The Phytophactor

An emeritus professor has a small office across the hall, but declining health has kept him from using it very often these past couple of ye...

When you publish in science, you must place your research into context, that is, you must show how your work relates to all other work relev...

Processes always have quite a number of more or less continuous steps leading from here to there, from a start to a finish, but for purposes...

Let's save money by shutting down the university between Christmas and New Year's Day. Hard to argue with the basic concept, but the...

How does that song go? If you want to be happy for you academic life, never make a pretty woman your wife; no, that’s not right! For a happy...

The Phactor's real-life alter ego has been a busy scholar of botany. During May, two manuscripts were completed, one start to finish, on...

While writing a review paper, it was necessary to read several of my own research papers of circa 20 years ago to refresh the old memory. Th...