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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

1. SEP (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
2. IEP (Internet Encylopedia of Philosophy)
3. Philosophical Weblogs (collected by David Chalmers)
4. Philosophical Pathways
5. School of Life (founded by Alain de Botton and Sophie Howarth)
6. Wiphi
7. Partially Examined Life (podcast)
8. Wisecrack (Youtube Channel)
9. Cuck Philosophy (Youtube Channel)

Reforming Economics

• General

1. Rethinking Economics
2. INET (Institute for New Economic Thinking)
3. Evonomics
4. New Economics
5. TNS (The Next System)

• Worker Cooperatives and Workplace Democracy

1. DaW (Democracy at Work)
2. Firms as Political Entities
3. UK cooperatives
4. Cooperacy
5. ICA (International Cooperative Alliance)
6. 1W1V (1 worker 1 vote)
7. Platform Coop
8. Upstream (podcast)
9. STIR

• Commons

1. LabGov
2. Commons Transition
3. Collective Action
4. IASC
5. Commons Network
6. De Meent (D)

• Social Economy

1. SE (Social Enterprise NL) (D)
2. SOcreatie (D)
3. Tony Chocolonely (D)
4. Oma's Soep (D)

Mathematics

1. Mathoverflow (Q&A website for mathematics on research level)
2. Math Stackexchange (Q&A website for people studying math at any level)
3. What's New (Terence Tao)
4. Climbing Mount Bourbaki (Akhil Mathew)
5. Annoying Precision (Qiaochu Yuan)
6. Timothy Gowers
7. Matilde Marcolli
8. The Mathematical Atlas (under construction as of 08-09-2016)
9. The Everything Seminar
10. The Secret Blogging Seminar
11. Wiskundemeisjes (no new entries after 2010) (D)
12. Wolfram Mathworld
13. Wolfram Alpha
14. The Polymath Project (online collaborative mathematics research)
15. 3Blue1Brown

General Knowledge

• Miscellaneous

1. Wikipedia
2. Quora (Q&A website with social media elements)
3. Lesswrong
4. Mental Floss
5. Damn Interesting
6. Open Culture
7. Brain Pickings
8. Stuff You Should Know
9. Highbrow
10. Now I Know
11. Aeon (highly recommended)
12. Farnam Street
13. Today I Found Out
14. Nautilus
15. Academy of Ideas
16. PDR (public domain review)
17. Areo

• Essays

1. TETW (The Electric Typewriter)
2. Pandemic
3. Gwern (essays on a wide variety of topics; highly recommended)
4. De Reactor (critical essays on books) (D)
5. De Fusie (D)
6. Hard Hoofd (D)
7. Granta
8. 3 AM Magazine

Data

1. Our World in Data
2. Data World
3. Information is Beautiful (data visualisation awards)
4. Price Economics (data journalism)
5. Hack a Story
6. Flowing Data

MOOCs

1. Coursera
2. Udacity
3. EdX
4. Datacamp
5. Udemy
6. Khan Academy

Blogs

1. New Books in Brief (by Aaron)
2. Contagiously Certifiable (by Geoff)
3. James Altucher (mostly life advice)
4. David Bordwell (observations on film art)
5. Ward Shelley (blends of art, history and other types of knowledge)
6. Probabilistic Thinking (mostly by Richard Jeffrey)
7. Welvaart voor Iedereen (Mia Molenaar) (D)
8. Gary Wu
9. Passion and Uncertainty (Spencer R. Scott on science, philosophy and more)
10. The View from Hell (blog on anti-natalism by Sarah Perry)
11. Ribbon Farm (Venkatesh Rao and others)
12. Ideonomy (Patrick Gunkel)
13. Nieuw Wij (blog on sociology, philosophy and more) (D)
14. Stuk Rood Vlees (politics) (D)
15. Fight Entropy
16. Futility Closet
17. ncase (Nicky Case)
18. Melting Asphalt
19. Slate Star Codex
20. Colin Marshall

Effective Altruism

1. Driven Data
2. Global Priorities Project
3. Centre for Effective Altruism
4. FHI
5. Effective Altruism
6. Givewell (charity research)
7. EAN (Effectief Altruisme Nederland) (D)
8. Giving What We Can

Activism

1. Move On
2. Data Activism
3. Transformative Cities
4. MPower Change (muslim rights)
5. Color of Change (against racism)
6. CREDO (progressive change)
7. 350 (Climate)
8. P2P Foundation (the commons)
9. Artistic Activism
10. Vrede (D)
11. Greenpeace (climate, nature and sustainability)
12. Klimaat Actie (D)
13. Fossiel Vrij (D)
14. Guerilla Foundation

Books

1. List Muse
2. Noam Chomsky (books he either read, wishes to read, both or something else; I'm not certain)
3. Noam Chomsky (books he referenced)
4. Gary Wu
5. Blinkist (summaries of books)
6. Famous People's Favourites
7. Neil deGrasse Tyson's Favourites
8. Sebastian Hammer (monthly reading recommendations)
9. Farnam Street Suggestions
10. Barack Obama's Recommendations
11. Manual for Civilization
12. Top 100 Non-Fiction (the Guardian)
13. 25 Great Books (Powells)
14. Freedom 25
15. Jordan Peterson's recommendations
16. Five Books
17. Book Forum
18. The Millions

Web Comics and Satire

1. Explosm
2. XKCD
3. Abstruse Goose
4. SMBC
5. Existential Comics
6. The Oatmeal
7. The Onion (satirical news stories)
8. De Speld (the Dutch version of The Onion) (D)
9. De Gladiool (D)
10. De Kritische Kakker (hilarious blog on a well-to-do suburb in the Netherlands) (D)
11. Loesje (D)
12. Alec With Pen

Language and Linguistics

1. BLR (Bureau of Linguistical Reality)
2. Cultureel Woordenboek (D)
3. Metaphor Lab
4. VisMet
5. Metaphors Virginia

Miscellaneous Interesting Links

1. Musicovery
2. Genetic Ancestry
3. Old Pictures of Amsterdam (D)
4. Diffen (compare things yourself)
5. 50 Good Questions
6. Art of Manliness
7. Reddit
8. Colossal (art, design and more)
9. Watch Mojo (top 10 lists; mostly related to movies)
10. 7Speedreading
11. Future Timeline
12. Pastbook
13. Zaps
14. Peerby (rent stuff from others for little money)
15. Lifehack
16. Battle of Concepts (student competitions involving ideas for companies, foundations and government sections) (D)
17. Useless Web
18. 50 Great Websites (from Mashable)
19. Less Wrong
20. Edge
21. Intelligence² (debates)
22. Snopes
23. Read Next (which book should you read next?)
24. Raindrop (bookmark manager)
25. Bits of Freedom (privacy and the internet) (D)
26. Political Compass (includes many book suggestions in each of the four political quadrants of the authoritarian/libertarian and left/right spectra)
27. Patreon (support creative people financially)
28. Rare Historical Photos
29. Atlas Obscura
30. Improbable Research (IG Nobel)
31. Local Futures

Sustainability

• Renewable Energy Cooperatives

1. REScoop
2. Hier Opgewekt (D)
3. Energy Democracy
4. ODE Decentraal (D)
5. TUED
6. LCA
7. Right to Energy
8. Buurtmolen (D)

• Business and Banks

1. Climate KIC
2. Sungevity
3. Share NL (D)
4. Green Challenge (Postcode Lottery) (D)
5. Metabolic (D)
6. Ecofys (D)
7. Vandebron (D)
8. Physee (PowerWindow) (D)
9. Duurzaamste Bedrijf NL (D)
10. Green Insights
11. Systemiq
12. Econnetic (D)
13. New Foresight (D)
14. Triodos (bank) (D)
15. ASN (bank) (D)

• Think Tanks / Research Institutes

1. Buckminster Fuller Institute
2. Think Tank Map
3. ECN (D)
4. Climate Focus (D)
5. CE Delft (D)
6. Carbon Disclosure Project
7. Oxford Martin School
8. Amsterdam Global Change Institute (D)
9. Drawdown (reversing climate change)
10. TNO (D)
11. Tyndall Centre
12. GFI (Good Food Institute)
13. ISE (Institute for Social Ecology)
14. MCC (Mercator -- institute for commons and climate change)
15. Tertium (D)

• Compensating Carbon Emissions

1. Carbon Alt Delete
2. Atmosfair
3. Hivos
4. Greenseat (D)
5. Climate Neutral Group
6. Trees for All
7. CO2ZERO (D)
8. Eindewereldreizen (D)

• News

1. The Energy Collective
2. OneWorld (D)
3. Climate Change News
4. Het Kan Wel (D)
5. Down to Earth (D)
6. Alternative Energy News
7. Duurzaam Nieuws (D)

• Restaurants / Food Waste / Vegetarianism

1. Kromkommer (D)
2. Thuisafgehaald (D)
3. ResQ (find cheap, leftover food in your area with this app) (D)
4. De Ceuvel (restaurant) (D)
5. Buurtbuik (combats food waste in restaurants) (D)
6. Bijvangst (restaurant) (D)
7. Slow Food Movement
8. Viva Las Vega's (helps you to become vegetarian or vegan) (D)
9. Dutch Weed Burger (D)
10. Taste Before You Waste (D)
11. Guerilla's Kitchen Amsterdam (D)
12. VJFB (D)
13. Impossible Foods
14. De Vegetarische Slager (D)
15. [Sustainable/Vegetarian Restaurants NL] (D)

• Others

1. WWF
2. Greenpeace
3. De Urbanisten (D)
4. The Ocean Cleanup (founded and lead by Boyan Slat) (D)
5. DJ100 (100 young, Dutch innovators in sustainability, re-elected every year) (D)
6. D100 (same as the previous entry, but for slightly older people; made by Trouw) (D)
7. Changerism (D)
8. Duurzame Student (D)
9. Energy Democracy
10. Global Ecovillage Network
11. Power Peers (D)
12. Zonnepanelendelen (D)
13. Great Bubble Barrier (D)
14. Ice Stupa Project
15. IRENA
16. SureButHow (D)
17. Collaction (D)
18. Nudge (D)
19. WERN (World Ecology Research Network)

Refugees and Migrants

1. Love Europe (helping refugees)
2. The Refugee Project
3. The Migrants Files
4. Migration Trail
5. Blend In (meet refugees) (D)
6. Migration Matters (courses)
7. The Migrationist (blog)

News and Journalism

• Mainstream

1. NRC (D)
2. BBC
3. New York Times
4. Al Jazeera
5. Der Spiegel
6. Reuters
7. Authentieke Journalistiek (D)
8. Investico (D)
9. NVJ (D)
10. Groene Amsterdammer (D)
11. The Conversation
12. NOS (D)

• Others

1. TPO (The Post Online) (D)
2. The Intercept (reports on leaks by Edward Snowden and more research journalism)
3. Wikileaks
4. Democracy Now!
5. Z Magazine (news and opinion articles by Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, Howard Zinn and more)
6. De Correspondent (research journalism without advertisements) (D)
7. Panama Papers
8. FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)
9. Follow the Money (D)
10. Truthout
11. Truthdig (Chris Hedges and others)
12. The Nation (weekly journal of opinion; Christopher Hitchens used to write for this magazine)
13. New Statesman (idem)
14. Zero Hedge
15. New Republic
16. New Criterion
17. Vox
18. Pro Publica
19. Mother Jones
20. Vice Versa (D)
21. PAJ (Platform Authentieke Journalistiek) (D)
22. De Vooruitgang (D)
23. KGS NightWatch
24. The Critique
25. oD (open Democracy)
26. Opiniestukken (D)
27. MO (D)
28. Reveal News (CIR)

Democratic Innovation

1. Your Priorities
2. Decent
3. 18 Ways to Innovate Democratic Systems (Volkskrant) (D)
4. Democracy²
5. IPW (D)
6. NDRI (member list)
7. DSRP (D)
8. Citizen Lab
9. LabGov
10. Opfrissing (D)
11. OSF (Open State Foundation)

Fighting Terrorism

1. Quilliam (mostly focuses on Islamic terrorism/extremism)
2. De-radicalising neo-nazis in Germany (BBC)

Research

1. Zooniverse (help with scientific research)
2. Phys (science and technology news)
3. Science News
4. 2100web (collection of think tanks around the world)
5. AIVD Kennisbank (Dutch intelligence agency) (D)
6. Google Scholar
7. ArXiv (preprints of scientific papers)
8. CIA World Factbook
9. Think Tank Map
10. Experiment (crowdfunding platform for scientific research)
11. SOMO
12. TNI (Transnational Research Institute)
13. De Focus (D)
14. Freedom Lab (D)
15. R2R (Research to Reality)

Maps

1. Strange Maps
2. Time Maps (world history atlas)
3. Map Chart (Create maps yourself)
4. Guerilla Cartography
5. Transit Maps
6. Jakub Marian

Culture Amsterdam

The following are all Dutch (D).

1. SSBA Salon
2. De Idee
3. Spui25
4. CREA (cultural center for students)
5. We Are Public
6. Brainwash (festival for philosophy, politics, art and more)
7. De Balie
8. De Rode Hoed
9. Felix Meritis
10. IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
11. Filosofie Nacht
12. De Brakke Grond (Flemish art and culture)
13. EYE (film museum)
14. OBA (the public library)
15. Rialto (cinema)
16. Kriterion (idem)
17. Nachtbrakers (a blog on art and culture in Amsterdam)
18. Debat Agenda (debates and lectures in the Netherlands)
19. Museumnacht
20. De Nieuwe Liefde
21. Room for Discussion (interview platform UvA)
22. Happy Chaos
23. Lab 111

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