all gravitational forces are mutual; any pair of objects will exert a gravitational force on each other, regardless of how big they are. Therefore, he is correct in saying that his phone and the Earth are being "pulled together", and finds it remarkable that he is able to sense this interaction between two objects of such an disparate size even when the gravitational pull of the phone is hard to detect.
+{{w|Gravity}} is the weakest of the four {{w|Fundamental interaction|fundamental forces}} in physics but also to humans the most preeminent one. In everyday experience, most people tend to think of gravity merely as a pervasive downward force, but as a physicist, Cueball is more aware that in fact, all gravitational forces are mutual; any pair of objects will exert a gravitational force on each other, regardless of how big they are. Therefore, when he feels the weight of the phone in his hand, he understands that what he's actually feeling is the net attractive force between the phone and the planet, both of them pulling towards the other with enough force that a human can easily detect it.
 ;Computer Security
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 ;Medicine
-Doctors are well versed in {{w|human anatomy}}, and are likely to think about what is inside of people more than the average person would. And most people would actually like not to think about all the blood and bones we are all carrying around with us. Not to mention the feces (poop) or the contents of our stomach that could be considered vomit, or the urine, etc.
+Doctors are well versed in {{w|human anatomy}}, and are likely to think about what is inside of people more than the average person would. The things that are inside our bodies tend to cause a visceral reaction when we're exposed to them. As a result, most people tend not to think about them most of the time, and think of people in the terms that we're used to: seeing and experiencing only the exterior. Most people are aware, in theory, that blood, bones, feces, and other things that we find disgusting, are inside us (and the people around us), but very rarely connect that reality with our everyday reactions to them.
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 ;Medicine
-Doctors are well versed in {{w|human anatomy}}, and are likely to think about what is inside of people more than the average person would. And most people would actually like not to think about all the blood and bones we are all carrying around with us. Not to mention the poop or the contents of our stomach that could be considered vomit or the pee etc.
+Doctors are well versed in {{w|human anatomy}}, and are likely to think about what is inside of people more than the average person would. And most people would actually like not to think about all the blood and bones we are all carrying around with us. Not to mention the feces (poop) or the contents of our stomach that could be considered vomit, or the urine, etc.
 Most people do not think about that the person next to them is actually a skeleton packed in meat and animated by electricity... But Ponytail does, because she is being exposed to this fact all the time through her study of medicine.

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 * [[Megan]], a {{w|botanist}}, is struck by the fact that trees are made in large part from air, as in the carbon dioxide they consume.
-* [[Cueball]], a {{w|physicist}}, finds it weird that he can feel the gravity between an object in his hand (his phone) and the Earth. This is [[literally]] just the weight of the phone.
+* [[Cueball]], a {{w|physicist}}, finds it weird that he can feel the gravity between an object in his hand (his phone) and the Earth. This is [[725: Literally|literally]] just the weight of the phone.
 * [[Blondie]], a computer security researcher, knows of the inherent insecurity of computer systems and wonders if today is the day everyone will get hacked, collapsing our society.
 * [[Hairy]], a {{w|graphic designer}}, wonders what sequence of events drove a store's decision to use a particular recognizable font for their signage.

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 * [[Megan]], a {{w|botanist}}, is struck by the fact that trees are made in large part from air, as in the carbon dioxide they consume.
-* [[Cueball]], a {{w|physicist}}, finds it weird that he can feel the gravity between an object in his hand (his phone) and the Earth.
+* [[Cueball]], a {{w|physicist}}, finds it weird that he can feel the gravity between an object in his hand (his phone) and the Earth. This is [[literally]] just the weight of the phone.
 * [[Blondie]], a computer security researcher, knows of the inherent insecurity of computer systems and wonders if today is the day everyone will get hacked, collapsing our society.
 * [[Hairy]], a {{w|graphic designer}}, wonders what sequence of events drove a store's decision to use a particular recognizable font for their signage.

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 | number    = 2057
 | date      = October 10, 2018
-| title     = Internal Monologues of Will Allen
+| title     = Internal Monologues
-| image     = Will Allen holding fish.jpg
+| image     = internal_monologues.png
 | titletext = Haha, just kidding, everyone's already been hacked. I wonder if today's the day we find out about it.
 }}