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Here are some websites I've collected. I've tried to group them in convenient categories. Entries marked with (
D
) are websites that are either written in Dutch or have Dutch origins. All external links will open in a new tab in your browser.
Philosophy
SEP
(Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
IEP
(Internet Encylopedia of Philosophy)
Philosophical Weblogs
(collected by David Chalmers)
Philosophical Pathways
School of Life
(founded by Alain de Botton and Sophie Howarth)
Wiphi
Partially Examined Life
(podcast)
Wisecrack
(Youtube Channel)
Cuck Philosophy
(Youtube Channel)
Plastic Pills
(Youtube Channel)
Philosophy Tube
(Youtube Channel)
Crooked Timber
(blog)
Philosophical Salon
(LARB)
Reforming Economics
General
Rethinking Economics
INET
(Institute for New Economic Thinking)
Evonomics
New Economics
TNS
(The Next System)
The Mint
(magazine)
Neue Narrative
Naked Capitalism
Great Transition
Land van Ons
(
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)
Nonprofit Ventures
(
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)
We Own It
Musing Mind
Marginal Revolution
Steward Ownership
Purpose Economy
We Are Stewards
(
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)
Alternative Ownership Advisors
Worker Cooperatives and Workplace Democracy
DaW
(Democracy at Work)
Firms as Political Entities
UK cooperatives
Cooperacy
ICA
(International Cooperative Alliance)
1W1V
(1 worker 1 vote)
Platform Coop
Upstream
(podcast)
STIR
Vrije Markt
(Dylan Paauwe)
Fifty by Fifty
Workers' Control
OEOC
Coƶperatie Expert
(
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)
Democratizing Work
Commons
LabGov
Commons Transition
Collective Action
IASC
Commons Network
De Meent
(
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)
Heel De Aarde
(
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)
Social Economy
SE
(Social Enterprise NL) (
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)
SOcreatie
(
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)
Tony Chocolonely
(
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)
Oma's Soep
(
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)
Mathematics
Mathoverflow
(Q&A website for mathematics on research level)
Math Stackexchange
(Q&A website for people studying math at any level)
What's New
(Terence Tao)
Climbing Mount Bourbaki
(Akhil Mathew)
Annoying Precision
(Qiaochu Yuan)
Timothy Gowers
Matilde Marcolli
The Mathematical Atlas
(under construction as of 08-09-2016)
The Everything Seminar
The Secret Blogging Seminar
Wiskundemeisjes
(no new entries after 2010) (
D
)
Wolfram Mathworld
Wolfram Alpha
The Polymath Project
(online collaborative mathematics research)
3Blue1Brown
Mathematical Anarchism
(Evo Busseniers)
General Knowledge
Miscellaneous
Wikipedia
Quora
(Q&A website with social media elements)
Lesswrong
Mental Floss
Damn Interesting
Open Culture
Brain Pickings
Stuff You Should Know
Highbrow
Now I Know
Aeon
(highly recommended)
Farnam Street
Today I Found Out
Nautilus
Academy of Ideas
PDR
(public domain review)
Areo
The Browser
Essays
TETW
(The Electric Typewriter)
Pandemic
Gwern
(essays on a wide variety of topics; highly recommended)
De Reactor
(critical essays on books) (
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)
De Fusie
(
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)
Hard Hoofd
(
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)
Granta
3 AM Magazine
De Nederlandse Boekengids
(
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)
Frank Brown Cloud
Data
Our World in Data
Data World
Information is Beautiful
(data visualisation awards)
Price Economics
(data journalism)
Hack a Story
Flowing Data
Pointer
(data journalism) (
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)
Datactive
Setup
(
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)
MOOCs
Coursera
Udacity
EdX
Datacamp
Udemy
Khan Academy
Blogs
New Books in Brief
(by Aaron)
Contagiously Certifiable
(by Geoff)
James Altucher
(mostly life advice)
David Bordwell
(observations on film art)
Ward Shelley
(blends of art, history and other types of knowledge)
Probabilistic Thinking
(mostly by Richard Jeffrey)
Welvaart voor Iedereen
(Mia Molenaar) (
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)
Gary Wu
Passion and Uncertainty
(Spencer R. Scott on science, philosophy and more)
The View from Hell
(blog on anti-natalism by Sarah Perry)
Ribbon Farm
(Venkatesh Rao and others)
Ideonomy
(Patrick Gunkel)
Nieuw Wij
(blog on sociology, philosophy and more) (
D
)
Stuk Rood Vlees
(politics) (
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)
Fight Entropy
Futility Closet
ncase
(Nicky Case)
Melting Asphalt
Slate Star Codex
Colin Marshall
Mark Fisher
(RIP)
K-punk
Dead Homer Society
Raw Thought
(Aaron Swartz, RIP)
Effective Altruism
Driven Data
Global Priorities Project
Centre for Effective Altruism
FHI
Effective Altruism
Givewell
(charity research)
EAN
(Effectief Altruisme Nederland) (
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)
Giving What We Can
Activism
Move On
Data Activism
Transformative Cities
MPower Change
(muslim rights)
Color of Change
(against racism)
CREDO
(progressive change)
350
(Climate)
P2P Foundation
(the commons)
Artistic Activism
Vrede
(
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)
Greenpeace
(climate, nature and sustainability)
Klimaat Actie
(
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)
Fossiel Vrij
(
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)
Guerilla Foundation
ECT Dirty Secrets
Non Copy Riot
Public Spaces
Books
List Muse
Noam Chomsky
(books he either read, wishes to read, both or something else; I'm not certain)
Noam Chomsky
(books he referenced)
Gary Wu
Blinkist
(summaries of books)
Famous People's Favourites
Neil deGrasse Tyson's Favourites
Sebastian Hammer
(monthly reading recommendations)
Farnam Street Suggestions
Barack Obama's Recommendations
Manual for Civilization
Top 100 Non-Fiction
(the Guardian)
25 Great Books
(Powells)
Freedom 25
Jordan Peterson's recommendations
Five Books
Book Forum
The Millions
Language and Linguistics
BLR
(Bureau of Linguistical Reality)
Cultureel Woordenboek
(
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)
Metaphor Lab
VisMet
Metaphors Virginia
Miscellaneous Interesting Links
Musicovery
Genetic Ancestry
Old Pictures of Amsterdam
(
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)
Diffen
(compare things yourself)
50 Good Questions
Art of Manliness
Reddit
Colossal
(art, design and more)
Watch Mojo
(top 10 lists; mostly related to movies)
7Speedreading
Future Timeline
Pastbook
Zaps
Peerby
(rent stuff from others for little money)
Lifehack
Battle of Concepts
(student competitions involving ideas for companies, foundations and government sections) (
D
)
Useless Web
50 Great Websites
(from Mashable)
Less Wrong
Edge
Intelligence
2
(debates)
Snopes
Read Next
(which book should you read next?)
Raindrop
(bookmark manager)
Bits of Freedom
(privacy and the internet) (
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)
Political Compass
(includes many book suggestions in each of the four political quadrants of the authoritarian/libertarian and left/right spectra)
Patreon
(support creative people financially)
Rare Historical Photos
Atlas Obscura
Improbable Research
(IG Nobel)
Local Futures
Working Class History
Albert Einstein Institution
Alan Macfarlane
(interviews)
System Overload State
(music)
Ideas and Action
Failed Architecture
Dark Matter Labs
Urban Theory Lab
Histories of Violence
Sustainability
Renewable Energy Cooperatives
REScoop
Hier Opgewekt
(
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)
Energy Democracy
ODE Decentraal
(
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)
TUED
LCA
Right to Energy
Energie Samen
(
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)
VECG
(
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)
Buurtmolen
(
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)
EAZ Wind
(
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)
Sameen
(
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)
EWT Direct Wind
(
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)
Business and Banks
Climate KIC
Sungevity
Share NL
(
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)
Green Challenge
(Postcode Lottery) (
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)
Metabolic
(
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)
Ecofys
(
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)
Vandebron
(
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)
Physee
(PowerWindow) (
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)
Duurzaamste Bedrijf NL
(
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)
Green Insights
Systemiq
Econnetic
(
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)
New Foresight
(
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)
Triodos
(bank) (
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)
ASN
(bank) (
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)
Think Tanks / Research Institutes
Buckminster Fuller Institute
Think Tank Map
ECN
(
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)
Climate Focus
(
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)
CE Delft
(
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)
Carbon Disclosure Project
Oxford Martin School
Amsterdam Global Change Institute
(
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)
Drawdown
(reversing climate change)
TNO
(
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)
Tyndall Centre
GFI
(Good Food Institute)
ISE
(Institute for Social Ecology)
MCC
(Mercator -- institute for commons and climate change)
Tertium
(
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)
Compensating Carbon Emissions
Carbon Alt Delete
Atmosfair
Hivos
Greenseat
(
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)
Climate Neutral Group
Trees for All
CO2ZERO
(
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)
Eindewereldreizen
(
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)
News
The Energy Collective
OneWorld
(
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)
Climate Change News
Het Kan Wel
(
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)
Down to Earth
(
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)
Alternative Energy News
Duurzaam Nieuws
(
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)
Restaurants / Food Waste / Vegetarianism
Kromkommer
(
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)
Thuisafgehaald
(
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)
ResQ
(find cheap, leftover food in your area with this app) (
D
)
De Ceuvel
(restaurant) (
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)
Buurtbuik
(combats food waste in restaurants) (
D
)
Bijvangst
(restaurant) (
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)
Slow Food Movement
Viva Las Vega's
(helps you to become vegetarian or vegan) (
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)
Dutch Weed Burger
(
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)
Taste Before You Waste
(
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)
Guerilla's Kitchen Amsterdam
(
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)
VJFB
(
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)
Impossible Foods
De Vegetarische Slager
(
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)
[Sustainable/Vegetarian Restaurants NL]
(
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)
Others
WWF
Greenpeace
De Urbanisten
(
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)
The Ocean Cleanup
(founded and lead by Boyan Slat) (
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)
DJ100
(100 young, Dutch innovators in sustainability, re-elected every year) (
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)
D100
(same as the previous entry, but for slightly older people; made by Trouw) (
D
)
Changerism
(
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)
Duurzame Student
(
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)
Energy Democracy
Global Ecovillage Network
Power Peers
(
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)
Zonnepanelendelen
(
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)
Great Bubble Barrier
(
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)
Ice Stupa Project
IRENA
SureButHow
(
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)
Collaction
(
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)
Nudge
(
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)
WERN
(World Ecology Research Network)
Follow This
(
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)
Stop Ecocide
Refugees and Migrants
Love Europe
(helping refugees)
The Refugee Project
The Migrants Files
Migration Trail
Blend In
(meet refugees) (
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)
Migration Matters
(courses)
The Migrationist
(blog)
News and Journalism
Mainstream
NRC
(
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)
BBC
New York Times
Al Jazeera
Der Spiegel
Reuters
Authentieke Journalistiek
(
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)
Investico
(
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)
NVJ
(
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)
Groene Amsterdammer
(
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)
The Conversation
NOS
(
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)
Others
TPO
(The Post Online) (
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)
The Intercept
(reports on leaks by Edward Snowden and more research journalism)
Wikileaks
Democracy Now!
Z Magazine
(news and opinion articles by Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, Howard Zinn and more)
De Correspondent
(research journalism without advertisements) (
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)
Panama Papers
FAIR
(Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)
Follow the Money
(
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)
Truthout
Truthdig
(Chris Hedges and others)
The Nation
(weekly journal of opinion; Christopher Hitchens used to write for this magazine)
New Statesman
(idem)
Zero Hedge
New Republic
New Criterion
Vox
Pro Publica
Mother Jones
Vice Versa
(
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)
PAJ
(Platform Authentieke Journalistiek) (
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)
De Vooruitgang
(
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)
KGS NightWatch
The Critique
oD
(open Democracy)
Opiniestukken
(
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)
MO
(
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)
Reveal News
(CIR)
Jacobin Mag
Money Trail
Global Info
China File
Investigative Desk
(
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)
Lighthouse Reports
(
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)
Democratic Innovation
Your Priorities
Decent
18 Ways to Innovate Democratic Systems
(Volkskrant) (
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)
Democracy
2
IPW
(
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)
NDRI
(member list)
DSRP
(
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)
Citizen Lab
LabGov
Opfrissing
(
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)
OSF
(Open State Foundation)
Fighting Terrorism
Quilliam
(mostly focuses on Islamic terrorism/extremism)
De-radicalising neo-nazis in Germany
(BBC)
Research
Zooniverse
(help with scientific research)
Phys
(science and technology news)
Science News
2100web
(collection of think tanks around the world)
AIVD Kennisbank
(Dutch intelligence agency) (
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)
Google Scholar
ArXiv
(preprints of scientific papers)
CIA World Factbook
Think Tank Map
Experiment
(crowdfunding platform for scientific research)
SOMO
TNI
(Transnational Research Institute)
De Focus
(
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)
Freedom Lab
(
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)
R2R
(Research to Reality)
Influence Map
Maps
Strange Maps
Time Maps
(world history atlas)
Map Chart
(Create maps yourself)
Guerilla Cartography
Transit Maps
Jakub Marian
Awesome Maps
Visions Carto
(French)
Kollektiv Orangotango
(German)
Web Comics and Satire
Explosm
XKCD
Abstruse Goose
SMBC
Existential Comics
The Oatmeal
The Onion
(satirical news stories)
De Speld
(the Dutch version of The Onion) (
D
)
De Gladiool
(
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)
De Kritische Kakker
(hilarious blog on a well-to-do suburb in the Netherlands) (
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)
Loesje
(
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)
Alec With Pen
Questionable Content
Subnormality
Culture Amsterdam
The following are all Dutch (
D
).
SSBA Salon
De Idee
Spui25
CREA
(cultural center for students)
We Are Public
Brainwash
(festival for philosophy, politics, art and more)
De Balie
De Rode Hoed
Felix Meritis
IDFA
(International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
Filosofie Nacht
De Brakke Grond
(Flemish art and culture)
EYE
(film museum)
OBA
(the public library)
Rialto
(cinema)
Kriterion
(idem)
Nachtbrakers
(a blog on art and culture in Amsterdam)
Debat Agenda
(debates and lectures in the Netherlands)
Museumnacht
De Nieuwe Liefde
Room for Discussion
(interview platform UvA)
Happy Chaos
Lab 111