Research band at Karolinska tuck Dylan gems into papers
(Phys.org) —A 17-year old bet among scientists at the Karolinska Institute has been a wager that whoever wrote the most articles with Dylan quotes before they retired would get a free lunch. Results included papers such as Nitric oxide and inflammation: the answer is blowing in the wind," published in 1997 in Nature Medicine. Then there was another cluster of members preparing an article about whether blood cells change and become nerve cells. They entered the title, "Blood on the tracks: a simple twist of fate." The first two nitric oxide authors repeated their effort with another paper that had "The times they are a-changin' in the title. At the same time, they emailed the "blood on tracks" authors and announced an internal competition. Lisa Reimegård chronicled their multi-year wager in KI News, the publication of the Karolinska Institute.