The Beatles Have Permeated Research Papers Across Academic Disciplines
A phys.org article reports that Beatles lyrics and references have seeped into scholarly papers across fields. In the Hacker News discussion, one commenter jokes about the headline's word 'permeate' and imagines other scientific terms decorating the story, while another wonders whether the non-seriousness of the research correlates with the permeation, asking if the limited number of Beatles songs could explain the replication crisis.
There are only so many Beatles songs. Does that explain the replication crisis??
- amiga386
The Beatles seemed to have had an effect on the youth of their day that hasn't been fully repeated since, even though there are a lot of groundbreaking, genre-defining musicians that came after them.
I was not around in the 1960s, and I was wondering if anyone who was could answer this:
It seemed to me that the Beatles set off a cultural shift in pop music. They started out in beat music, but in a few short years they brought in psychedelic culture, they adopted Indian classical music and instruments, they used tape-editing techniques in the studio to make rudimentary "electronic music"...
My question is: did they establish these shifts, or were these shifts already gaining steam independently and they popularised them?
- andrewl
I wonder how the Beatles count compares to the count of references to Alice in Wonderland, which I think are especially frequent in papers on physics and mathematics.
- insin
PopularBeatComboBench has been saturated