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6 2021 | Spectrum | Volume 14 Number 5
6 2020 | Spectrum | Volume 14 Number 5
Brain Candy: The New Guilty Pleasure?

SHRAVYA SHARAN

The entertainment industry
experienced a massive turnover
as the new-normal introduced
OTT platforms with unlimited
content as a replacement for
theatre and cable television
experience. With this turnover,
a bizarre trend existing in the
shadows gained momentum and
has become quite popular now.
Every viewer has at least once
subject themselves to a show
with the very purpose of mocking What getting ready to consume brain candy looks like.
or deriding it. This pattern of
hate-watching has introduced
a new term — brain candy.
Google defines brain candy as
a popular entertainment that is
not intellectually stimulating.
In simpler terms, such shows
are like junk food for the brain,
and at present, we are eagerly
consuming it.
Brain candy is often subject
to poor scripts, terrible acting
or absurd concepts that make
it unrealistic. They are usually
the perpetrator of regressive
stereotypes and mindsets
presented to belay the issues’
seriousness. It is set up for gags Trinity College Library (Dublin, Ireland)
while feigning earnestness, from an emotional distance as it source of escapism, fun and
further encouraging the viewers’ reaffirms their superiority over conversation fodder for many.
derision. possessing great taste. Most Cashing on this rising demand, Five Best Libraries
Some viewers consider ‘hate- viewers enter such shows with creators have started churning
watching’ a guilty pleasure, zero expectations in terms of out low budget shows that invite
claiming that although such shows quality. They are just looking viewers to ‘hate-watch’ it and in the World
leave a terrible aftertaste, it is for mindless content that is unbeknownst to the viewer;
like witnessing a train wreck in enjoyable, even if it is not the they gradually find themselves
motion — they just cannot look most accurate or inventive. getting addicted to a show that’s
away. Others view such shows Brain candy has become a so bad; it’s almost good. JELSIA ALEX of the Republic of Venice. It is
named after St. Mark, the patron
Reading is the best escape saint of the city, and holds the
Brainstorm: Unravelling from reality and Libraries are greatest number of collections
a paradise for people who love of classical texts in the world
the Mysteries of the Brain reading. Here are a few best closely followed by George
libraries that a reader must visit Peabody Library (Baltimore,
at least once. USA). This is also known as
RAMAY RAJ SINGH of participants from all over and how it also controls the The First on the list is Trinity Baltimore’s Cathedral of Books
and is considered one of the
the globe were present. signals that get into the body. College Library (Dublin, Ireland),
Brainstorme is a yearlong The event began with a Further, he spoke about Brain University of Dublin. It was most beautiful libraries in the
series of curated lectures on presidential address and Electrical Oscillation Signature established in 1592 by Queen world. It was found in 1878 and
designed by Baltimore architect
current topics in cognitive inauguration by Dr. LT. Col. Profiling (BEOSP) which is an Elizabeth I and is the largest Edmund G. Lind in collaboration
and clinical neuropsychology A. Ravikumar who spoke EEG technique using which a library in Ireland. The library with the first Peabody provost,
organized by the Department of about neuropsychology and its suspect’s participation in a crime is costs 10 euros to enter for visitors. Nathaniel H. Morison.
Clinical Psychology, SRMIST. A significance. The first speaker of detected by eliciting electro It was built between 1712 and
session was conducted on 29th the day was Dr. Allan Baddley, physiological impulses. It is a 1732 and has at least one copy Lastly, The New Stuttgart City
January 2021 where a number renowned for the three-component non-invasive, scientific technique of every book ever published Library (Stuttgart, Germany) is

model of working memory, with a degree of sensitivity and in the UK and Ireland. Then a building that combines age
... how the who spoke about working a neuropsychological method comes The National Library of and avant-garde. It is organized
China (Beijing, China). It the by the department of the city’s
of interrogation which is also
brain controls memory and neuropsychology referred to as brain fingerprinting. largest library in Asia. It has a cultural office and comprises the
and emphasized on the concept
the human body of the phonological loop. The The event ended with a bunch collection of over 37 million central library, 17 city district
books and holds the largest libraries, and two bookmobiles.
and how it also next session was conducted by of questions by the curious collections of Chinese literature It received the national award
Dr. C. R. Mukundan who spoke participants, all of which the
controls the about the brain representing speakers answered in a lot of and historical documents. as Library of the Year, in 2013.
Third, comes The National
After all, it was well said by
signals that get the physical world and the detail. It was the enthusiastic Library of St Mark (Venice, Walter Savage Landor, “Nothing
mind representing the virtual participation shown by the
into the body world. He explained how the audience that made the event Italy) which is a public library is pleasanter than exploring a
brain controls the human body such a grand success. founded in 1468 as the library library.”