How nice to once in a while find nice references to (pop)songs in academic literature. Makes you think scientists might be human after all. Today I started reading a paper on the role of future scenarios which started like this:
“Unlike many environmental scientists (and Fleetwood Mac), most social scientists do not think yesterday has gone and do not much want to think about tomorrow—at least not in their work”
Pulver and VanDeveer 2009 in Global Environmental Political.
Another one that I really like was a bit more hidden. Anna Wesselink et al in their “Dutch Dealings with the Delta” (2007, Nature and Culture) sneaked in Paul Simons:
“I have squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises”.
Does anybody know any other examples?
Belatedly, two Beatles refs for you
ReplyDeleteWith a little help from my friends - Kai Wegerich
Fixing a hole - Ch 5 in my own PhD thesis
Cheers!
Jeroen Warner