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		<title>What&#8217;s that in your ear? A worm?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the earworm. When you get a song stuck in your head, and there it stays. And stays. It pops into your head as you&#8217;re brushing your teeth, dogs you as you toss and turn at night, and springs from your lips when you&#8217;re sitting in traffic. (Or, heaven forbid, an important meeting with the new client.)
I&#8217;ve had Gordon Lightfoot&#8217;s Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in my ear ever since it popped up on Sirius radio the other day. Let me share:

So, in an effort to get the haunting tune out of my head, I started humming the other song that&#8217;s known for its earworm powers:

But then everyone around me started screaming in pain because I was singing that song in a giant endless loop. Desperate, I moved on:

No amount of head-banging, pillow-stuffing, or mouth-taping could help at this point.

Just dug up an old (2003, ooh, ancient) study about earworms. ...]]></description>
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