My Aussie friend, David Morgen-Mar writes a daily web comic using photographed Lego layouts called Irregular Webcomic. He is an incorrigible punster and the many converging and diverging story lines are wonderful to behold.

I must have missed this one back in March, but DMM has coined a new term: “Nuclear Gastronomy” (he was riffing on molecular gastronomy, but claims to be the originator on this one).

Here’s a sample of what nuclear gastronomy involves:

Chocolate Chip Gold Vein Cookies

Cream 1 cup of sugar with 250 grams of butter. Add 2 eggs and a teaspoon of baking soda. Add a splash of vanilla extract and a drop of mercury-196. Mix in 2 cups of flour to form a soft dough, and a cup of chocolate chips. Bake in a slow neutron source for at least 8 hours to convert all the mercury into gold. The gold will appear as attractive shiny flecks through the cookies, and since it is inert these will be safely edible. Warning: Do not use other isotopes of mercury, as they will produce unstable gold isotopes which can decay into highly toxic thallium!

via Irregular Webcomic! #2961.

Oh, any by the way, the comic strip is really funny, too!