Who says scientists and surgeons and other “careful” professionals have to work in their antiseptic chambers without benefit of their favorite artist’s art.  Creativity in daily life can flow despite the most daunting strictures…

Five Swedish scientists have a wager on which researcher can, before retiring, insert the most Bob Dylan quotations into officially published texts (but, they stress. not their actual scientific papers).  Based at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, the researchers have been surreptitiously seasoning their editorials and reviews of dry statistical surveys with tasty Dylan croutons for the past 17 years.

The Grand Prize?  

The winning scientist gets treated to lunch by his defeated bettor colleagues.