Sentences with phrase «earworm when»

Some commercial varieties of corn have been engineered with genes for a toxin borrowed from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, known as Bt, that kills the earworms when they eat the crop.

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Once that voice enters the mind, As it does when one has read hundreds and hundreds of pages of Kahlil Gibran, Its abode is fixed within, It refuses all notices of eviction, It continues to loop within the sphere of one's skull, An earworm, dread and implacable.

Earworms also vary across situations, striking when people are tired or under stress.

When they examined these participants» brain images, one pattern in particular stuck out: People who got earworms more often had a thinner right frontal cortex, which is involved in inhibition, and a thinner temporal cortex, which processes sensory stimuli like sound.

He explained to me that when we get an earworm, the tune seems to repeat itself involuntarily, which is why experts consider earworms involuntary musical imagery (INMI).

That's exactly what I had done, albeit unknowingly, when I used «The Safety Dance» to stop my earworm.

Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.

When: May 15th Why: The first film was one of the surprise hits of 2012, growing in popularity once it arrived on home video and the earworm «Cups» dominated the radio.

Not a single person on Gold Derby is predicting «The Star,» but hear me out: the mailer to promote the film, in which the song automatically plays when you open it, has proven what an incredible earworm the song is.

When I'm feeling most foul about teacher tenure laws, this song becomes my earworm.

The downside is the «earworm» sticking in your head, so you may want to save this music for when you're not home.

But the estimates of «one to seven years» means that there will be no periods in the 21st century when temperatures are low enough to keep the corn earworm from damaging crops.