The blog from which that’s taken is frequently interesting and amusing. In particular, the author’s occasional series of “Things I won’t work with” is very nice. [EDIT: Where by “nice” I mean “amusing but intermittently disgusting and/or downright terrifying”.]
“Things I won’t work with” is wonderfully humorous! It continues to remind me of John D. Clark’s Ignition!, which is a delightful survey of liquid rocket propellant chemistry, in all its hazardous glory circa 1960 (which is really most of it—there hasn’t been much chemistry work in liquids since then). Print copies are hard to find, but Google will probably get you the PDF that floats around.
The blog from which that’s taken is frequently interesting and amusing. In particular, the author’s occasional series of “Things I won’t work with” is very nice. [EDIT: Where by “nice” I mean “amusing but intermittently disgusting and/or downright terrifying”.]
I’ve found his blog a very useful source for a long time about systematic problems & biases in science.
“Things I won’t work with” is wonderfully humorous! It continues to remind me of John D. Clark’s Ignition!, which is a delightful survey of liquid rocket propellant chemistry, in all its hazardous glory circa 1960 (which is really most of it—there hasn’t been much chemistry work in liquids since then). Print copies are hard to find, but Google will probably get you the PDF that floats around.