Sentences with phrase «of earworms»

Studies of earworms can help to understand how brain networks, which are involved in perception, emotions, memory and spontaneous thoughts, behave in different people, the authors said.

These songs, often called earworms, are usually faster, with a fairly generic and easy - to - remember melody but with some particular intervals, such as leaps or repetitions that set them apart from the average pop song, according to the first large - scale study of earworms.

The music is just as catchy, and they managed to embed a couple of earworms I can't seem to shake.

«A MILLION DREAMS» — Just as much of an earworm and right in line with the Broadway feel of all the others.

Almost as much of an earworm as the «dog in a trenchcoat» version.

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.

The soundtrack is replete with exhilarating battle themes, but I purchased my copy in the hopes that I could finally purge my brain of the earworm that is the

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.

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.

Of particular success was the use of fungi antagonistic to soil pathogens from the genus Trichoderma and the use of fungal spores from the genus Beauveria for control of the corn earworm, a major pest of maizOf particular success was the use of fungi antagonistic to soil pathogens from the genus Trichoderma and the use of fungal spores from the genus Beauveria for control of the corn earworm, a major pest of maizof fungi antagonistic to soil pathogens from the genus Trichoderma and the use of fungal spores from the genus Beauveria for control of the corn earworm, a major pest of maizof fungal spores from the genus Beauveria for control of the corn earworm, a major pest of maizof the corn earworm, a major pest of maizof maize.

The New York League of Conservation Voters is out with a new radio ad slamming its No. 1 Democratic primary target that features a catchy Calypso tune with definite earworm potential and the refrain: «Anyone is better than Bill Stachowski.»

In particular, researchers analyzed 21 years of data from Maryland cornfields and suggest that rising temperatures might help corn earworms (Helicoverpa zea) develop resistance faster to a widespread genetically built - in crop protection.

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.

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.

McKay says my earworm was pesky because I knew only that one part of the song.

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.

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.

They used bat detectors and insect pheromone traps to monitor nightly bat activity, as well as the abundance of the corn earworm moth — a tasty treat for bats and also one of the world's most destructive crop pests.

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

The researchers asked 3,000 people to name their most frequent earworm tunes and compared these to tunes that had never been named as earworms in the database but were a match in terms of popularity and how recently they had been in the United Kingdom music charts.

In addition to «Bad Romance,» examples of common earworms named in the study include «Don't Stop Believing» by Journey and, perhaps not surprisingly, «Can't Get You Out Of My Head» by Kylie Minoguof common earworms named in the study include «Don't Stop Believing» by Journey and, perhaps not surprisingly, «Can't Get You Out Of My Head» by Kylie MinoguOf My Head» by Kylie Minogue.

Those with a warped sense of humor, or a keen ear for stellar 80s pop music, have probably got a Carly Simon - shaped earworm burrowing deep into your aural passageways right about now.

Through repeated viewings and earworm quotes, they create My List of Best Romantic Comedy Korean Drama - Most Recommended, My List of Best Romantic Comedy Korean Drama in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 - Most

Having recently returned from Disney World, where «The Festival of the Lion King» earwormed that soundtrack into my brain again, I find myself frantically trying to rewrite «I Just Can't Wait to Be King» for Prince T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) who we last saw mourning his king and proving something of a surprise moral center to the squabbling superheroes of Captain America: Civil War (2016).

Francis Lawrence shoots everything with that backdrop visible; skulls and skeletons of obliterated civilians creep into the edge of the frame, while a beautiful off - the - cuff rendition of The Hanging Tree (by Katniss, with a hint of Lawrence's Winters Bone) is swiftly packaged up by the propaganda machine and turned into an earworm calling people to action.

But it more than stands on its own, thanks to its thoughtful coming - of - age story rooted in South Pacific folklore, a fun performance from Dwayne Johnson, and its earworm - y songs by Lin - Manuel Miranda and Opetaia.

Although they're more hit and miss than their inevitable EGOT would suggest, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have a knack for generating insidious earworms, and of the nine songs they contribute to The Greatest Showman, a good three are genuinely memorable.

But the inadvertent earworm of I, Tonya, a work of sonic bombardment, is Kerrigan's wail after she's struck: Why?

For the second year in a row, we have a rousing earworm from a Disney film — last year Moana's «How Far I'll Go,» this year Coco's «Remember Me» — up against the wunderkind duo of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who won last year for La La Land's «City of Stars,» went on to win two Tonys and a Grammy for Dear Evan Hansen, and are now back with «This Is Me» from The Greatest Showman.

But it doesn't have the earworm endurance of «City Of Stars,» around which so much of La La Land's bittersweet power is builof «City Of Stars,» around which so much of La La Land's bittersweet power is builOf Stars,» around which so much of La La Land's bittersweet power is builof La La Land's bittersweet power is built.

The thread that pulls it all together is Mica Levi's score, an undulation of keening strings that will burrow its way into your mind, an earworm as simultaneously seductive and frightening as Johansson's creature.

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

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.

There are some heavy hitters in the competition this year, many of them, as usual, coming from Disney and Pixar — Tim Rice and Alan Menken, the team behind «Evermore,» also brought us «A Whole New World,» and the Coco team of Kristen Anderson - Lopez and Robert Lopez wrote the earworm of the century with «Let It Go.»

Now that I've read it all, can you tell me how I get the «Diamonds are forever, forever...» earworm out of my head?

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

Throw in a soundtrack of solid gold earworms and hundreds of hours of hypnotic side quests, and by the time you're done with this, your body will have sprouted a few grassy fields of its own.

An interesting mix of above ground and underwater sections, not to mention an earworm of a track theme which would muffle as you went under the sea all come together to create an incredibly fun course.

It takes classic Mushroom Kingdom earworms (particular kudos to World 4 - 1's subtle use of the Super Mario Bros underground theme) as well as original tunes, and remixes them so that they sound as though they're being parped out by a 1950s fairground ride.

The Battle of Olympus features bright, colorful graphics, an earworm of a score, tight controls and an epic sense of scope.

I'm not usually a fan of fast and trashy music, but some of composer Yukio Kallio's simple riffs are deceptive earworms.

The lazy echoes and deep thumping cuts warm the environment for the works and the listener, as the sounds resounding through the gallery recall the empty, repetitive lulls of easy listening music or the earworms attributed to pop or house dance beats.

That's a huge deal, given that the article points out that corn earworms destroy 2 % of the corn crop in the U.S.

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.

For example, temperatures in Iowa, the top US corn producing state, were suitable for corn earworm survival in zero to three years of every 24 years in the 20th Century.

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