• by Amy Corr  @MediaPostOTL, October 10, 2013

We’ve all heard that talking to household plants makes them grow faster. In a social media experiment for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, it’s life or death. Sort of. The museum is testing this plant-talking theory to support MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition, running from Oct. 11 through Jan. 5. Talk to a Plant invites everyone on Twitter to help test the theory. Visitors to TalkToAPlant.com can send the plant a message about anything: bacon, the government shutdown or the weather. Users can also send a tweet by using the #talktoaplant.com hashtag. A custom tweet-to-speech technology, developed by the agency using an Arduino-based device, will then read your tweet aloud to one of the plants. The other plant suffers in silence. The plants run on 12-hour light cycles and are watered by an in-house lab technician. Tune in on Wednesdays during lunch for water showings and check in on the live stream periodically to see if this myth is just that: talk. Carmichael Lynch created the campaign.