In the past few decades,there own been more than 700 sneaky references to the musician in otherwise serious papers. Oh mercy! But he’s not the only artist whose work has been smuggled in to unlikely surroundingsLet it be noted that the scientific community is not without a sense of humour. It emerged yesterday that, since the 1970s, and boffins own been sneakily inserting Bob Dylan song titles into their research papers. From a stem cell investigation entitled Like a Rolling Histone to a paper called Tangled up in Blue: Molecular Cardiology in the Postmolecular Era,our boffins own been getting better at working in their little joke, creating a masterly fusion of science and Dylanology. It won’t be long before they start pitching for research projects purely for the sake of working in the titles: a study on the recurring effects of precipitation on tarmac named Highway 61 Revisited, and perhaps? Related: Readers recommend - songs approximately science Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com