Don't get me wrong, the guy is cool and everything... but anyone working with as little protection as he does in our chemistry lab would be fired on-the-spot.
To my mind, this blog post had the same stilted, mechanical feel that those all talk YouTube commercials have, even when they're in an Australian accent. Nothing very bad or very good, just mid phrasing and vocabulary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y-9GbsS9Fg
Re "re-upped it": see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....