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RFK Jr. is not a serious person. Don't take him seriously.3 weeks ago in Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
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The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site2 years ago in Catalogue of Organisms
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The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site2 years ago in Variety of Life
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What I read 20194 years ago in Angry by Choice
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Histological Evidence of Trauma in Dicynodont Tusks5 years ago in Chinleana
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Posted: July 21, 2018 at 03:03PM6 years ago in Field Notes
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Why doesn't all the GTA get taken up?6 years ago in RRResearch
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Harnessing innate immunity to cure HIV8 years ago in Rule of 6ix
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post doc job opportunity on ribosome biochemistry!9 years ago in Protein Evolution and Other Musings
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Blogging Microbes- Communicating Microbiology to Netizens10 years ago in Memoirs of a Defective Brain
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Re-Blog: June Was 6th Warmest Globally10 years ago in The View from a Microbiologist
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The Lure of the Obscure? Guest Post by Frank Stahl12 years ago in Sex, Genes & Evolution
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Lab Rat Moving House13 years ago in Life of a Lab Rat
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Goodbye FoS, thanks for all the laughs13 years ago in Disease Prone
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Slideshow of NASA's Stardust-NExT Mission Comet Tempel 1 Flyby13 years ago in The Large Picture Blog
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in The Biology Files
A plant pundit comments on plants, the foibles and fun of academic life, and other things of interest.
Feeding a hungry world
What's Trump?
A Trillium by any other name would still have 3 leaves
Last Friday, Last Lecture
For many different reasons this was a difficult semester, but mostly it was the additional demands being made upon us because we're terribly under staffed. There just never seemed to be enough time, so you do your best for the students, but ultimately they are the ones who get shorted, and no one is confident that our administrators understand all of this. Of course there will be some sad stories when a few students realize that they have run out of time and should have invested more effort all along. But then you have those students who improve all semester and find out that they really like learning; those are our success stories. Wish they were all that way. These are students who finally realize that you don't study for exams, you study to learn, and if you do that exams take care of themselves. That is a lesson too few students learn. You should see the looks when the Phactor tells 1st year majors that they shouldn't study for exams. They never hear the 2nd part.
Friday Fabulous Flower - ID Quiz
Watching the prairie disappear
April showers bring floods
Plant developmental morphology and Darwin
Conservationists are pagans
Glass flowers
It threatened to rain. So?
It never rains on field trips
Plant like an amateur
Ubiquitous Tropical Flora
Cost of Gasoline (petrol)
Strawberries & Indian Strawberries
Asparagus - one of the best things about spring
Sunday morning with cats
TGIF, GF & Earth Day
Friday Fabulous "Flower" - Hardy Azalea
The value of botanical gardens
Dwarf Alberta spruce advice
Here's someone who has not yet read my 10 Commandments of gardening, in particular #8. This conifer is indeed dwart, but it's hard to recommend planting one anyplace outside of a rock garden. They are so slow growing that they won't provide a decent sight barrier maybe ever. And around the midwest they tend to be fussy and prone to spider mites adding to their summer heat misery. Even without consulting the Prophet Dirr, it is written that you won't be happy with this plant. A better choice would be a columnar arbor vitae like 'Degroot's Spire'. The Phactor has spoken.
Bougainvillea bonsai
Prairie field work - spring version
RIP Sarah Jane Smith
Of insects and flowers and things
iPhone biodiversity app?
That which was lost is found - cycad cone
So disappointing to learn on a Monday
Spring Cleaning Almost Done
Tree amputees
Keeping currant
Ten Commandments of Gardening
1. Thou shalt have no other garden before you your own for yours is the one true garden.
2. Thou shalt not covet your neighbor’s (fill in the blank) for verily it’s the only decent thing they grow.
3. Thou shalt not ever disclose what you paid for a magnificent, rare specimen; price matters not in our eyes.
4. Thou shalt honor thy shrubs and allow no poodle pruning upon them.
5. Thou shalt not be concerned about non-grass components of your lawn as they add richness, texture, and diversity to the otherwise dull.
6. Thou shalt minimize lawn area as grass is an affront to our sensibilities and it provideth no food or flowers.
7. Thou shalt listen to the euonymus and always keep the weekend sacred for gardening.
8. Thou shalt consult the prophet Dirr whenever contemplating a new tree or shrub or you will suffer the presence of a mistake unto the fourth generation and beyond.
9. Thou shalt plant no solitary perennials as onesies are an abomination.
10. Thou shalt not admire your garden bereft of cocktail or wine as this is a proper offering to the gardener.
Should you have other, or better, commandments from on high, then verily part the waters and comment until content. These have yet to be chiseled into stone.