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    From Tilde@21:1/5 to Jeff Barnett on Tue Jul 1 11:19:30 2025
    XPost: sci.lang, alt.usage.english

    Jeff Barnett wrote:
    On 6/28/2025 11:27 PM, HenHanna wrote:
    --
    Cows apparently produce more milk if the farmer talks to them.
    They say it's "In one ear and out the udder."

    I read something similar many years ago about human (expectant) mothers.
    If they had encouraging conversations and companionship, they produced
    more milk along with a better supply of hormones and other components of healthy and necessary body chemistry. It also seems that many
    publications claim something similar for plants. All joking aside, I am curious what/which of these stories are backed up by testable evidence.*

    * Several years ago, the TV program MYTH BUSTERS tested plants and they
    did not seem to respond. Other than that, is there any evidence for any
    of this family of myths?

    Is this it?

    https://mythresults.com/episode23

    Talking helps plants grow.
    PLAUSIBLE

    Seven small greenhouses were set up on the M5
    Industries roof. Four were set up with stereos
    playing endlessly looping recordings (as having
    the MythBusters actually talk to the plants could
    contaminate the samples with their expelled carbon
    dioxide): Two of negative speech, two of positive
    speech (Kari and Scottie each made one positive
    and one negative soundtrack), a fifth with
    classical music and a sixth with intense death
    metal music. A seventh greenhouse, used as a
    control sample, had no stereo. The greenhouses with
    the recordings of speech grew better than the
    control, regardless of whether such talk was kind
    or angry. The plants in the greenhouse with the
    recording of classical music grew better, while the
    plants in the greenhouse with the recording of
    intense death metal grew best of all.

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Tilde on Tue Jul 1 19:00:28 2025
    XPost: sci.lang, alt.usage.english

    On Tue, 1 Jul 2025 17:19:30 +0000, Tilde wrote:

    Jeff Barnett wrote:
    On 6/28/2025 11:27 PM, HenHanna wrote:
    --
    Cows apparently produce more milk if the farmer talks to them.
    They say it's "In one ear and out the udder."

    I read something similar many years ago about human (expectant) mothers.
    If they had encouraging conversations and companionship, they produced
    more milk along with a better supply of hormones and other components of
    healthy and necessary body chemistry. It also seems that many
    publications claim something similar for plants. All joking aside, I am
    curious what/which of these stories are backed up by testable evidence.*

    * Several years ago, the TV program MYTH BUSTERS tested plants and they
    did not seem to respond. Other than that, is there any evidence for any
    of this family of myths?

    Is this it?

    https://mythresults.com/episode23

    Talking helps plants grow.
    PLAUSIBLE

    Seven small greenhouses were set up on the M5
    Industries roof. Four were set up with stereos
    playing endlessly looping recordings (as having
    the MythBusters actually talk to the plants could
    contaminate the samples with their expelled carbon
    dioxide): Two of negative speech, two of positive
    speech (Kari and Scottie each made one positive
    and one negative soundtrack), a fifth with
    classical music and a sixth with intense death
    metal music. A seventh greenhouse, used as a
    control sample, had no stereo. The greenhouses with
    the recordings of speech grew better than the
    control, regardless of whether such talk was kind
    or angry. The plants in the greenhouse with the
    recording of classical music grew better, while the
    plants in the greenhouse with the recording of
    intense death metal grew best of all.


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    (as having the MythBusters actually talk to the plants could
    contaminate the samples with their expelled carbon dioxide)


    ---------- a much bigger factor must be...
    a Spray of Saliva from the Mouth


    I was at a live performance of [Our Town],
    and i had a good seat (close to the Font Seat) , and
    it was then that i realized ....

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