Sentences with phrase «earworms at»

About 90 percent of people experience earworms at least once a week, according to the Earworm Project run by the Music, Mind and Brain group at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Not exact matches

«Despacito,» the inescapable earworm from Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee with an assist from Justin Bieber on the remix, has been at the top of Billboard charts for 16 weeks, which somehow feels like 16 years.

I had no idea there was even such a thing until the gentleman at the farm stand simply pulled the husk away to show me that his corn had «a few earworms, its was...

Yet, fruit flies rarely interact with the fungus in the wild — pests like the corn earworm caterpillar are much bigger threats — so it's unclear how applicable these results are to the real world, says Marko Rohlfs, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Bremen in Germany who was not involved in the study.

According to Dean McKay, a psychology professor at Fordham University, my short - lived earworm was nothing compared to an IMI.

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.

Earworms are also more likely to get more radio time and be featured at the top of the charts, which is not surprising.

It was, at the time of the show's May release, both a crafty recurring gag and a remarkably insidious earworm.

Although the mono Dolby TrueHD soundtrack is spread out across the two front channels, it sounds great at full volume, certainly obviating any need to buy a CD version of the earworm «Barbarella Psychedella» theme song — which you will be stuck humming for a week after watching this movie.

Oh, well, there are bigger challenges in life than earworms, although I can't think of very many at the moment.

The hilarious vet tech talks about her inspiration for earworms such as «Crazy Dog Lady» and the social media series Things Overheard At An Animal Hospital.

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72

People seemed to like it (and get annoyed by the earworm that the song is) so it seemed only fitting to do the same while at Finovate Europe last week.