http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/wanderingjew Questions tagged with 'wanderingjew' at Ask MetaFilter. Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:16:03 -0800 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:16:03 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/132237/Help%2Dwith%2DTradescantia%2DPallida Can I safely place a pot of Tradescantia pallida outdoors without it overrunning the garden? So this is possibly a waste of a question, but I'm a novice gardener and Googling hasn't turned up too many useful results. I love the beautiful leaves of Tradescantia pallida (wandering jew) and also the fact that it's apparently unkillable and a good first-time plant for a plant noob. I want to buy a potted one, but I can't keep it indoors. It's going to have to be outside in the garden path/garden area. <br> <br> I know this plant is highly invasive and considered a pest in some areas - is it likely to overrun the garden even from a pot? I intend to manage the spread/shape of it by cutting back sections - will this help? I am a complete beginner, in case that wasn't glaringly obvious. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2009:site.132237 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:16:03 -0800 plants pottedplants tradescantiapallida wanderingjew Ziggy500 http://ask.metafilter.com/88932/When%2DShould%2DIsaac%2DLaquedem%2DStop%2DReproducing You're the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_jew">Wandering Jew</a>. When do you start worrying about sleeping with your own descendants? You've been alive for, what, 2040 years or so, crossing the planet. You're a man of the world, of course, and you've had a few kids. In fact, you've produced one offspring every five years that has reached maturity and reproduced- 408 of them, in fact. They've reproduced as well, although they lack your immortality- let's say each of them has produced 2 heirs after an initial period of twenty years, with these heirs produced within ten years; each of these will produce 2 heirs, and so on. So, in A.D. 0, you have a single descendant; A.D. 5- 2 descendants; A.D. 10- 3; A.D. 15- 4; A.D. 20- 6 (5 children, one grandchild); A.D. 25- 9 (6 children, 3 grandchildren) and so on. Based on the LOWER population estimates located <a href="http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldhis.html">here</a>, assuming an even descendant distribution throughout the population, when should you start worrying about reproducing with your own descendants?<br> I'm not really sure if this problem can even be answered- you'd probably need to consider the poor guy's rate at which he meets people and at which he sleeps with them, which I invite you to invent on your own. I'm just wondering, for a writing project, at what point poor old Isaac Laquedem should get a vasectomy. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.88932 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:37:34 -0800 population reproduction wanderingjew 235w103