{"id":28146,"date":"2018-02-13T14:51:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T13:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/13\/crack-and-cheese-do-things-really-affect-your-brain-like-drugs\/"},"modified":"2018-02-13T14:51:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T13:51:42","slug":"crack-and-cheese-do-things-really-affect-your-brain-like-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=28146","title":{"rendered":"Crack and cheese: do things really affect your brain &#039;like drugs&#039;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claims that cheese, sex and Facebook affect your brain in the same way as drugs fundamentally misunderstand how it all worksThe internet is a weird place. Part of this is due to how things linger rather than disappear, as they tended to do with more \u201ctraditional\u201d media. Nowadays, people\u2019s jobs can (rightly or wrongly) be endangered for tweets they wrote years ago. The adage about \u201ctoday\u2019s news is tomorrow\u2019s fish and chip papers\u201d seems no longer to apply. This is particularly true when a headline or story from years ago can be found by a group or community on a social network that missed it previously, so they share it widely and it ends up in your feeds long after it\u2019s been \u201cforgotten\u201d. It can be a bit confusing for those of us who grew up solely with televised news. It\u2019s like watching the weekend football roundup when it\u2019s suddenly interrupted by a report that the Berlin Wall has come down. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/brain-flapping\/2018\/feb\/13\/crack-and-cheese-do-pleasurable-things-really-affect-your-brain-like-drugs\" target=\"_blank\">Crack and cheese: do things really affect your brain &#039;like drugs&#039;?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims that cheese, sex and Facebook affect your brain in the same way as drugs fundamentally misunderstand how it all worksThe internet is a weird place. Part of this is due to how things linger rather than disappear, as they tended to do with more \u201ctraditional\u201d media. Nowadays, people\u2019s jobs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}