Yeah. The earlier, more famous posts of the blog on the article were about stuff that this book gives up on using because it just can't be contained and similar.
Then the blog goes into more and more dangerous stuff...
The silver lining is that the more dangerous a substance it, the lower the odds of it actually harming anybody, because everybody reacts like the author.
I know nothing from chemistry apart from high school stuff decades ago (and wasnt very good at it), but oh boy Derek knows how to write interesting stuff for laymen, read whole series since it gets quite regular mentions here.
This is how you make people interested in more difficult topics
My high school chemistry teacher used this approach, and I thank her for it. While maybe not at the same level of chemist, she did her best to make the subject much more approachable. My physics teacher had his humorous approach as well. I can still see his hand drawn sketches on the overhead in my mind.
This is from Derek Lowe's wonderful "Things I won't work with" series from his long running blog.
Even if you're not a chemistry person, it's written in an accessible way, and usually quite humorous way.
I recommend his 2010 post on "FOOF" Dioxygen Difluoride from the same series.
[1] https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...