It's not a general-purpose blog.

My B.S. in chemistry is 25 years old, and I still got the story despite not working in the field [edit:sp]since. It should make sense if you've had organic and qualitative analytical chemistry, which are sophomore- and junior-level undergrad classes. Given his audience, that's pretty reasonable.

Every field does this trolling in some form. The sentence "The proof is trivial and left as an exercise to the reader." should be familiar for everyone who studied Math.

This is an area where comment threads can shine. For most questions, if you ask it early enough then odds are that you'll get a good explanation from someone.

I never took anything past high school chemistry and I managed to understand it. It's not really that abstruse. My background is a bunch of wikipedia articles and chemistry youtube videos.