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Authorities in Sweden, perhaps feeling that 2016 hasn't been strange enough already, have awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan. But maybe we shouldn't be so surprised. Last year, a team at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden discovered more than 727 references to his music in the scientific literature. There is "The CRISPRs, they are a-changin': how prokaryotes generate adaptive immunity" and "Blowir' in the wind: both 'negative' and 'positive' feedback in an obscured high-z quasar". In fact, in 2014, five scientists at the Karolinska divulged their longstanding bet to see who could sneak the most Dylan references into their work.