Extra! Extra! Pop-Culture Can Melt Brain Cells!

Researchers are using specialized imaging techniques to study the cultural processes involved in brain cell death. Here, astrocytes – the most abundant brain cell type – have been treated in-vitro with a chemical that mimics the in-vivo effect of a "pop-culture overdoses". After six days of exposition to pop-books, pop-music and pop-painting, the impact on the astrocytes was assessed using a technique called fluorescence immuno-reactivity. This microscope image clearly shows that the astrocytes are producing damage-related proteins, the green and red areas. Once the cells were re-implanted into the recipient's brain, they'd demonstrated a huge, rambunctious and boisterous desire for "quotations".

“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
A.H.