Oh dear - a glance at the typography tells you all you need to know....
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I somewhat disagree with part of this article. There is a wonderful program on the Discovery Channel called Mythbusters <A href="http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mythbusters.html"><a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mythbusters.html</A></P><br /> <P">http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mythbusters.html</A></P><br /> <P</a> class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">They try and bust myths with science with a fairly good success rate. There was an episode where they tried to see if music or talking had any influence on plant growth. They prepared four or five separate green houses each with their own sound system, which played either classical, blues, silence, and heavy meat rock, ect. The plants subjected to the heavy metal rock surprisingly grew the quickest and healthiest. Go figure. Here is an article describing the episode from another blog: copy/paste</P><br /> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P><br /> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Talking to plants.<SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"></SPAN></P><br /> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Build team testing how talking to plants (positive/negative) affects growth of plants. Also testing different types of music.</SPAN></P><br /> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Seven greenhouses on Jamie's roof</SPAN></P><br /> <UL type=disc><br /> <LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">silence </LI><br /> <LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">heavy metal </LI><br /> <LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">classical </LI><br /> <LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">2 sweet talk </LI><br /> <LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in">2 abused </LI></UL><br /> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">27 days: sweet-talking plants doing a bit better than the verbally abused plants.</SPAN></P><br /> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">2 months: all the plants are dying. Battery for timer feeding the water system died.</SPAN></P><br /> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">To recover the experiment, decided to wash plants and weigh plant mass.</SPAN></P><br /> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Metal house the best performer by far</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, with classical in second. Talking nice/nasty made no difference. Kari's nice house did better, but Scottie's was the opposite. Silent house was the worst performer.</SPAN></P><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Plausible</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> (not confirmed, given that the experiment wasn't really scientifically valid)</SPAN>
Leonardo