One might ask: are humans too stupid to justify having a Nobel Prize in physics?

Doesn't look like Greenspun has any affiliation with Harvard. They just host his blog for some reason.

People always bring up dynamite with Nobel, like dynamite was a significant war-fighting weapon, rather than something that spurred tbe construction of the infrasructure that made modern civilization possible.

It's Bofors, and it's place among the Victorian era heavy arms cartel with Krupp and Armstrong-Vickers that he was ashamed of.