{"id":198837,"date":"2007-10-06T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/06\/alcohol-makes-you-smarter\/"},"modified":"2007-10-06T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T03:21:00","slug":"alcohol-makes-you-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/06\/alcohol-makes-you-smarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol Makes You Smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least that&#8217;s what a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/10\/03\/kiwi_boffins_prove_booze_makes_you_clever\/\">scientists at the University of Auckland, New Zealand have determined that, with rats at least, moderate alcohol consumption improves cognitive performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given my behavior at Chabad-Lubovich<sup>*<\/sup> Simchat Torah<sup>\u2020<\/sup> services a few days back, this would imply that I have a significant IQ bump for the next few days&#8230;or maybe not&#8230;the light boozers beat the tea-totaling rats, but they both beat the heavy boozers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><sup>*<\/sup>An Orthodox Jewish outreach group.<br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup>It celebrates the fact that we have finished Torah readings for the year, and we start back at the beginning.  It&#8217;s traditional to consume mass quantities at this event.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least that&#8217;s what a scientists at the University of Auckland, New Zealand have determined that, with rats at least, moderate alcohol consumption improves cognitive performance. Given my behavior at Chabad-Lubovich* Simchat Torah\u2020 services a few days back, this would imply that I have a significant IQ bump for the next few days&#8230;or maybe not&#8230;the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1012,1021,1069],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-food","category-religion","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}