AI is crying out for regulation, while virologists doing gain-of-function research take the opposite tack. Why?
1 week 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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I'm sorry to hear . . . most of that, actually. I'm fond of sycamores (never owned one, though), and lily of the valley (we inherited some as well), and had been admiring some plume poppies a year or two ago.
After nearly 30 years, our lily of the valley has taken over a dry shade area and is most welcome there. I love its tight-knit carpeting and the spring fragrance. Control is easy. (On the other hand, a much younger clump of the double-flowered form ranges far and wide in its offsets and so far just looks scruffy, although not a true pest.) I think we've tilled this patch before, but my all-time most hated plant is Houttuynia cordata. The plant is stinky when pulled, the blossoms are insignificant, it crowds in the most unwelcome places, and it responds to just about every herbicide I've reluctantly tried (including 2,4-D) as though it only had a bad cold, rather than with the death rattle I hope for. I've fought it for over 20 years. All because I fell for some catalogue hype. Talk about youthful indiscretion!
Houttuynia is definitely on my list, although presently growing within a concrete confinement where little else grew.
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