Eonix Papers

The History of Torture—Why We Can’t Give It Up: Some 150 years ago, the West all but abandoned torture. It has returned with a vengeance In 1849, pacifists felt history was on their side. A series of idealistic revolutions had shaken autocratic regimes across Europe the previous year, extending universal voting rights in many countries [...]

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Six Million Years of Savanna: Grasslands, Wooded Grasslands Accompanied Human Evolution ScienceDaily (Aug. 3, 2011) — University of Utah scientists used chemical isotopes in ancient soil to measure prehistoric tree cover — in effect, shade — and found that grassy, tree-dotted savannas prevailed at most East African sites where human ancestors and their ape relatives [...]

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Is Our Universe Inside a Bubble? First Observational Test of the ‘Multiverse’ ScienceDaily (Aug. 3, 2011) — The theory that our universe is contained inside a bubble, and that multiple alternative universes exist inside their own bubbles — making up the ‘multiverse’ — is, for the first time, being tested by physicists. Two research papers [...]

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Epigenetic ‘Memory’ Key to Nature Versus NurtureScienceDaily (July 25, 2011) — Researchers at the John Innes Centre have made a discovery, reported this evening (24 July) in Nature, that explains how an organism can create a biological memory of some variable condition, such as quality of nutrition or temperature. The discovery explains the mechanism of [...]

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The GOP’s Uncivil War When Congress Goes Mad By SAM SMITH http://www.counterpunch.org/smith07222011.html The GOP’s attack against an extraordinary range of once broadly accepted government principles and activities may represent the greatest rebellion against our political system since the Civil War. If this seems exaggerated, consider a bit of history. Since World War II, for example, [...]

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