{"id":18273,"date":"2020-08-08T17:28:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T17:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=04a671694a4eb1fd42407dc376d02b4b"},"modified":"2020-08-08T17:28:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T17:28:35","slug":"what-the-internet-is-doing-to-our-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/08\/08\/what-the-internet-is-doing-to-our-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph welcomes Nicholas Carr, author of \u201cThe Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains\u201d who argues that despite it being a vast storehouse of knowledge, the internet could be turning us into superficial thinkers. Also, NY Times opinion writer, Justin Gillis, along with the executive director of the Energy Policy Institute, David Pomerantz report on the scandal of fossil fuel and nuclear companies bribing state politicians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/ralphnaderradiohour.libsyn.com\/what-the-internet-is-doing-to-our-brains\">Ralph Nader Radio Hour<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph welcomes Nicholas Carr, author of \u201cThe Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains\u201d who argues that despite it being a vast storehouse of knowledge, the internet could be turning us into superficial thinkers. Also, NY Times opinion writer,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871008,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18273\/revisions\/871008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}