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Can Tomatoes Grow to Love Shakespeare?

Brit study puts plants-love-voices theory to the test

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 31, 2009 4:16 AM CDT

(Newser) – A tomato by any other name might taste as sweet, but will it grow as fast without the sound of a human voice? A new British study intends to find out with recordings of Shakespeare's verse and a poem by John Wyndman. The recordings will...   Read full story »

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