Not a regular feature but perhaps it should be. From In The Pipeline…
One of my favorite parts of the paper is the mention (found in much of the recent high-energy materials literature) that high-nitrogen compounds are worth investigated as “green” explosives, which makes me think that the whole environmental-rationale business must be reaching its end points. The notion of a more environmentally friendly way to blow things up aside, I have to salute the paper’s authors.
You have to read the whole post to really get why that is so funny. Somebody was really reaching to come up with a worthwhile justification for some really dangerous stuff.