The Phytophactor

Azure beauty berry Callicarpa dichotoma (Verbena family). Generally when it comes of fall color you think of plants whose leaves turn a nic...

The Swiss ethics committee has declared that plant scientists are not allowed to do research that offends the dignity of plants. This initi...

A young former colleague of mine was found dead in his apartment a couple of weeks ago. I just found out because his apartment is a couple o...

Too much blogging about academic life and politics was getting me down. Plants are much more fun and interesting. So to improve my outlook t...

I generally avoid being political, but something occurred to me and it struck me as important enough to share. John McCain touts his status ...

Yes folks, our great institution of higher learning located here in the maize and soybean desert of Lincoln land has hired itself a new prov...

There are times when I wonder why I am in the business of education. These mostly occur when dealing with the bureaucracy, including the sil...

This morning brought the news that David Foster Wallace had died at the age of 46 by his own hand. Wallace was a member of our faculty for ...

As a member of a biological sciences faculty, I regularly get to interact with colleagues with very different expertises. What a joy! Among ...

As part of a totally bizarre rant about masonic conspiracy and the control of higher education by the occult elite, David Flynn demonstrate...