{"id":7343,"date":"2011-04-11T15:15:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T15:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/11\/of-worm-turns\/"},"modified":"2011-04-11T15:15:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T15:15:03","slug":"of-worm-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/11\/of-worm-turns\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Worm Turns"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

A couple of CCCC talks about big-T turns started me thinking again about “worm turns,” a phrase I read just before the Atlanta trip in Randy A. Harris’s introduction to Landmark Essays in the Rhetoric of Science<\/em>. I understood worm turns at first to mean something like “micro turns,” or smaller-scale zig-zag patterns. But, no. Worm turns–so the commonplace goes–name something of an unexpected shift in momentum, as when a downtrodden underdog (e.g., Rockworm Balboa) bounds back into a position of strength. Worm turns: the weak worm, resurgent.<\/p>\n

I didn’t know this until earlier today, but Chemist Mickey Mouse was once in a cartoon called “The Worm Turns” (1937), in which he activated more powerful physical profiles for worm, mouse, cat, and dog.<\/p>\n