AI is crying out for regulation, while virologists doing gain-of-function research take the opposite tack. Why?
3 days ago in Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
A plant pundit comments on plants, the foibles and fun of academic life, and other things of interest.
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For my money, any plant supplier that sells Houttuynia without stern instructions to confine it without fail should be strung up in the town square. I bought a variegated one 25 years ago and thought it was cute--for one year. At that time, no one--NO ONE--warned of its rapacious ways. It isn't even in a particularly favorable spot, soil- or moisture- wise. One of the most pestiferous things I ever put in the garden, and it's a struggle to keep it more or less in one area where I can almost tolerate it. Not only that, the plant stinks, figuratively and literally. This year, despite my aversion to strong herbicides, I've started fighting it with 2,4-D (since glyphosphate only tempered it a bit) and just today noticed I'm having some success. What was it we were saying about weeds yesterday?
Eric - don't ever plant a plume poppy! The single biggest most aggressively invasive plant we ever deliberately planted! But no question about it, keep Houttuynia under check from the get go! So you're right, my warning wasn't stern enough!!! Mrs. Phactor adds, "Watch out for gooseneck loosestrife too!" She's been waging war on this for years.
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