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...addition to giving a green light to Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the lawyers involved, Obama said for the first time that he could support a bipartisan commission that would probe how government employees ended up carrying out what some view as government-approved torture. (Read "Waterboarding: A Mental and Physical Trauma...
...This withdrawal from reality, however, is extremely hazardous to our health. A growing body of research has revealed a strong correlation between excessive Internet use and mental disorders. Some neuroscientists, for instance, have suggested a possible link between the increase in online relationships and the rise in autism. Since online chatting does not require the sensitivity to tone and body language like a real conversation does, excessive reliance on online communication might cause our face-to-face communication skills to deteriorate. This leads to further social isolation as we retreat back into our online relationships...
...been used in similar studies, Hauser believes that dogs have a higher ability to follow such human cues. “Chimpanzees are much closer in many ways, in terms of genetics, but cannot follow this cue that we have been following since infancy.” While this mental sophistication might come as a surprise to some, an avid dog-lover attests to the study’s truth. “Of course it doesn’t surprise me that dogs behave more similarly to humans than chimps,” says Melissa C. Oppenheim...
...sleep deprivation for more than 96 hours. The detainees were kept awake by being forced to stand, sit or recline in uncomfortable positions, with shackled limbs. At the same time, detainees could undergo stressful treatments, including significant dietary restrictions and violence, like waterboarding and walling. (Read "Waterboarding: A Mental and Physical Trauma...
...called torture in the past, both by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (in a lawsuit about human-rights violations in the Philippines) and the U.N., on multiple occasions. Nonetheless, the Justice Department memos concluded that the use of prolonged sleep deprivation "cannot be expected to cause 'severe mental pain or suffering,' " as defined by U.S. criminal...