<![CDATA[Scivillage.com Casual Discussion Science Forum - Academic Resources]]> https://www.scivillage.com/ Mon, 25 May 2026 16:03:31 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[81 famous and great journals]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-20443.html Fri, 15 May 2026 06:15:57 +0000 Magical Realist]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-20443.html
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1057...nd_Diaries]]>
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1057...nd_Diaries]]> <![CDATA[Stanford Emerging Technology Review]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-20144.html Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:31:16 +0000 Yazata]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-20144.html
https://setr.stanford.edu/sites/default/...260219.pdf

They describe the nature, opportunities and challenges of a number of the most important emerging technologies.

Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of computers to perform functions associated with the human brain, including perceiving, reasoning, learning, interacting, problem solving, and exercising creativity. AI promises to be a fundamental enabler of technological advancement and progress in many fields, arguably as important as electricity or the internet. AI has three core subfields; the boundaries between them are often fluid - Computer vision (CV), Machine learning (ML), and Natural language processing (NLP). There is substantial debate among AI experts about whether AI poses a long-term existential risk to humans, and whether the most important risks are also current weaknesses of AI.

Biotechnology & Synthetic Biology
Biotechnology is burgeoning, contributing around 5 percent to the US GDP with a historical doubling time of about seven years and creates products or services in partnership with biology. For example, skin microbes can be engineered to combat skin cancer and essential medicines can be brewed from yeast at industrial scales. Biotechnology, already a huge industry—5 percent of GDP— is expected to grow greatly. Synthetic biology, a subset of biotechnology, builds on genetic engineering to focus on improving the composition and functions of living systems. DNA sequencing and synthesis are two fundamental technologies underlying synthetic biology. DNA sequencers are machines that read or decode specific DNA molecules, while synthesizers write user-specified sequences of DNA.

Cryptography and Computer Security
Cryptography is the practice of protecting data from being altered or accessed inappropriately. It is essential for most internet activity, including messaging, e-commerce, and banking. There are two main types of cryptography: symmetric and asymmetric. Symmetric cryptography requires both parties to share one secret key to encrypt and decrypt data. In practice, sharing this secret key can be difficult. This led to the development of asymmetric encryption, which uses one public key, freely available to anyone, to encrypt data and a different private key to decrypt data. Cryptography is essential for protecting information but will never be enough to secure cyberspace.

Energy Technologies
The transition to sustainable energy relies on improving every step of the energy supply chain, from generation to transmission to storage. However, the sheer scale of global energy needs makes it clear that no single technology can meet these demands. Success will require a combination of approaches that bridge present sources, consumption, and infrastructure to a more sustainable future. The imperative to deliver energy at scale unavoidably places an emphasis on cost. High-cost technologies, whether new or old, no matter how promising, cannot be deployed on a wide scale.

Materials Science
Materials science is a foundational technology that underlies advances in many fields, including robotics, space, energy, and synthetic biology. Broadly speaking, materials science and engineering research focuses on four major areas. The first is characterizing the properties of materials to derive a material structure-property relationship. The second is modeling materials, which involves predicting material properties based on atomistic principles. The third is establishing synthesis methods of materials to attain specific properties as predicted. The fourth area is manufacturing and processing materials with well-characterized properties in sufficient quantities for practical applications.

Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the study of the human brain and the nervous system, their structure and function, healthy and diseased states, and life cycle from embryonic development to degeneration in later years. Popular interest in neuroscience vastly exceeds the current scientific understanding of the brain, giving rise to overhyped claims in the public domain that revolutionary advances are just around the corner. Already a $32 billion market in 2021, the market for such products based on neuroscience is forecast to grow nearly 4 percent annually this decade to $41 billion, driven by increasing cases of neurological disorders like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

Quantum Technologies
Quantum technologies are based on the physics of quantum mechanics, which emerged early in the twentieth century. Since then, quantum mechanics has shaped many technologies, from nuclear weapons to the transistors in smartphones to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines in hospitals. But in these applications, the constituent atoms have been controlled in aggregate, with large, uncontrolled groups of particles all in multiple states manipulated together as an ensemble.

Robotics
Robotics has and will transform many industries through elimination, modification, or creation of jobs and functions. Researchers do agree that, at the very least, robots are human-made physical entities with ways of sensing themselves or the world around them and the ability to create physical effects on that world. Importantly, robots must integrate many different component technologies to combine perception of their environment with action. Component technologies include actuators (e.g., motors, arms, gears), sensors, control systems, materials, power sources, and real-time programming. As a result, it takes a large interdisciplinary effort to move from a working prototype to a mass-produced robot in the market.

Semiconductors
A semiconductor is a material whose ability to conduct electricity lies between those of metals (with high electrical conductivity) and insulators (with low conductivity). Semiconductors, or microchips, are crucial components used in everything from refrigerators and toys to smartphones, cars, computers, and fighter jets. These microchips are ubiquitous in modern medical equipment. Imaging devices such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), and ultrasound use embedded computers to generate images from electromagnetic radiation and sound waves that penetrate or emanate from the human body. Across these examples, innovation in chip design, new materials, and integration methods helps enable the performance, size, and efficiency of medical devices.

Space
By definition, space technology is any technology developed for the purpose of conducting or supporting activities beyond the Kármán line (i.e., one hundred kilometers or sixty-two miles above the Earth’s surface). Space technologies are increasingly critical to everyday life (e.g., GPS navigation, banking, missile defense, internet access, remote sensing). Space is a finite planetary resource. Dramatic increases in satellites, debris, and competition are threatening access to this global commons. Private-sector actors play a critical and growing role in many aspects of space-based activities (e.g., launch, vehicles, and communications), because they offer better, cheaper, and rapidly deployable capabilities.]]>
https://setr.stanford.edu/sites/default/...260219.pdf

They describe the nature, opportunities and challenges of a number of the most important emerging technologies.

Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of computers to perform functions associated with the human brain, including perceiving, reasoning, learning, interacting, problem solving, and exercising creativity. AI promises to be a fundamental enabler of technological advancement and progress in many fields, arguably as important as electricity or the internet. AI has three core subfields; the boundaries between them are often fluid - Computer vision (CV), Machine learning (ML), and Natural language processing (NLP). There is substantial debate among AI experts about whether AI poses a long-term existential risk to humans, and whether the most important risks are also current weaknesses of AI.

Biotechnology & Synthetic Biology
Biotechnology is burgeoning, contributing around 5 percent to the US GDP with a historical doubling time of about seven years and creates products or services in partnership with biology. For example, skin microbes can be engineered to combat skin cancer and essential medicines can be brewed from yeast at industrial scales. Biotechnology, already a huge industry—5 percent of GDP— is expected to grow greatly. Synthetic biology, a subset of biotechnology, builds on genetic engineering to focus on improving the composition and functions of living systems. DNA sequencing and synthesis are two fundamental technologies underlying synthetic biology. DNA sequencers are machines that read or decode specific DNA molecules, while synthesizers write user-specified sequences of DNA.

Cryptography and Computer Security
Cryptography is the practice of protecting data from being altered or accessed inappropriately. It is essential for most internet activity, including messaging, e-commerce, and banking. There are two main types of cryptography: symmetric and asymmetric. Symmetric cryptography requires both parties to share one secret key to encrypt and decrypt data. In practice, sharing this secret key can be difficult. This led to the development of asymmetric encryption, which uses one public key, freely available to anyone, to encrypt data and a different private key to decrypt data. Cryptography is essential for protecting information but will never be enough to secure cyberspace.

Energy Technologies
The transition to sustainable energy relies on improving every step of the energy supply chain, from generation to transmission to storage. However, the sheer scale of global energy needs makes it clear that no single technology can meet these demands. Success will require a combination of approaches that bridge present sources, consumption, and infrastructure to a more sustainable future. The imperative to deliver energy at scale unavoidably places an emphasis on cost. High-cost technologies, whether new or old, no matter how promising, cannot be deployed on a wide scale.

Materials Science
Materials science is a foundational technology that underlies advances in many fields, including robotics, space, energy, and synthetic biology. Broadly speaking, materials science and engineering research focuses on four major areas. The first is characterizing the properties of materials to derive a material structure-property relationship. The second is modeling materials, which involves predicting material properties based on atomistic principles. The third is establishing synthesis methods of materials to attain specific properties as predicted. The fourth area is manufacturing and processing materials with well-characterized properties in sufficient quantities for practical applications.

Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the study of the human brain and the nervous system, their structure and function, healthy and diseased states, and life cycle from embryonic development to degeneration in later years. Popular interest in neuroscience vastly exceeds the current scientific understanding of the brain, giving rise to overhyped claims in the public domain that revolutionary advances are just around the corner. Already a $32 billion market in 2021, the market for such products based on neuroscience is forecast to grow nearly 4 percent annually this decade to $41 billion, driven by increasing cases of neurological disorders like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.

Quantum Technologies
Quantum technologies are based on the physics of quantum mechanics, which emerged early in the twentieth century. Since then, quantum mechanics has shaped many technologies, from nuclear weapons to the transistors in smartphones to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines in hospitals. But in these applications, the constituent atoms have been controlled in aggregate, with large, uncontrolled groups of particles all in multiple states manipulated together as an ensemble.

Robotics
Robotics has and will transform many industries through elimination, modification, or creation of jobs and functions. Researchers do agree that, at the very least, robots are human-made physical entities with ways of sensing themselves or the world around them and the ability to create physical effects on that world. Importantly, robots must integrate many different component technologies to combine perception of their environment with action. Component technologies include actuators (e.g., motors, arms, gears), sensors, control systems, materials, power sources, and real-time programming. As a result, it takes a large interdisciplinary effort to move from a working prototype to a mass-produced robot in the market.

Semiconductors
A semiconductor is a material whose ability to conduct electricity lies between those of metals (with high electrical conductivity) and insulators (with low conductivity). Semiconductors, or microchips, are crucial components used in everything from refrigerators and toys to smartphones, cars, computers, and fighter jets. These microchips are ubiquitous in modern medical equipment. Imaging devices such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), and ultrasound use embedded computers to generate images from electromagnetic radiation and sound waves that penetrate or emanate from the human body. Across these examples, innovation in chip design, new materials, and integration methods helps enable the performance, size, and efficiency of medical devices.

Space
By definition, space technology is any technology developed for the purpose of conducting or supporting activities beyond the Kármán line (i.e., one hundred kilometers or sixty-two miles above the Earth’s surface). Space technologies are increasingly critical to everyday life (e.g., GPS navigation, banking, missile defense, internet access, remote sensing). Space is a finite planetary resource. Dramatic increases in satellites, debris, and competition are threatening access to this global commons. Private-sector actors play a critical and growing role in many aspects of space-based activities (e.g., launch, vehicles, and communications), because they offer better, cheaper, and rapidly deployable capabilities.]]> <![CDATA[OpenEvidence AI]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-20098.html Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:16:56 +0000 Secular Sanity]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-20098.html
https://www.openevidence.com/]]>
https://www.openevidence.com/]]> <![CDATA[Philosophers from ancient to pre-modern times]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19959.html Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:12:49 +0000 Magical Realist]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19959.html
https://avestura.dev/blog/tldr-goat-philosophers]]>
https://avestura.dev/blog/tldr-goat-philosophers]]> <![CDATA["Philosophy Talk" archive]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19701.html Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:53:27 +0000 C C]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-19701.html
https://philosophytalk.org/audio-archive/]]>
https://philosophytalk.org/audio-archive/]]> <![CDATA[The Internet Archive]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-18964.html Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:55:39 +0000 Magical Realist]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-18964.html https://archive.org/

Millions of free texts, movies, articles, audio files, video files, images, and websites. If you want to read a book, check here first before buying it. They have 49 million of them! Just sign up for free on their home page.]]> https://archive.org/

Millions of free texts, movies, articles, audio files, video files, images, and websites. If you want to read a book, check here first before buying it. They have 49 million of them! Just sign up for free on their home page.]]> <![CDATA["Open Culture" website]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-18648.html Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:18:05 +0000 Magical Realist]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-18648.html
https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/2178...e_vignette]]>
https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/2178...e_vignette]]> <![CDATA["Thinking Allowed" with Jeffery Mishlove]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-18117.html Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:08:49 +0000 Magical Realist]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-18117.html
https://thinkingallowed.com/a-z.html]]>
https://thinkingallowed.com/a-z.html]]> <![CDATA[Largest online global uap sighting/video database]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-17929.html Mon, 05 May 2025 03:33:26 +0000 Magical Realist]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-17929.html
"Since launch, 34051 sightings have been submitted directly to Enigma in 212 territories around the world. Combined with 270K+ sighting reports from publicly available sources, Enigma is the largest queryable historical sighting database for global UFO sightings.

Don’t see a territory listed? Enigma is actively looking for more data—be the first to share your sighting story with us to expand our network!"

https://enigmalabs.io/explore]]>
"Since launch, 34051 sightings have been submitted directly to Enigma in 212 territories around the world. Combined with 270K+ sighting reports from publicly available sources, Enigma is the largest queryable historical sighting database for global UFO sightings.

Don’t see a territory listed? Enigma is actively looking for more data—be the first to share your sighting story with us to expand our network!"

https://enigmalabs.io/explore]]> <![CDATA[Al Jazeera's video/photo database for Israeli war crimes]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-17851.html Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:36:44 +0000 C C]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-17851.html Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit compiles evidence of potential Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/...o-evidence

INTRO: Despite a ceasefire agreed upon in January, Israeli forces have resumed bombing Gaza. On March 19, a day after the bombing resumed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared the latest air strikes, which have killed hundreds of people, were "only the beginning."

Eighteen months into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, more than 51,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been confirmed killed. At least 10,000 more are missing, buried under the rubble and presumed dead.

The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves. Here we present the database that lies behind that film, described by international law expert Rodney Dixon as “a treasure trove you very seldom come across, … something which I think prosecutors will be licking their lips at..." (MORE - details)

Democracy Now (6 months ago) ... https://youtu.be/ucfxj-faTWI

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ucfxj-faTWI]]> Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit compiles evidence of potential Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/...o-evidence

INTRO: Despite a ceasefire agreed upon in January, Israeli forces have resumed bombing Gaza. On March 19, a day after the bombing resumed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared the latest air strikes, which have killed hundreds of people, were "only the beginning."

Eighteen months into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, more than 51,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been confirmed killed. At least 10,000 more are missing, buried under the rubble and presumed dead.

The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves. Here we present the database that lies behind that film, described by international law expert Rodney Dixon as “a treasure trove you very seldom come across, … something which I think prosecutors will be licking their lips at..." (MORE - details)

Democracy Now (6 months ago) ... https://youtu.be/ucfxj-faTWI

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ucfxj-faTWI]]> <![CDATA[What scientific concept should be more widely known?]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-17716.html Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:37:35 +0000 Magical Realist]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-17716.html
https://www.edge.org/contributors/what-s...dely-known]]>
https://www.edge.org/contributors/what-s...dely-known]]> <![CDATA[The Internet Sacred Text Archive]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-17402.html Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:23:47 +0000 Magical Realist]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-17402.html
https://sacred-texts.com/]]>
https://sacred-texts.com/]]> <![CDATA[Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-17386.html Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:29:41 +0000 C C]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-17386.html https://oecs.mit.edu/

INTRO: The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a new, multidisciplinary guide to understanding the mind: a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics to a broad audience of students and scholars.]]> https://oecs.mit.edu/

INTRO: The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a new, multidisciplinary guide to understanding the mind: a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics to a broad audience of students and scholars.]]> <![CDATA[135 Free Philosophy Ebooks..]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-16434.html Sun, 01 Sep 2024 21:17:40 +0000 Magical Realist]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-16434.html
https://www.openculture.com/free-philosophy-ebooks]]>
https://www.openculture.com/free-philosophy-ebooks]]> <![CDATA[Directory of Open Access Books]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-14881.html Sun, 29 Oct 2023 22:43:38 +0000 Yazata]]> https://www.scivillage.com/thread-14881.html
Equally good, tens of thousands of mostly academic titles in every conceivable subject. All available for free download.

https://directory.doabooks.org/browse?ty...tribute=en]]>
Equally good, tens of thousands of mostly academic titles in every conceivable subject. All available for free download.

https://directory.doabooks.org/browse?ty...tribute=en]]>