Why do we get earworms?

Photo by Mike van Schoonderwalt (and I must stress that this is NOT a photo of me) I have a very extensive CV. You could even call it ‘unwieldy’. It’s actually one of the reasons I am and remain self-employed; the very notion of having to condense that down into one or two pages of A4 makes me break out in a cold sweat. But among the many things I can claim to be on paper, I am, first and foremost, a Dad. Which means that, if and when I think of an absolutely terrible joke (which is very often), I am honour bound to share it. Unfortunately, I am a Dad who happens to have a decent media profile and online following. So when I share a terrible joke, countless innocent individuals end up suffering needlessly. But I persist, because (adopts ‘Omar from The Wire’ voice) a man got to have a code. And I adhere to the code of Dads. Which is my roundabout way of explaining this recent offence. I won’t bore you with the details of how I arrived at this ludicrous epiphany. But I am reliably ... Read full article.