{"id":2609,"date":"2009-06-24T07:01:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T11:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2009-06-23T13:09:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T17:09:48","slug":"plant-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2609","title":{"rendered":"Plant Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t science fiction or even the sort of space science that we usually mention here, but yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/\">Discoblog<\/a> linked to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/earthnews\/5602419\/Womens-voices-make-plants-grow-faster-finds-Royal-Horticultural-Society.html\">article<\/a> detailing a study which suggests that talking to your plants actually <em>can<\/em> make them grow better.  Researchers recorded volunteer &#8220;plant whisperers&#8221; and played the recordings to tomato plants (via headphones attached to the plants at root level, which I find endlessly amusing).  Plants that were talked to demonstrated greater growth than a control group, and womens&#8217; voices seemed to work better than mens&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that makes me happiest about this article is the information that one of the recordings played to the tomatoes was a reading from <i>Day of the Triffids<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t science fiction or even the sort of space science that we usually mention here, but yesterday Discoblog linked to an article detailing a study which suggests that talking to your plants actually can make them grow better. Researchers recorded volunteer &#8220;plant whisperers&#8221; and played the recordings to tomato plants (via headphones attached to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}