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My point specifically was about creating a save zone for the off-spring which is quite common accross all mammals and is often also directed against male sexual aggression.

http://www.mendeley.com/research/functional-aspects-of-maternal-aggression-in-mammals/

To the extend that it is established that human children can suffer from depictions of violence this is an extension of this principle.

And yes, the detrimental impact on children by violence depicted in visual media is well established as illustrated by the various references that I already included in the other comment:

http://www.apa.org/research/action/protect.aspx

http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2003/03/media-violence.aspx

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1986.tb00246.x/abstract

http://mediasmarts.ca/backgrounder/kids-net-seven-and-eight-year-olds

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/pr040527.cfm

http://www.mendeley.com/research/realtime-terahertz-color-scanner-moving-objects/
http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/37962/8/04chapter3.pdf I believe this references the L3 200 to 300 GHz ones (.2 teraherz)
Ours is a SMW passive that runs at 3 thz and is maintained by aligent. As I understand it is uncommon.

On the other hand, the seminal works on the principles of the greenhouse effect and global warming are out for about 130 years now and no one has offered the slightest bit of scientific evidence to the contrary.

The basic principles of greenhouse gases were vaguely understood 130 years ago. Figuring out the exact forcings is not easy, and we are still adjusting the numbers. The exact mechanics are quite complex and not well understood.

To get an idea of the complexity, remember that the earth's atmosphere is not actually like a greenhouse, it isn't surrounded by static glass, the atmosphere moves. As the CO2 warms, it rises. Thus calculated how long the extra energy will remain on earth before being radiated off as black-body radiation is not a trivial problem, and still not completely understood.

The sad reality is we aren't able to calculate the warming effect of the earth's atmosphere to within even 10 degrees. We are left instead trying to estimate deltas in temperature as a result of CO2 (or other changes). That's why you never hear anyone say the total amount of warming caused by CO2, you only hear them how much the temperature has changed as a result of some amount of additional CO2.

That's not even the saddest part, the saddest part is the proposed responses to the global warming possibility. If someone suggested paying an extra $10billion a year to fusion research, I would whole-heartedly support it. Instead, we have proposals of making transfer payments to poor countries, and Kyoto. Blech.

http://euc.sagepub.com/content/5/2/217.abstract

http://www.mendeley.com/research/striking-roots-crime-impact-social-welfare-spending-crime-during-great-depression/

http://www.allbusiness.com/government/international-organizations/13622477-1.html

Of course there are many more articles covering the exact same thing, the direct correlation between social welfare and reduced crime rates. The only unfortunate thing is that there is lag between increasing social welfare spending and reducing crime, the damage has been done and it takes time to re-integrate the disaffected all because of greedy screaming right wing asshats.

I think that what you want is The Ephemerizer, by Radia Perlman (she of OSPF fame). I heard about this a few years ago at the LISA conference, and a bit of digging turned it up. From the abstract:

This paper is about how to keep data for a finite time, and then make it unrecoverable after that. It is difficult to ensure that data is completely destroyed. To be available before expiration it is desirable to create backup copies. Then absolute deletion becomes difficult, because even after explicitly deleting it, copies might remain on backup media, or in swap space, or be forensically recoverable. The obvious solution is to store the data encrypted, and then delete the key after expiration.

Google turns up this copy in PDF.

Hope that helps!

Ferrofluid touch interface
Touch interface that uses Ferrofluids to provides tactile feedback
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Ferrofluid_20touch_20interface

Air-Driven Touch Interface
Using a mesh of air valves to provide a tactile interface
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Air-Driven_20Touch_20Interface

Liquid Interfaces - A Malleable, Transient, Direct-Touch Interface
http://www.mendeley.com/research/liquid-interfaces-malleable-transient-directtouch-interface-2/#page-1

You could use a stirling engine. It can convert up to 28% (as far as I know) of heat into mechanical energy. Abstract: http://www.mendeley.com/research/automotive-stirling-engine-mod-ii-design-report/ Full: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19880002196_1988002196.pdf It was mounted and tested on actual cars. The car: http://grcimagenet.grc.nasa.gov/share/scr_stillimages_detail.cfm?year=1979&cnumber=3995&c_numbertextdisplay=C-1979-3995&dis_opts=shoicons&maxcnumber=707&maxcyear=1980

I use Mendeley Desktop for this purpose. It integrates well with Microsoft Word, and provides easy citations and reference organization. It is FOSS, and works under Windows and Linux. http://www.mendeley.com/ It also has an Iphone app, but I've never used it, so I can't vouch for its usefullness.

Is there something like Zotero that *isn't* a cloud service?

Well, you could always use it without the sync feature: giving them your data is very much optional. For most users, their institution is likely only aware of Endnote, and won't set up a server for them, so Zotero's hosting the server themselves makes sense.

I'm not sure that it really meets the OP's needs, though. It fits how I work brilliantly--it's designed for indexing web pages, like a highly structured bookmark manager. But the OP specifically talks about a collection of local files, which Zotero handles rather awkwardly. Any notes would be outside the file, for example, not embedded in it. Mendeley comes closer, but AFAIK it only deals with PDFs, not all the other formats.

It does everything you want. The drawback is, it is not free software.
http://mendeley.com/

Try Mendeley. They're still pretty new, but very promising with their desktop client for Linux/Mac/Win in addition to the web interface. They also sync perfectly with Zotero and CiteULike, which makes migration easier. You can annotate PDFs directly in the desktop, but I think only the latest beta build has support for sync'ing the annotations across multiple computers. I'm hopeful for them -- it's definitely one of the most promising Ref manager systems I've seen (oh yes, they also support Bibtex,Endnote,Refworks formats heavily)

I use Zotero and Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/.

Depends largely on what your annotating and why. You might want to check out mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/ which has been pretty great for just managing documents. If your more interesting in annotating and learning a lot about what and why your annotating you might want to look into the fields of mixed methods research such as EthnoNotes.com http://www.ethnonotes.com./

Zotero is a firefox extension that can grab reserach papers directly from the journal or library web sites. It organizes the papers in collections, has keywords (they call them tags), can automatically index the PDFs. The metadata is stored also on a remote server and you can browse through it using a web interface. You also get a Word and Openoffice plugins to insert citations in the papers you write. The plugins are a little rough around the edges, but are usable. The references formatting is very robust and comes with styles for a lot of journals.

Mendeley is stand alone application. I haven't tryed it yet,but is seems to have very similar functionality.