Gene Cooperman's General Information

Think of these pages as my current set of bookmarks, except that I've made them public, in case somebody else finds them useful.

My Virtual Reference Desk

Countries of World, and United Nations and regions
Ancient History Encyclopedia
- Hyperhistory (excellent)
- Rosetta Stone translation to English (forgiving all royal debts)
- Fall of Civilizations (14 stories of falls of empires)
- Gregory Aldrete playlist: The Roman Empire, From Augustus to the Fall of Rome (by "acclaimed Prof. Gregory Aldrete of the U. of Wisconsin" in "24 captivating lectures")
- Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire - Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome | Lex Fridman Podcast #443
  - Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America
    - ArchaeoEd: A Podcast About Ancient Civilizations of the Americas
  - Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens
  - Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs
    - See Dependency and Locallity as an Explanatory Principle for Word Order (by Futrell, Levy, and Gibson; will be free to download: Fall, 2024)
    - Dependency Parsing (by Sandra Kübler, Ryan McDonald, and Joakim Nivre; 2009)
  - Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events
  - Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens
  - Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
  - Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang
  - Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics
  - Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right
  - The History of Rome (award-winning podcasts)
  - Great Military Blunders Lectures (by Gregory Aldrete)
- The History Net
- General History of Africa (UNESCO)
- Colonial germ warfare
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938
- Slave Narratives: Autobiographies (part of "Documenting The American South"; e.g., a moving autobiography of Lewis Garrard Clarke from 1845, or this with picture of Uncle Tom's Cabin)
  - Slave Law in Colonial Virginia: A Timeline
    - 1669 (and confirmed in 1682, article XXXIV): Killing one's own slave is legal:
      If any slave resists his master or another who is correcting him and if the slave should chance to die, then his death shall not be accounted a felony by the master or the other person, since it cannot be presumed that aforethought malice (which makes murder a felony) would induce any man to destroy his own estate. ("if any slave resist his master (or othe by his masters order correcting him) and by the extremity of the correction should chance to die, that his death shall not be accompted ffelony, but the master (or that other person appointed by the master to punish him) be acquit from molestation, since it cannot be presumed that prepensed malice (which alone makes murther ffelony) should induce any man to destroy his owne estate.")
  - Slaves and Free Persons of Color. An Act Concerning Slaves and Free Persons of Color (North Carolina, from Documenting the American South, UNC (exp. concerned with runaways: also, 1826: No emancipated slave allowed to remain in state, and no "free negro" allowed to migrate into the state)
    - Slaves are Prohibited to Read and Write by Law (after Nat Turner Rebellion of 1831)
  - Stono Rebellion (1739, South Carolina)
  - South Carolina Negro Act of 1740 (see page 5) (owners permitted to kill rebellious slave; slaves cannot raise food, earn money, or learn to write English)
    - The negro law of South Carolina (1848, 68 pages) (Library of Congress, or alt)
      (p. 19, Sect. 57: Act of 1835: "unlawful for free negros ... to migrate into this State")
  - Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: Slavery Unit (with link to Document 1: John G. Akin, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama - 1833, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama)
    - Alabama Legislature Bans Free Black People from Living in the State (Jan. 17, 1834; aftermath of Nat Turner rebellion)
    - Selections from Alabama's Laws Governing Slaves (from CUNY university, NY; but the original Alabama documents on the web have been moved)
    - Alabama Slave Code of 1833 (S31) ("Any person who shall attempt to teach any free person of color, or slave, to spell, read or write, shall upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum of not less than two hundred fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars."; After Nat Turner Rebellion of 1931, all slave states except Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee passed laws against teaching slaves to read and write)
  - Florida Memory: An Act Concerning Slaves, Free Negroes and Mulattoes, Approved January 19, 1828
  - Southern slavery and the law, 1619-1860
  - Slavery & the law
  - PoliceCommission121620-DanteKingPresentation.pdf
  - The Underground Railroad (by William Still (African-American Philadelphia "stationmaster" of Underground Railroad), published 1872; from Project Gutenberg)
  - 10 Facts about Washington & Slavery
  - Princeton & Slavery (history of slavery at Princeton University)
    "... domestic slavery .... I am a northern man by birth and a southern man by adoption. In regard to this fearful subject I speak to you the words of truth, and I hope they may sink into your hearts. Slavery is not a spot on the sun of our union, or if one it was planted there by permission of an all just and overruling Providence, and does not obscure its dazzling brilliancy. Who does not see in the transplanting of the African to America, the means of restoring to the degraded descendants of Ham the benefits of civilization and christianity? ... Liberia .... whatever atrocities may have subsequently characterized the African slave trade, ..., it originated with La Casas, a Dominican monk, and a missionary among the Indians of San Domingo, who, struck with pity at the sufferings inflicted by the whites upon the Indians, formed the idea of transplanting to that island of Africans, whose adaptation to that tropical climate, and a greater power of endurance, rendered them capable of toil which the feeble Indians could not sustain. ... in no country upon the earth is the African as happy, as useful to himself or to the country he inhabits, as the southern slave. ... It confers unnumbered blessings upon the black man as well as the white. Look at Africa! Its miserable inhabitants ... Look at the free negroes in your own northern states and compare their condition with that of the southern slaves. The latter protected by law and an enlightened public sentiment, well fed, and not overworked (for that they cannot be) eminently contribute to their own happiness and the country's prosperity. ... They know that they, and their offspring however numerous will be abundantly provided for. ... watch closely to condemn the movements of those, who would convert the jocund laugh, and merry song of the industrious slave into the demoniac yells of infuriated savages!" — Address delivered at the time of the Princeton commencement for the class of 1850 by the Hon. David S. Kaufman, Congressman from Texas, June 25, 1850, Princeton University ( David S. Kaufman was of German Mennonite ancestry.)
- The Black Jacobins (history of Haitian slave revolt, by C.L.R. James)
- South Carolina Declaration of Secession, 1860 (South Carolina was the first state to secede from the union.)
- President Woodrow Wilson as racist (After the Civil War, federal government was desegregated; but 50 years later Wilson resegregated it, and fired 15 of the 17 black supervisors in the federal government and replaced with white supervisors.)
- The Silent South: The Freedman's Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System by George W. Cable, 1907 (first edition: 1889)
  "... while those who were under sentences of ten years And over numbered 538, although ten years, as the rolls show, Is the utmost length of time that a convict can be expected to Remain alive in a Georgia penitentiary. ... In Georgia outside her prisons there are eight whites to every Seven blacks. Inside, there are eight whites to every eighty Blacks."
- Orangeburg Massacre, Feb. 8, 1968 (mostly black protesters against a segregated bowling alley; 3 killed, 32 injured by South Carolina Highway Patrol at South Carolina State University; a jury spent two hours to decide that the killings were justified because the police were in fear of danger from the unarmed protesters)
- The Black (761st Tank) Battalion that rescued Tony Blinken’s stepfather (southern racist discrimination, Battle of the Bulge, liberated the concentration camp Gunskirchen, and there are some stories about Black American soldiers at the liberation of Dachau; Jackie Robinson briefly served with the 761st)
- Tha Armenian Genocide (1915-16): Overview (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: between 664,000 and 1.2 million killed; The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is a novel written by Werfel (Austrian Jew) to memorialize the genocide)
- Testimony of Survivors; The Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders
  - Testimonies from 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China fully indexed and subtitled : (USC Shoah Foundation: Naning Massacre from archive of many genocides; requires free registration))
- American Prison Writing Archive (alt)
  - "The Zo", a video about prison life (by Molly Crabapple, narrated by Michael K. Williams)
- Short history of Angola prison: A slave plantation converted into a prison
- Equal Justice Initiative
  - Legacy of Lynching | Equal Justice Initiative
    - Lynching in America -- supplement by county
    - The Memorial to Peace and Justice (memorial to victims of lynching)
    - lynching marker project
  - Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man (videos by former NFL linebacker, Emmanuel Acho)
- The Murder of Emmet Till (Approved Killing in Mississippi) (full story by Look magazine, based in part on interview with the murderers; the modern-day memorial sign for Till is repeatedly shot with bullet holes)
- Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 (The History Place) (eerie parallels with the modern march on the U.S. Capitol building: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.")
- The Rise of Adolf Hitler (The History Place)
  - Hitler's first radio address to the German people (from Chapter 5 of Facing History: The National Socialist Revolution)
  - It Started With Words
- Nazis: The Road to Power Excellent! (16 podcasts with excellent acting, showing the steps to power and the thought processes of the Nazi politicians/activists; some parts are reminiscent of some anti-democratic movements in today's world)
- Memory of the Camps (Frontline: "one of the most definitive records ... of Nazi death camps")
- I Have a Message For You (extraordinary story of one of the people on the train from France to Auschwitz)
- Japanese Wartime Atrocities (biological warfare)
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook
- American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States (audio and transcripts)
  - Martin Luther King, Jr.: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence (April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, New York City)
    - The Casualties of the War in Vietnam (and transcript or alt; Feb. 25, 1967, Los Angeles)
    - Conspiracy Trial (The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change)
- The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war
- Behind the Bastards (bad people in history)
  - Worst Year Ever (loss of Rojava/Kurdish freedom)
- Study of Robert Pape/CPOST on domestic terrorism (Study of Capitol insurrection from Apr. l6, 2021)
  - Understanding American Domestic Terrorism (slides)
  - What an analysis of 377 Americans arrested or charged in the Capitol insurrection tells us (Washington Post opinion piece)
  - Origins of Insurrectionists (youtube)
Harlem Children's Zone (inspiring "conveyor belt" education model, led by Geoffrey Canada)
Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
Maps
Other Languages
- Voynich Manuscript (medieval manuscript in an unknown language, code, or babble)
- yourDictionary.com (excellent)
- Dictionary - online translation (bab.la) (many languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, etc.)
- Free Translation (among English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese)
- Translating dictionaries
- Babylon dictionary and translator
  - Babylon on-line translator lookup
- AllWords.com (including crossword solver)
- Chinese radicals (Kangxi) with English meanings
- International characters using "compose" key (or right windows key???)
- Foreign Language Learning Online
- FSI Language Courses (Foreign Service Institute, developed by US government, in public domain; alt from yojik.eu; alt from antibozo.net)
- SERVAS international (visiting in different countries)
- Chinese
- French
- German
  - Franz Xaver von Schönwerth: Märchen aus der Oberpfalz - Kapitel 1
- Greek
- Spanish
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Nostratic family
- Online Etymology Dictionary
- World Wide Words (etymologies)
  - Book: From Latin To Romance Sound Charts, 1954
  - Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans
    - Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages (YouTube)
    - Evolution of Words from Latin to French (YouTube)
    - The history of Spanish - FULL (YouTube)
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1oZf-OxxEY (YouTube)
    - Evolution of English (YouTube)
    - Evolution of French (YouTube)
    - Evolution of German (YouTube)
    - Evolution of Spanish (YouTube, with citations)
Joule Solar Fuel (converts CO2 source into Ethanol, etc., without need for biomass)
Konarka Technologies (polymer solar cells that one can roll up and carry around)
History
Entertainment
- Books
- Art
- Music (also cf. radio)
- Movies
- Television
- Radio
- Comics
- News (also cf. International broadcast networks, French news, German news)
- Sports (good general site?)
- Local Info
- Travel (also cf. international travel)
- Business
- Health
- Reference
Other fun stuff

The Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign!

Detailed stuff

Index Mundi (Country profiles)
- The Virtual Tourist - World (web servers by geographical location)
- Country Studies (comprehensive, from Library of Congress)
- Largest Military Expenditures (Infoplease.com, 2013)
- United Nations
  - United Nations Statistical Yearbook
  - World Statistics Pocketbook
  - UNITAR-UNOSAT (UNITAR’S Operational Satellite Applications Programme)
    - Latest maps (and can select maps by country; e.g., damage assessment during wars)
  - Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rights of countries (United Nations Human Rights Council)
    - United States
- Current National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
  - Income and Poverty in the United States: 2016 (U.S. Census Department)
  - U.S. Household Incomes: A 50-Year Perspective (note, especially, table: "Real Mean Household Income Cumulative Growth By Quintile and Top 5 Percent": bottom 60% grew much slower than top 40%)
- COVID-19 statistics (New York Times, county- and state-level statistics with date, cases, deaths)
- Statistics - OECD
  - The US has a lot of money, but it does not look like a developed country (quartz.com, March, 2017)
  - Country statistical profiles: Key tables from OECD (excellent!; does include Brazil, China, India, Russia)
  - Directorate for Education and Skills
  - Population with tertiary education (by age; OECD)
  - Trends in top five causes of death for children Top 10 Chinese cities by urbant resident population
    - List of cities in China by population
  - China has over 47 mln higher-education students in 2023
  - China’s 100 Richest (Forbes)
  - U.S. continues to slip behind other countries in percentage of population with degrees (APMreports.org; Jan., 2019)
  - World Population Review
  - The Global State of Democracy Report 2021
  - Democracy Index 2021 (by The Economist magazine)
  - Index Index - Index on Censorship
  - List of countries by tertiary education attainment (Wikipedia)
  - Infant mortality rate
  - Maternal mortality rate (select "Download data" for further details)
  - Education at a Glance 2013, OECD Indicators (click on "READ"; including previous years; China, Russia, India, Brazil not included in OECD; US is #17 out of 29 for 2011 for graduation rate with Bachelor's for young people; US is #22 out of 23 for 2011 in Chart A4.1 - of students who enter tertiary education, proportion who graduate with a degree is 50%. )
  - Education at a Glance, OECD
  - Sustainable Development Report (performance of all 193 UN Member States in SDG (Sustaiable Development Goals))
  - GINI coefficient of inequality (OECD countries)
  - GINI index of inequality (United States, 1974 - 2020)
    - Tertiary graduation rate in OECD (Select "Tertiary" in drop-down menu; United States not listed)
    - Average, Median, Top 1%, and all United States Net Worth Percentiles
    - National height rankings (but blank page as of Feb., 2024) (and article referencing it)
  - Education at a Glance 2024
  - Country Notes (2014)
- Statistical Resources on the Web
  - UN Statistics
  - United Nations World Population Prospects
    - Largest cities by population (and past and future trends)
  - U.S. population growth has nearly flatlined, new census data shows (Dec., 2021) U.S. religion (decennial census) (largely based on who actively attends a house of worship) 2022 PRRI Census of American Religion (largely based on self-identified religious affiliation)
  - U. N. Statistics Division -- Millenium Indicators
  - OECD: A Family Affair: Intergenerational Social Mobility across OECD Countries
  - The Hamilton Index, 2023: China Is Running Away With Strategic Industries
  - The World Factbook (CIA)
  - Nationmaster - Country comparisons
  - Global Innovation Index 2020
  - Country Rankings (per capita GDP, oil exports, consumption, etc.)
    - World Economic League Table (WELT) (predictions of GDP for next 15 years)
    - International Comparison Program (ICP) (World Bank estimates of PPP GDP: GDP if each of the goods produced were priced as if it were sold in the United States)
    - GDP by State (In Q3, 2019, California had the 5th largest GDP, after US, China, Japan, Germany)
    - Urbanization in the United States (by state)
    - Critical Technology Tracker
    - Minimum wage per hour in China as of January 2023, by region
      - Average annual income in China in 2021, by region
      - A Guide to Minimum Wages in China in 2023 (and later)
    - U.S. Financial Health Pulse (Center for Financial Services Innovation: ongoing snapshot of how Americans manage their finances)
      - Inaugural U.S. Financial Health Pulse Report Finds Only 28 Percent of People in America are Financially Healthy
    - Freedom House -- Global Freedom Scores (click on a country for detailed report; and Methodology)
    - Freedom in the World 2021 (Freedom House)
  - CEIC data (country indicators)
  - Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) (trading bloc with China, Japan, South Korea, and 12 other countries)
  - Inequality index (based on Gini index of World Bank)
    - Pocket Piketty: A Handy Guide to Capital in the Twenty-First Century (by Jesper Poine; summary of history of inequality)
  - Economic indicators
  - Middle Class (statistics by Pew Research Center)
    - The State of the American Middle Class (From 1970 to 2023; Middle-class: two-thirds to double the median household income, which was $106,100 in 2022)
    - Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College (New York Times, Sept. 5, 2023:hHigh school grads going straight to college has fallen to 62% in 2023, from 70% in 2016.)
  - Global Wealth Report (Crédit Suisse)
  - Worldwide auto production statistics (2022) (and alt)
    - greencarcongress.com
    - Global Auto report (auto sales by ScotiaBank)
    - Electric Car Use by Country
    - World Top Automobile Companies List
    - Federal Vehicle Standards | Center for Climate and Energy Solutions:
    - Jose Pontes: electric vehicle news
    - Zachary Shahan electric vehicle news
    - Maximilian Holland electric vehicle news
    - CnEvPost - China EV News
    - TechNode - Latest China Tech Trends
    - Caixin articles (often on hi-tech) (known for "investigative journalism"?)
    - Caijing.com (use Google translate for English view)
    - Multisectoral drivers of decarbonizing battery electric vehicles in China
      - IEA (Integrating Solar and Wind: 2024) (page 67: Generation profile in California (CAISO) for selected technologies, 30 April 2024)
      - Autonomous Buses Fueled by Wireless Charging (in Zhengzhou, China, Feb., 2023)
      - China is propelling its electric truck market by embracing battery swapping (Aug., 2023)
      - Europe, China, & India Can Electrify All Rail, Why Can’t The US? (Feb., 2023; with share of emissions for transportation modes)
      - 1,000-Kilometer Route Yangtze Container Ship With Swappable Batteries (July, 2023)
      - China approves world’s first passenger-carrying flying taxi (Oct., 2023, electric autonomous flying taxi, 60 mph, 2 passengers, 20 minutes flying time)
    - Electric Viking (youtube blogs on electric cars)
    - Automobile propre
    - Green Car Reports
    - Jiemian "power plant" (EV) news (translate to English)
    - Jiemian renewable technology news (translate to English)
    - Jiemian ESG (environment) news (translate to English)
    - Huodian BJX (thermal power) (translate to English)
    - Car News China
    - EVMagz -- Electric Vehicle News
    - Electric Vehicles Archives (Clean@Technica)
      - China NEV retail rises to 856,000 in Jun, penetration hits another record at 48.4% (June, 2024) (or Half of Car Sales in China Are Now Plugins!, from CleanTechnica for June, 2024)
      - 38% Plugin Vehicle Market Share In China! (June, 2023)
      - EVs Take 19.8% Share In Germany — Triple Trouble Hits EV Transition (June, 2024)
      - EVs At 24.6% Share In Germany — Tesla Model Y 3rd Overall (June, 2023)
      - EVs At 24.1% Share In France — Down YoY As Trade Barriers Kick In (June, 2024)
      - France New EV Record High — Tesla Model Y Bestseller (26.9%, June, 2023)
      - EVs Take 28.2% Share In The UK — Tesla Still Leads (June, 2024)
      - EVs Take 25.1% Of The UK — Tesla Model Y Overall Bestseller (June, 2023)
    - NIO to slash workforce by 30% (by 2027) as it bets on robots and AI (or alt, with fully automated robotic assembly)
      - and a cool speeded-up video of NIO's Smart Manufacturing
      - Nio bets big on battery swap stations amid growing EV price war (Technode, March, 2023)
    - Inside EVs - Electric Vehicle News, Reviews, and Reports
    - The EV Transition (IEEE Spectrum, 2023?)
    - The stones in the road for China’s 2025 plan on electric vehicles (From 2018: "China wants EVs to account for 40 per cent of the country’s auto sales by 2025"; Also, excellent overview of electric vehicles worldwide)
    - Gasoline demand growth to slow this year on EV growth in China, U.S. (May, 2024)
    - Global EV Outlook 2024 (IEA)
  - ETP Clean Energy Technology Guide (IEA)
  - Global Energy Statistical Yearbook (excellent)
  - U.S. Energy Information Administration of DOE
    - End of Cheap Oil (from Scientific American, 1998)
    - Mining the Athabasca oil sands (tar sands) (Excellent! Pictures that tell a fascinating technology story.)
      - The other extraction method for tar sands is SAGD, which is becoming the dominant method now that there is little remaining tar sands oil near the surface.
    - The End of the Oil Age (another good overview, 2003)
    - Another Simmons article
    - Twilight in the Desert, by Matthew Simmons, about status of Saudi oil fields
    - and one on natural gas (Dale Allen Pfeiffer)
    - Future World Oil Supply (presented at Salzburg 2002 Summer School) (excellent overview)
    - Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage (book with online chapter by Princeton U. Press, former geology professor)
    - ASPO Newsletters (available from Peakoil.net)
    - AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists)
    - Speeches and papers of Matthew Simmons
    - Regularly Appearing Statistics
      - International Energy Agency (IEA) Analysis: Reports (see especially Projected Costs of Generating Electricity 2020 (report appears every five years); World Energy Outlook, annual series, and other free publications -- free after 2 to 3 years)
      - Oil Market Report (from IEA)
      - EIA International Energy Outlook (from Energy Information Administration of U.S. government, with statistics and individual country reports); EIA Annual Energy Outlook (see especially "Sources & Uses" and Petroleum); Annual Energy Outlook (projections to 2025; with forecasts and Projections
      - Country Analysis Briefs (EIA/DOE)
      - Monthly Oil and Natural Gas Production (EIA)
    - Estimates of recoverable oil
      - Predicted production and estimates of recoverable oil by country (based on Hubbert Peak methodology)
      - Resources for (Estimated Ultimately Recoverable) Oil and Natural Gas, based on USGS 2000 assessment using 1996 data (with details for each country)
      - Current crude oil production by country (note crude oil does not include natural gas liquids, etc.)
        
        Country-by-country energy statistics (Based on current DOE reports)
        International Petroleum Production (Monthly and Quarterly Data)
        International Petroleum Monthly (EIA/DOE)
    - Beyond Peak Oil
    - Deepwater Gulf of Mexico 2009 (pdf, from MMS/DOE) (or alt)
    - New projects to reverse Gulf of Mexico natural gas declines (Nov., 2018, EIA Today in Energy)
    - Wolfcamp play for oil and natural gas in Permian basin (Nov., 2018, EIA Today in Energy)
    - Oil in Iraq
      - articles on energy security (oil supplies) by Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
        
        Iraq Pipeline Watch (continuing chronology of attacks on Iraqi pipelines from 2008)
    - Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets (2023, By 2029, the carbon budget will be exhausted, and we are on course for warming above 1.5°C.)
    - Cap and Trade Archives (Center for Climate and Energy Solutions)
      - RGGI, Inc. The Reginoal Greenhouse Gas Initiative: an initiative of Eastern States of the US
      - EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)
      - California Air Resources Board
        
        Program Linkage - California Air Resources Board (California and Quebec)
      - Chinese national carbon trading scheme (China ETS) (Wikipedia)
        
        The first year of China’s national carbon market, reviewed
        China Climate News & Analysis (chinadialogue.net)
        China’s move to increase coal supplies won’t affect decarbonisation (chinadialogue.net, 2022)
    - World Energy Resources (USGS)
      - Geology, Oil and Gas Fields of the World
    - a BP energy Outlook; 2024 edition (predicts peak oil in 2025)
  - Natural Gas Annual (EIA, USA)
    - The greenhouse gas footprint of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exported from the United StatesThe greenhouse gas footprint of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exported from the United States (Eneregy Science & Engineering, Oct., 2024)
    - A Smoking Gun for Biden’s Big Climate Decision? A new analysis suggests that L.N.G. exports may well be worse for the environment than burning [local] coal [due to methane leaks from shale gas production and LNG transport]. (Oct. 31, 2023; based on preprint of article by Robert Howarth)
    - A commentary on “The greenhouse-gas footprint of natural gas in shale formations” by R.W. Howarth, R. Santoro, and Anthony Ingraffea (Jan., 2012: counter-argument for natural gas, but not LNG (but the journal also publishes climate skeptics): Howarth is flawed due to comparing coal and shale gas by heat value, instead of electricity production; assumed methane leakage rate (but higher for LNG); and 20-year time frame versus 100-year); or this Breakthrough Institute blog by a Senior Fellow
    - Asserting the climate benefits of the coal-to-gas shift across temporal and spatial scales (Nature Climate Change, 2019; analyzes natural gas, but not LNG)
  - Annual Coal Report (EIA, USA)
    - Global Coal Plant Tracker
    - Coal Cost Crossover 2.0
      - Coal Cost Crossover 3.0 (but full report download asks for your e-mail)
    - China May Soon Hit Peak Coal (in 2025 and beyond)
    - Everything You Think You Know About Coal in China Is Wrong (comparing top 100 coal plants in China and U.S.; May, 2017)
    - Coal Production in the United States - An (sic) Historical Overview
    - International Coal (EIA)
  - World Renewable Production of Electricity
    - Renewable Capacity Statistics 2021
    - Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2021
    - EurObserv'ER Barometer (renewable energy statistics)
      - EurObserv'ER Barometer (photovoltaic, 2022, for 2021)
      - EurObserv'ER Barometer (wind energy, 2022, for 2021)
    - GEO FCT Portal (Forest Carbon Tracking Portal; requires Google Earth --- doesn't run on Linux?)
  - Global Wind Energy Council
    - Wind Power News
    - World Wind Energy Association - Statistics (and here)
    - Wind Power Engineering News
    - Wind Europe (Newsroom)
    - Wind power by country (Wikipedia)
    - Wind power production for main countries (thewindpower.net)
    - IEA (International Energy Agency) Wind Home Page (with Annual Report for world)
    - American Wind Energy Association
    - 100% Renewable (country/island)
  - IEA (International Energy Agency) Photovoltaic energy (solar electric) (with annual reports, 2020)
    - PV Magazine
      - Global Solar Module Prices/OPIS: Price range for US-delivered modules widens (Aug., 2024: US/DDP: $0.29/W, EU/FOB: $0.10/W, China/FOB: $0.096/W ; TOPCon)
    - PV Tech
    - China leads global renewables race with record-breaking 230 GW installations in 2023 ("China’s end-user power prices are less than half those in Europe or Australia .... The China power market is now larger than that of Europe and the US combined")
    - The momentum of the solar energy transition ("a global irreversible solar tipping point may have passed where solar energy gradually comes to dominate global electricity markets, without any further climate policies")
    - A Race to the Top: China 2023 (China to meet its green energy targets 5 years early)
    - Energy Storage News
      - pumped hydro - Energe Storage News
    - Also, see: Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)
    - Solar Power World News (mostly American news)
    - Solar Energy News (solarmagazine.com)
    - Solar Energy News
    - Solar Daily (along with Wind Daily, Nuclear Power, and others)
    - Solar power by country (Wikipedia)
    - Operable utiity-scale generating units as of December 2022
    - China aims to start work on 270GW of pumped storage facilities by 2025
      - 1.2GW pumped hydro plant in China reaches commercial operation (Feb., 2023)
    - 'World's largest' compressed air energy storage project connects to the grid in China (April 10, 2024)
    - Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) in China (from SolarPACES at IEA)
      - China’s 2050 power could be Zero Carbon for under 1% of GDP: study
      - Cosin Solar now supplies 1 GW of China’s tower CSP
      - World’s Largest Energy Firm to Build Three Chinese CSP Projects
      - China’s Big State-Owned Firms Begin New CSP for 2024
    - CSP News & Analysis (or alt)
      - US releases rule ensuring only green hydrogen gets $3/kg tax credit (Dec., 2023)
    - (Also, see SunShot 2030 (DOE).)
    - US Electricity Generation (share of renewables, coal, natural gas, nuclear)
    - Majority of New Renewables Undercut Cheapest Fossil Fuel on Cost (and full report)
    - Energy EfficiencyNewsWind PowerOnshoreSolarUtility Scale Report: New solar is cheaper to build than to run existing coal plants in China, India and most of Europe
    - Electricity Data Explorer | Open Source Global Electricity Data (excellent! Easy to compare fuel source of country/region, and to compare two regions for use of fuel source)
      - 2023 Review of Global Electricity (executive summary) (2023 to be the first year with net fall in electricity generation using fossil fuels)
    - EIA Electric Power Monthly (browser of electrical production by energy source)
      - Utility Scale Facility Net Generation from Renewable Sources Excluding Hydroelectric
      - Utility Scale Facility Net Generation from Coal
      - Utility Scale Facility Net Generation from Nuclear Energy
      - Utility Scale Facility Net Generation from Natural Gas
      - EIA Electric Power Monthly (see, especially, "Maps" (e.g., Figure 6.1.D. Utility-Scale Planned Retirements) and "Chapter 6. Capacity")
        
        (also posted monthly at "Peak Oil Barrel" but not recently updated)
      - Table 5.6.A. Average Price by State
      - Today in Energy (EIA)
      - State Profiles and Energy Estimates (EIA; select a state, and choose "State Energy Profile" from right menu)
      - Rosatom (Wikipedia)
        
        VVER
        BN-1200 reactor (fast breeder reactor)
        FSUE Atomflot (nuclear-powered icebreakers)
        Floating nuclear power plants
        Small reactors and floating nuclear plants
      - oJust How Radioactive Are Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons? (tactical nuclear weapons; nuclear power is considered "dual use": trained nuclear technicians and enriched uranium for dual use)
      - EDF (Électricité de France)
    - Documenting a Decade of Cost Declines for PV Systems (Feb., 2021)
      - EERE: SunShot (program of DOE to reduce solar power costs by 75% over decade 2011 - 2020: achieving price parity with fossil-based energy: installed cost of about $1/watt or 6 cents per kwh)
        
        SunShot 2030 (DOE) (goal of solar energy for $0.03 per kilowatt-hour for utility scale by 2030, $0.05 for residential -- as compared to $0.06/utility and $0.16/residential in 2017)
        Potential Role of Concentrating Solar Power within the Context of DOE's 2030 Solar Cost Targets
        DOE — sort of — kills 'SunShot Initiative' (2018) (The Department of Energy has stopped calling its solar arm the "SunShot Initiative" and is weighing an overhaul to a key solar competition, prompting new worries about the Trump administration's intentions on renewable power.)
      - Tracking the Sun (prices and trends for distributed photovoltaic Systems in the United States)
      DOE: Lithium ion battery goal is $60 per kwh
    - SMSL (Silicon Module Super Leage): Hanqha Q CELLS, Yingli Green, JA Solar, Canadian Solar, Jinko Solar, Trina Solar
    - Analysis of why energy transition is not limited by mining rare minerals
  - U.K. National Grid Status
    - French National Grid Status
  - Nuclear Energy
    - The World Nuclear Industry: Status Report 2021 (with detailed section on "The Vogtle Debacle": "Simply stated, it is to develop an unachievable plan, fail relatively quickly, and repeat the process to develop a new (and still unachievable) plan.")
    - The World Nuclear Industry: Status Report 2023
    - WNA Nuclear Database - under construction
      - Takeaways from the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2021
      - Global Coal Plant Tracker
    - Physicist MV Ramana on the problem with nuclear power (book review)
    - NuScale Small Modular Reactor (SMR) (approved, but canceled after $200M invested)
      - Is advanced nuclear in trouble? What’s next after NuScale cancellation. (Nov., 2023)
      - Nuclear waste from small modular reactors (PNAS article)
      - Linglong-1 reactor (SMR) attracts global attention
    - Nuclear power plant retirements in U.S. (Sept., 2018, EIA Today in Energy)
    - Nuclear power plant distribution in US (April, 2017, EIA Today in Energy)
    - world’s largest nuclear plants differ by age (Feb., 2017, Nuclear power plant distribution in US)
  - Peak Oil Barrel
  - Carbon Brief ("Clear on Climate")
  - OPEC paper barrels (from Crude Oil Peak)
  - Green Car Congress (oil analysis, and clean, fuel-efficient vehicles)
  - The Fraud of Plastic Recycling (The Center for Climate Integrity, Feb., 2024)
  - NOAA Climate Services (climate.gov)
    - Fifth National Climate Assessment
    - Today's Climate Archive (Inside Climate News)
    - World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency (article from BioScience journal, Nov., 2019; 11,000 climate scientists signed on)
    - Amazon tipping point: Last chance for action (ScienceMag, 20 2019)
    - Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018 (Nature, 10 December, 2019)
    - Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region (Nature Climate Change, 21 Oct., 2019: Arctic is now a net emitter of CO₂)
    - State of the Climate (Global Analysis) (Note: can select specific month, annual, other climate reports)
    - Global Warming (excellent overview)
    - CSALT model (accurately models average global temperature as a function of CO2 concentration and a small number of of other parameters)
    - Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s
      - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063
    - Cyclic fluctuations in the level of the Caspian Sea (shrinking for 100 years, and then rising since 1980)
      - Scientists Think They Know Why the Caspian Sea Is Shrinking (... and then sea level falling by 5 feet from 1996--2015; article written in 2017)
      - Long‐term Caspian Sea level change (Geophysical Research Letters)
    - Aral Sea (Wikipedia, shrinking by 90% of fourth largest lake in world)
    - Marclimate Graphs (excellent overview in graphs of historical statistics related to climate change)
    - Effects of climate change on North America in future
    - Telegraph temperature adjustment claims (excellent description of how raw global temperature data is adjusted; in reaction to Telegraph newspaper claims that the raw data was adjusted in order to show greater warming)
    - Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (physicists who went back to analyze surface temperatures independently of the climatologist study, and with funding by Novim Group, independent of the traditional climatology funding sources, headed by Richard Muller (formerly skeptical of global warming (MIT Technology Review))
      --- using raw historical data (non-homogenized, unedited), for five times as many weather stations as the Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly data set (GHCN-M) used by many climate studies. The newly developed mathematical algorithms work on the larger data sets because they have less need for uniform record length, nearly complete reference interfals, etc. They conclude a rise in temperature of 0.7 degrees Celsius since the mid-1950s, similar to that of GDCN-M.)
      - NACW 2013 Keynote Address of Richard Muller: How to Convert a Climate Skeptic
      - Congressional testimony of Richard Muller, 3/31/11
      - Papers (submitted) arising from study
      - Video of surface air temperatures from 1800 to present
      - How we know global warming is real (Attempts to recover temperature reocrds from even before 1850, and incorporate them in the Earth's temperatur record)
    - Understanding the Global Warming Forecast: Our Past and Future Climate (by Peter Demenocal, Columbia U., Nov. 1, 2005 -- one of the clearest talks on this subject ever)
    - Changing Planet (popular 5 minute videso from NBC on science of climate change)
    - "Can We Defuse The Global Warming Time Bomb?" (article by James Hansen, Scientific American, Feb., 2004)
    - The Montreal Protocol is delaying the occurrence of the first ice-free Arctic summer (PNAS, 2023)
    - BAMS Annual State of the Climate
    - NASA animations by keyword
      - Sea Ice (animations from NASA)
      - Weekly Arctic Sea Ice Age without Graph: 1984 - 2019
        
        Arctic Sea Ice Age (climate.gov; latest map)
      - Annual Arctic sea ice minimum 1979-2018 with area graph
      - Annual Gradient Melt over Greenland 1978 through 2009
      - C13C-1320 - On the Possibility of a Long Subglacial River Under the North Greenland Ice Sheet (Dec., 2019; 1,000 mile-long subglacial river ending in the Petermann glacier)
      - Jakobshavn Glacier Calving Front Recession from 1850 to 2006
      - Jakobshavn Glacier Calving Front Recession from 1850 to 2009 (or alt) (ice stream contributes 0.002 inches/0.06 mm per year of sea level rise)
      - Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG project)
        
        In Greenland, Another Major Glacier Comes Undone (JPL: Zachariae Isstrom glacier broke loose from stable position in 2012, and with potential to add 1.5 feet to ocean levels; part of one of three major glacier sectors in Greenland)
      - Larsen Ice Shelf collapse (NASA animation (or alt), with more information and still more information with a good map/diagram; Larsen A ice shelf collapsed in 1995, Larsen B (size of Rhode Island) in 2002; concerns about Larsen C (larger than Connecticut) for future)
      - Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volumes 1979-2020 (visualization, youtube)
      - Older Arctic Sea Ice Disappearing
      - Arctic Report Card (NOAA, annual report)
    - seaice.de
      - Overview of Arctic story:
        
        Trends in Carbon Dioxide (Mauna Loa CO₂, 1959 - present)
        Climate TRACE (using satellites to assign CO2 emissions by country or by site)
        A Graphical History of Atmospheric CO2 Levels Over Time (from 280ppm (pre-industrial times, attested by ice cores) to 417ppm in 2021; 50% rise over pre-industrial with 2ppm rise per year)
        Arctic average temperatore anomaly (north of 60°) (1900-2017, Berkeley Earch)
        Global Temperature Report for 2022 (1850-2022)
        
        Comparison of global mean temperature with five other reputable analyses
        Land and Ocean Temperatures (1850-2018)
        Global Warming by Country & Region, 2018 (Arctic Ocean: +2.6°C)
        
        Note: Summer temperatures over ice are always near freezing (any more, and the ice melts away; any less, and there is zero ice melt)
        Arctic Sea Ice Extent (extent, like area, is easier to measure, but less meaningful than the volume of sea ice)
        Ice & Snow Depth Thickness (NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory)
        PIOMAS Arctic Sea Ice Volume, September trend (1979-present)
      - Polar Portal -- Sea Ice Thickness and Volume
      - Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis (NSIDC) Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph
      - Ice Sheets Today (NSIDC) (Greenland and Antarctica)
      - Surface Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet
      - Antarctic Daily Image Update (record lows in 2022 and 2023)
      - Antarctic Sea Ice Concentration/Extent/Thickness (Zachary Labe)
      - PIOMAS Arctic Sea Ice Volume Reanalysis
        
        Sea Ice Thickness and Volume (DMI Polar Portal; Arctic)
        Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volumes, 1979-2018 (30 second video)
        PIOMAS - ArctischePinguin (fits of PIOMAS ice volume, including exponentially and geometrically decreasing fit)
        Compactness (area/extent) from ArctischePinguin
      - Climage Model Projections compared to observations in the Arctic; Zachary Labe (e.g., see first graph: historic forcing of models from 1950-2005, followed by future predictions from 2006 onward, assuming extreme high emissions scenario)
      - CryoSat Operational Monitoring - Sea Ice Thickness (monthly sea ice thickness, except summer)
      - Zachary Labe Arctice Sea Ice Figures
        
        Arctic Sea Ice Volume/Thickness
        Antarctic Sea Ice Concentration/Extent/Thickness
      - Arctic surface melt indicators (and other indicators, such as sea ice concentration animation)
      - Global Cryosphere Watch (Cryosphere Now)
      - Daily AMSR2 sea ice maps (AMSR2, uni-bremen)
        
        Daily AMSR2/uni-bremen sea ice maps (higher precision)
        Daily AMSR2/uni-bremen sea ice maps (higher precision, day before)
        Archive of sea ice concentration (3.125 km)
      - Arctic Sea Ice Forecasts (Physical Sciences Library, NOAA)
      - Sea ice extent during satellite era (from 1979 to present, click to expand)
      - Temperature Anomalies (Climate Reanalyzer) (click globe for different views)
        
        Temperature Anomalies (click on "Hourly Forecast Maps", and choose drop-down menus for GFS|Global 10-day/Arctic/Temperature at 2 meters, or GFS|Global 10-day/Arctic/Temperature 2m Anomaly, and slide the Image Slider)
        or this hi-res arctic view
      - Arctic mean temperatures (1958-present) (Centre for Ocean and Ice, Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut)
      - Freezing degree days (CryosphereComputing)
      - Temperatures in the Arctic (daily, DMI: Center for Ocean og Is, "Ocean and Ice")
      - Monthly Reanalysis Time Series (Change to Variable:850hpa, Month:Jun, Region:Arctic, Plot: A good predictor of Arctic sea ice loss for season)
      - Atmospheric pressure in the Arctic (highs and lows) (daily, DMI: Center for Ocean og Is, "Ocean and Ice")
      - Arctic Ocean sea floor map
      - Arctic Ocean sea floor map (another view of the bathymetry)
      - Arctic Ocean floor (very detailed)
      - Dominating Arctic Ocean currents
      - Windyty, wind map & forecast
      - Jet Stream Position and Forecast and alt (Atlantic)
      - Sea ice temperatures (daily, DMI Sea Ice Portal)
        
        Sea ice extent and thickness (w/ history) (click on "Thickness and volume" tab)
        DMI/COI SST (Sea Surface Temperature)
      - Arctic temperatures - Zachary Labe
      - Arctic weather forecast (based on ECMWF, Meteociel.fr)
      - Arctic weather forecast (based on ECMWF, new version) (or here)
      - Arctic weather forecast (based on ECMWF, old version; choose "N. Hem.", 500hPa, hours from present: T=low, H=high)
      - Polar Met. Arctic forecast (Temp/Wind/MSLP, BPRC/OSU)
      - Surface Temperatures Anomaly (animation)
      - Polar Portal (Greenland and Arctic Sea Ice)
      - Rutgers Global Snow Lab (daily and monthly maps, with anomalies; try: "Daily" -> "Chart Departure")
        
        Evidence of human influence on Northern Hemisphere snow loss (esp., see Figure 3 and 4)
      - Energy balance of Earth (Encyclopedia of Earth) (with insolation chart)
      - Climate and Earth's Energy Budget (NASA site, excellent!)
      - Arctic Mosaic (LANCE-MODIS) (satellite picture of Arctic ice, prev/next button shows different days; click on "MODIS Mosaics")
        
        MODIS Composites from previous week (or go directly to MODIS Mosaics page, search for "MODIS Composites", choose jpeg, false colour, right-click for "view image", and click again for full size)
        EOSDIS Worldview (NASA) (set for Arctic, continuous zoom; based on Worldview 2 with 46 cm resolution; or customized EOSDIS Worldview)
        
        Worldview 3 (permission given by US Dept. of Commerce for 25 cm panchromatic satellite images; sample images on view)
        
        Polar View (multiple sources of satellite imagery for greater detail; can add AMSR2 sea ice in background for context)
        
        Polar View Arctic sea ice browser (select "Start using the map", select a rectangle of interest, and click on download link (reduced or full resolution)
        Lincoln Sea of Greenland (from ESA Sentinel-1, with other Polar View regions, too, from Polar View Copernicus program)
        
        arctic.io (check out Home/Zooms for continuous zoom of arctic ice)
        Zoomed images
      - Copernicus Open Access Hub (Sign up, then choose color product of Sentinel-2a and Sentinel-2b0
      - Dossier Modèles Numériques (How to read weather maps, French)
      - Global HYCOM+CICE 1/12 degree page (Naval Research Laboratory)
      - Arctic: Global HYCOM (Naval Research Laboratory,
        
        Arctic Ice Thickness (30-day animation)
        Sea Surface Temperature (30 day animation)
        Arctic ice speed and drift
      - Visualization Service of Horizontal scale Observations at Polar region: (JAXA, choose "Image Select" for different features)
      - Sea ice (from MET in Norway; with Concentration of Arctic ice (daily), and Edge of Arctic ice (daily) and Sea Ice Type (multi-year ice, daily))
        
        Arctic Sea Ice Age, 1990 - 2016
        Ice chart
      - How does Arctic sea ice form and decay - Wadhams
      - Arctic Sea Ice Charts from Danish Meteorological Institute, 1893-1956
      - Historical ice maps from about 1900 (English and Icelandic, try Aug)
      - Sea Ice Atlas (1850 - present, near Alaska)
      - Historic Variation in Arctic Ice (author seems to feel that current summer melting of Arctic is not unusual by historic standards, but nevertheless a fascinating history of Arctic ice observations from about 1800 - 1900)
    - Phys.org - sea ice
    - Trends in Carbon Dioxide (Mauna Loa, 1959 - present)
    - Trends in Carbon Dioxide for last 800,000 years (NASA)
    - National Wave Service: WaveWatch
  - Sea ice blogs, talks, and general background
    - Arctic Sea Ice Blog
    - Climate Central
    - Open Mind (blog on global warming by "tamino")
      - Correcting for More than Just El Niño (excellent! removing noise from the trends)
    - RealClimate (blog by climate scientists)
    - Skeptical Science (Examination of climate change skepticism arguments)
      - ENSO Temperatures through 2019 (or alt)
      - ENSO Temperature Trends (factoring out El Niño years and volcanic years provides almost linear temperature trend; also see here)
    - How fast are the oceans warming? (Science Magazine; Jan., 2019; acceleration measured by latest observational records; the 2013 int. assessment report (AR5) had disagreement between model and earlier observations; observations were too low; three new observational studies in 2017 and 2018 using the Argo network now have much closer agreement to each other and to the model)
    - Antarctica losing six times more ice mass annually now than 40 years ago (phys.org news, Jan., 2019)
      - Scientists link climate change to melting in West Antarctica (pys.org news; Aug., 2014)
    - C34A-07 - Collapse of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf by intersecting fractures. (Invited) (Thwaites ice shelf, the size of Florida, could collapse in 5 years)
      - International Thwaites Glacier Collaboratoin: What is happening at Thwaites Glacier? (Oct., 2021)
    - Greenland ice melt at "tipping point" (Proc. Nat. Academy Sciences, Jan., 2019: "Accelerating changes in ice mass within Greenland")
    - The Great White Con: Putting the Arctic sea ice record straight (combating misinformation by some newspapers, often with a touch of humor)
    - RealClimateScience (global warming deniers: very funny stuff (like reading supermarket tabloids: "baby born with two heads"), and we now have record cold temperatures that have been falling ever since the 1930s)
    - Watts Up With That (climate denier blog, often emphasizing politics over science; including things like History Confirms Democrat's 1988 Senate Global Warming Hearing Got Everything Wrong from Start to Finish; April, 2021)
    - James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss (TED Talk, youtube)
    - Glacier Change: From a Glacier's Perspective
    - Debunking Climate Skeptics: Chuck Kutscher, Ph.D. (workshop given for Colorado State Legislature)
    - How does Arctic sea ice form and decay
    - Limits of Arctic Ice from 1893 onward (Icelandic Meteorological Office)
    - Major Icebreakers of the World (including 5 Russian, nuclear LNG tankers, can break through 2~meters of ice with little speed reduction; 5 more planned/under construction as of May, 2017)
    - Historic Variation in Arctic Ice (author seems to feel that current summer melting of Arctic is not unusual by historic standards, but nevertheless a fascinating history of Arctic ice observations from about 1800 - 1900)
  - General climate drivers
    - Global ocean heat and salt content (NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center)
    - Arctic Oscillation Index (National Weather Service, Climate Prediction Center)
    - Multivariate ENSO Index (ENSO = "El Niño/Southern Oscillation": positive = El Niño)
    - Sunspot index graphs (from SIDC)
    - Animation of North America Jet Stream
    - Meltfactor.org
    - US Drought Monitor
  - Arctic Map (zoomable and detailed)
  - Arctic Ice Thickness (Ice Volume --- long-term, arctic ice volume will be more important than ice extent or ice area)
    - BBC News on Cryosat (June, 2011; sea-ice thickness map)
    - Measurement of sea ice thickness (Wikipedia)
    - CryoSat-2 (satellite of European Space Agency, altimeter measures land and sea ice thickness)
      - Ice Thickness map of Arctic (June, 2011)
    - ICESat (wikipedia, NASA satellite for measuring ice sheets)
      - ICESat-2 (planned successor satellite by NASA, to launch in 2016)
      - NASA measurements (older)
    - Polar Science Center: Arctic Sea Ice Volume Anomaly, version 2.1 (PIOMAS model for estimating sea ice volume based on numerical modelling with observations from satellites, Navy submarines, moorings, and field measurements as input: In 2010, the September volume (min. volume) was approximately 1/3 of the corresponding mean volume for the same month over the years 1979-2010.)
      - PIOMAS seasonal predictions for ice thickness
    - DMI Polar Portal (sea ice volume) (Click on "in English", and then "Thickness and volume" tab, and then on "Large version of graph"; gray area around the mean is one standard deviation over the years 2004-2013)
    - Ice Graphs (from The Great White Con)
  - Lake Mead Water Levels (effect of drought) (or alt)
  - Lake Powell Water Levels (effect of drought)
  - Competition between Airbus and Boeing (Wikipedia)
    - Fuel economy of Airbus A380neo vs. Boeing
  - Pew Center for Climate Change
  - The Heat is Online (news on global warming)
  - United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  - Fifth National Climate Assessment (impact on society: economy, water, forests, coast, air quality, etc.)
  - Arctic Report Card (yearly assessment of Arctic)
  - Interactive map: warmest month of future cities in 2050 (Crowther Lab, based on IPCC optimistic scenario RCP4.5, 1.4° Celsius increase in global tempoerature) (or interactive map)
  - Find a Car (car mileage and global warming, by car model)
    - Kelley Blue Book Best Hybrid Cars
  - GAP (Government Accountability Project) from whistleblower.org
- OECD (also here) (Org. for Economic Cooperation and Dev.)
- World Bank data
- International Federation of Robotics, PRess Releases (International Federation of Robotics)
  - Executive Summary World Robotics 2023 Industrial Robots
  - Executive Summary World Robotics 2023 - Service Robots
- MIT Living Wage Calculator
- FRED - Economic Research
- Unemployed and Discouraged Workers - FRED
- Daily Treasury Yield Curve Rates
  - The Yield Curve as a Leading Indicator (probability of having a recession one year later)
- Since Parkland (student reporters report on over a 1,000 fatal shootings of children that occurred in the year after Parkland, because most such shootings aren't normally reported in newspapers: working with The Trace, Miami Herald, and McClatchy)
- Is Automation Labor-Displacing? (statistical evidence that automation no longer creates new jobs; March, 2018)
- (also see Latin America)
  - World Bank statistics
- IMF (Int. Monetary Fund)
UT Latin American Network Information Center
- Latin American Economic and Social Indicators (USAID)
- IADB (Inter-American Dev. Bank)
- Basic Socio-Economic Data for Latin America and the Caribbean
Countries
- Canada
  - Quebec
    - Bonjour Québec accommodations (official tourism site)
    - Bed and breakfast, Montréal
    - Bed and breakfasts, Montréal (from toutmontreal.com)
    - Phone calls between Canada and U.S. - use Google Voice w/ forwarding from American incoming phone to a Canadian phone, etc.
    - Transfer Money Online | Send Money Abroad with "Wise"
    - Auberge Montréal (residences at UQAM starting at $45) (Auberge Festivals Montréal, (starting at CA$46 or CA$56, no hotel tax))
    - McGill summer residences ( Bishop Mountain Hall, starting at CA$45/night)
    - Solo Mobile pay-as-you-go cell phone
  - Tourism Montreal
    - Montreal Festivals
    - Montreal official portal (français)
- Latin America
  - HITN TV (public TV in the United States, in spanish)
  - TeleSur (TV supported by governments of Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay)
  - Latin Trade (magazine)
  - El Herald
- China: People's Daily Online
  - The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism (a history of the economic environment in China)
  - Map of provinces of China, with capital cities
  - news.163.com (Chinese news page; Right-click and Google translate in Chrome browser)
  - The Heat (from CGTN; half-hour in-depth news program from a Chinese perspective, on a new topic each week)
  - Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS -- backed by People's Bank of China in 2015; Analog of SWIFT)
  - PBS NewsHour Presents China: Power and Prosperity (or alt; July, 2020; balanced documentary on China's future)
  - Mapping China's middle class (75 percent of urban consumers will be middle class by 2022)
  - China's Future Megaprojects (2016-2050)
  - Beijing Air Quality Monitor (particles < 2.5 micron, U.S. Embassy Monitor in Beijing)
    - For comparison, EPA Peak 2.5 micron level in U.S. (with color chart explanations here and here)
- Cuba
- France
  - Combien de bises ?
  - Établissement public à caractère scientifique et technologique
  - The Paris Pages
    - Transilien (suburban trains) schedules (or alt)
    - paris.fr
    - Museums
    - Museums of Paris
    - Reasonabl lease of 21 days or more of new car
    - Mémorial de la Shoah
    - Musée National du Moyen-Age Thermes de Cluny
    - Musée Carnavalet - Histoire de Paris or alt
    - Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
    - Magasin de DVD -- Rue Sainte-Antoine à l'ouest de l'église Saint-Paul.
    - " Kiosque Place de la Madeleine, Paris 2me; Kiosque Gare Montparnasse, Paris 14me; Et Le dernier n : Kiosque Place des Ternes, Paris 17me Horaires : mardi - samedi de 12h30 20h et dimanche de 12h30 16h"
    - Paris Airport Shuttle
  - Toulouse
    - Hébergement temporaire, LAAS CNRS
  - Office de Tourisme de Montpellier
  - montpellier.fr - site de la Mairie de Montpellier
  - Le Guide Montpellier
  - Tourisme
  - Kamini - Marly-Gomont
    - Kamini (mix sur youtube)
- Germany (Yahoo)
  - German weather
  - Stadtplandienst (city maps)
  - Berlin
  - Internationale Stadt Berlin
  - Bonn
  - Essen
  - Hamburg
- Iraq
  - Informed Comment Blog on Iraq with excellent background to current stories
  - Informed Comment: Global Affairs
  - Iraq Coalition Casualties (especially useful, now that major news outlets tend not to report this)
  - Iraq Body Count (documented casualties with names; )
  - Opinion Research Business survey (22% of respondents lost one family member or more living under their roof due to the war)
  - Sworn statements by Abu Ghraib detainees
  - Juan Cole's Informed Comment (Blog of news and analysis about Iraq)
  - and civilians killed in Iraq
- Israel - Tourist Information Israel
- > History of the Jews, Vol. 1 - 6 (by Heinrich Graetz, written in second half of 19th century, originally in German)
- HISTOIRE DES JUIFS (by Hienrich Graetz, originally in German)
- Ha'aretz - English (excellent, more progressive perspective than American newspapers)
- Jerusalem Post (Israel)
- Letter of Albert Einstein, Dec. 4, 1948, on the visit of Mehachen Begin to the United States
  - How many Palestinians actually live in the West Bank?
- Israel-Gaza 2023-2024 war (live tracker, Al Jazeera)
  - Children and others reported killed as of UN relief agency Flash Update 66 of Dec. 11, 2023 (unless otherwise noted):
    - Gaza Strip children killed: "According to the Government Media Office, as of 18:00 on 23 November, more than 14,800 people have been killed in Gaza, including about 6,000 children and 4,000 women." ("The Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza stopped doing so on 11 November, following the collapse of services and communications at hospitals in the north.")
    - West Bank children killed: "Between 7 October and 27 November, 231 Palestinians, including 59 children were killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem." *UNOCHA Flash Update #76, 22 December, 2023)
    - Israeli children killed:
    - Over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals have been killed in Israel, including 36 children ... the vast majority on 7 October (UNOCHA Flash Update #66, Dec. 11, 2023)
      - Israel social security data reveals true picture of Oct 7 deaths (France 24: more precise numbers based on Israeli soc. sec. records: 695 Israeli civilians killed, 71 foreigners, and 375 security forces (3 days of heavvy fighting); Israeli civilians break down into: 36 children (10 dead by rockets))
      - As Nov. 14, 36 Israeli children killed, including 5 Muslim children killed by rocket attack (no Iron Dome protection for Bedouin villages)
      - Mila Cohen (the Israeli baby that was shot by Hamas through the door of the safe room, and killed)
      - "Authorities name 351 soldiers, 59 police officers killed in Gaza war" (Oct. 8, 2023)
        
        Israeli officials say 1,139 were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks in southern Israel, among them 695 Israeli civilians including 36 children."
        (Dec. 15, AFP News agency compilation from Israeli social security, reported by trtworld.com: "695 Israeli civilians, including 36 children, as well as 373 security forces and 71 foreigners, giving a total of 1,139")
        Crisis in Gaza: Scenario-Based Health Impact Projections (6 months at status quo: Feb. 7 - Aug. 6: 66,720 mean deaths, with 95% uncertainty interval: 48,210 to 193,180)
      - Israel's Dead: The Names of Those Killed in Hamas Attacks, Massacres and the Israel-Hamas War (about 950 names associated w/ Oct. 7; music festival, civilians, and soldiers; requires free e-mail Haaretz sign-up)
      - 729 names of Israeli civilians killed in Hamas attack (AOAV; as of Nov. 3, 2023)
      - UPDATED LIST: They were taken by Hamas; here are the names and faces (Israel Hayom: Mar. 32, 2024)
      - "and 3,400 others have been injured in Israel in connection with the Hamas attack" (ABC News, Oct. 17) "At least 4,834 people were injured on October 7. Dozens of them are still hospitalized." (Times of Israel, Nov. 7)
      - Names of Palestinian dead, 7--26 Oct., 2023; Palestinian Ministry of Health (2913 children and 4115 adults; 3,129 females and 3,899 males; 212 pages, but volume 2 is missing)
    - Israel revises death count from Oct. 7 Hamas onslaght, dropping it from 1,400 to 1,200 Nov. 10, 2023 ("Haiat declines to elaborate on the record what led to the updated figure, but Hebrew media reporting on the lowered number from recent days attributed it to burned bodies being misidentified as those of Israeli civilians, rather than Palestinian terrorists."; and Israel revises death toll from Oct. 7 Hamas assault, dropping it from 1,400 to 1,200; and dropping to 1,147 on Dec. 3)
    - Other reports of Israeli helicopters counter-attacking starting in the first hour after the fence was broken through: "Save us": The Apache pilots who arrived first on the battlefield speak; Hamas deception of IDF helicopters directing pilots on WhatsApp | Air Force on the 1st
      - Israel-Palestine war: Why is the media ignoring evidence of Israel’s own actions on 7 October? (Dec. 15, 2023) (opinion piece comparing Israeli and Hamas narrative of Oct. 7)
      - (Hamas 2017 charter, with the phrase "from the river to the sea": Paragraph 20; from the site of the "Federation of American Scientists")
    - Gaza (by Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit, Oct., 2024; video of 1:20')
    - IPC/Gaza: Oct., 2024; and Projection for Nov., 2024-Apr., 2025 (with Special Snapshot: Sept., 20240Apr., 2025)
    - "over 15 percent (378,000 people) were in Catastrophe[/Famine] (IPC Phase 5)" (as of Dec. 8, 2023; from Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC); Famine definition: "the absolute inaccessibility of food to an entire population or sub-group of a population, potentially causing death in the short term")
      - Gaza Strip: Famine Review of the IPC Analysis (Dec. 21, 2023; pdf report: "At least one in four households (more than half a million people) in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic acute food insecurity conditions (IPC Phase 5 – Catastrophe)")
      - FACT SHEET: The IPC Famine Factsheet (IPC) (Factsheet from Dec., 2023: "Deaths of two people or four children for every 10,000 each day due to outright starvation or to the interaction of malnutrition and disease.")
      - IPC Global Initiative - Special Brief (IPC Special Brief from Mar. 18, 2024: Formal definition of famine to occur anytime between mid-March and May 2024.")
      - Policy paper: Israel’s policy of starvation in Gaza will have long-term effects, is causing famine (A formal famine declaration requires stakeholders to declare it, and so it may never happen.)
      - UN Food Agency pauses [food] deliveries to North of Gaza (Feb. 20, 2024: "... surrounded by crowds of hungry people. Several trucks were looted between Khan Younes and Deir al Balah and a truck driver was beaten.")
      - Gaza Strip: IPC Acute Food Insecurity Special Snapshot (1 May – 30 September 2024) (June 25, 2024) (or the pdf file)
    - FOOD SECURITY UPDATE For Internally Displaced Populations in Southern Gaza Strip (WFP: World Food Programme)
      - Gaza on the brink as one in four people face extreme hunger (20 December, 2023)
      - "Palestinian civilians on their daily fight for survival" (Abeer Barakat: ordinary life in Gaza as seen by a mother of four and English teacher: Minute 8 to minute 23)
      - B'Tselem report from Israel: Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps (with pdf)
    - The IDF publishes a list of block numbers to guide Gaza residents in evacuating the targeted areas (Dec. 1, 2023; from IDF military web site)
    - `A mass assassination factory': Inside Israel's calculated bombing of Gaza (by Yuval Abraham; Mov. 30, 2023) ("Sources who spoke to '+972 and Local Call' [said] the targets in Gaza ... by Israeli aircraft can be divided roughly into four categories: [ (i) tactical targets (armed militant cells, weapon warehouses, launch pits, observation posts, and so on); (ii) underground targets (mainly tunnels that Hamas has dug under Gaza's neighborhoods, including under civilian homes); (iii) power targets (high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices; three intelligence source who were involved in planning or conducting strikes on power targets in the past, is that a deliberate attack on Palestinian society will exert 'civil pressure' on Hamas); and (iv) family homes or operatives' homes (to destroy private residences in order to assassinate a single resident suspected of being a Hamas or Islamic Jihad operative; Palestinian testimonies assert that some of the families that were killed did not include any operatives from these organizations) ]")
      - A Gazan worked in Israeli kibbutzim for decades. Then came Oct. 7 (One of Gazan farm workers killed on Oct. 7: Hashim al-Birawi)
      - Israeli prisons for Palestinians
      - Local Call (published jointly by Just Vision and +972; but this sister site is Hebrew; use a Google Translate plugin)
    - BBC HardTalk interview of former prime minister Bennett defending Israeli position on Gaza War
    - Defense for Children International - Palestine, et al. v. Biden et al. "... duty to prevent ... the unfolding genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza")
      - Bosnian genocide (Wikipedia) (estimated 25,000 - 33,000 deaths, and about 10,500 missing)
    - Coutercurrents.org: Palestine
    - Congressional Dissent Channel (anonymous channel for junior staff in Congress (the onew who actually read the constituent messages); from the Mission Statement: " dedicated to changing the paradigm of U.S. support for the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza")
  - West Bank settlements
    - New Yorker Radio Hour: Aug. 2, 2024 (two books: by Nathan Thrall, American former director of Arab-Israeli Project; and by Raja Shehadeh, Ramallah peace activist, author and lawyer)
    - West Bank Settlements; Israel Policy Forum (from viewpoint of American Jewish community; advocating for two-state solution; e.g,. "Settlements deep in the West Bank in areas slated for evacuation do not pose a demographic threat.")
    - Quick Facts: Israel's West Bank Settlement Enterprise; Institute for Middle East Understanding (from viewpoint of Palestinians and Palestinian-Americans; e.g., "More than 1,000: Miles of roads and highways that Israel has built for the use of settlers")
    - Knesset votes overwhelmingly against Palestinian statehood, days before PM’s US trip ("The Knesset of Israel firmly opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state west of Jordan. The establishment of a Palestinian state in the heart of the Land of Israel will pose an existential danger to the State of Israel and its citizens, perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and destabilize the region,” -- passed 68 to 9, against two-state solution)
    - A Land for All (proposal for confederation: one citizenship, two regions of residency)
  - B'Tselem (Israeli) report: Conquer and Divide (a history of West Bank lands from 1967 to 2015) (including a detailed interactive map of West Bank and various land partitions)
  - Arab Labor - Season 1
  - Christians United for Israel | Our Mission ("As the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States, with over 10 million members, Christians United for Israel (CUFI) is ...")
    - 'Til Kingdon Come (2020 documentary)
  - Israel --- issues of democracy, state, and religion
    - Rosa Luxemburg Office
    - Yeshayahu Liebowitz (influential thinker in 20th century Israel --- arguing for separation of state and religion)
    - Tikun Olam (blog "promoting Israeli democracy" from a left-wing perspective; by Richard Silverstein)
    - Max Blumenthal (blog at Alternet)
    - Yesh Din (Volunteers for Human Rights)
    - Gideon Levy - Israel News (Haaretz: largest English newspaper in Israel) (older articles are free to view)
    - Adam Raz book: "The Road to October 7: Benjamin Netanyahu, the Production of the Endless Conflict and Israel’s Moral Degradation" (Israeli goal of helping Hamas, to sabotage a two-state solution)
    - Omer Bartov book: "Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich" (World War II German ideology: German army soldiers fighting for "Shield of Honor" against Judeo-Bolshevik threat from the East
    - Ilan Pappe book: "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"
    - Daniel Levy (and Tony Karon; The Nation): "Israel Is Losing This War", Dec. 2023 (Daniel Levy was one of the Israeli negotiators during the Osla 2 talks); along with: Breaking the Israel-Palestine Status Quo (a one-state solution based on "full equality and enfranchisement for all those residing in the territory under Israeli control and jurisdiction")
    - Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP ("the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world.")
    - If Not Now (" movement of American Jews organizing our community to end U.S. support for Israel's apartheid system and demand equality, justice, and a thriving future for all Palestinians and Israelis"; with audio interview)
      - Bisected by a Jews-only Road, a Palestinian Neighborhood in Hebron Is Dying (mostly non-Jews living on either side of the road, but it's illegal for them to cross the Jews-only Road)
    - The Forward (since 1897)
    - Forest of Noise: Poems
    - Jewish Voice for Peace
    - Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP)
      - La Politique Criminelle d'Israël en Palestine Nuit aussi aux Juifs ! - Michèle Sibony
    - Sara Roy (expert on Gaza, at Harvard University)
    - Arabs outnumber Jews in Israel, Occupied Territories: Official (Al Jazeera)
    - Live from Occupied Palestine (many moving pictures)
    - 70+ Israel/Palestine Films Available for Borrowing for Free (JVP Boston: Jewish Voice For Peace)
    - Checkpoint (documentary in cinéma vérité, 2003, directed by Yoav Shamir, Eden Productions; Best Int'l documentary: Int'l Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, and others)
    - Israel movement that dare not speak its name (Gideon Levy)
    - One state, two states, whatever: Israel, the Palestinians and the conflict (Haaretz)
    - 1-State or 2-State solution? (New York Times)
    - Adalah (legal center for Arab minority rights)
    - Abraham Initiatives ("strives to fulfill the promise of full and equal citizenship and complete equality of social and political rights for Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens, as embodied in Israel's Declaration of Independence")
    - Israel among the nations: a study of the Jews and antisemitism (from Les juifs et l'antisémitisme: Israël chez les nations)
    - Antisemitism in the United States: Henry Ford Invents a Jewish Conspiracy
    - What is antisemitism? (IHRA)
    - The Jerusalem Declaration On Antisemitism
  - Annotated Links (peace oriented)
  - Seruv (or alt)
  - Tikkun
  - Breaking the Silence (organization of Israeli soldier veterans, with Tours- Hebron, soldiers' testimonies and video testimonies)
  - United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (led by Justice Richard Goldstone, for UN Human Rights Commission, Sept. 15, 2009; including issues of international laws)
  - BBC article on items allowed and not allowed into Gaza Strip (The Israeli government argues in their courts that they cannot disclose what is allowed into Gaza because it would "damage national security and harm foreign relations". - 5/3/10, BBC, quote from Israeli government; As of May, 2010, it included "jam, chocolate, wood for furniture, fruit juice, textiles, and plastic toys.")
  - Mideast Web
  - Anne Frank home page
  - Association of Holocaust Organizations
  - Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (founded by Steven Spielberg)
  - Nizkor Home Page (Holocaust documentation)
  - #lastseen image Atlas
  - holocaust.juden-in-europa.de
  - Antisemitic Legislation 1933-39 (Holocaust encyclopedia)
    - Aristides de Sousa Mendes (a hero who was a Portuguese consul in France, and saved tens of thousands of lives)
    - Chiuna Sugihara (a hero who was a Japanse consul in Lithuania, and saved thousands of lives)
  - The Crusades (1095 - 1291) (Jewish Virtual Library)
  - Simon Wiesenthal Center
  - This Week in Palestine
  - Breaking the Silence
    - Tours- Hebron
  - B'Tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories: including Restrictions on Movement; and an analysis of the current laws as compared to Apartheid.)
  - < Adalah: The Legal Center for Aarba Humanity Rights in Israel ( Adalah spotlights top five 2016 human rights concerns for Palestinian citizens of Israel)
  - Israel: Discriminatory Land Policies Hem in Palestinians (Human Rights Watch, 2020)
  - Yesh Din ("Volunteers for Human Rights", Israeli non-profit)
  - HEB2, Experimental Internet Broadcasting out of H2 Hebron (collaboration of Israeli and Palestinian activists)
  - Palestinian web site links (Birzeit University) (also try this and Palestine Remembered)
  - Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine (including Palestinians in Israel)
  - Trump and Congress: Living Israel to Death
- Japan Window
- Russia (Window-to-Russia Home Page)
  - Tchaikovsky - Pique Dame (Paris National Opera, 2005)
    - libretto (Russian) and libretto (English)
- Si, Spain (from Spanish foreign affairs ministry)
  - Europe Online -- Spain
  - Spain
- United Kingdom
  - Virtual London
  - Al Jazeera's Labour Files (largest leak of documents in British political history; senior officials in one of the two parties of government in the UK ran a coup by stealth against the elected leader of the party)
History
- Geo History (youtube: history in maps) (or Histoire Géo in french)
- History of Russia (youtube playlist with maps)
- World War II - Summary on a Map
- Pre-Columbian history
- The American Genocide of the Indians—Historical Facts and Real Evidence (by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Mar. 2, 2022)

FirstGov (official U.S. index of government web pages)

United States Federal government
Federal Statistics (collected from many agencies)
Statistics Data portal of Center for Immigration Studies (right-leaning organization? see iie.org for higher quality data)
- Nonimmigrant Visa Statistics (F-1 visa, etc.) (From 2015 to 2019, student visas were cut almost in half.)
- Open Doors (with all places of origin of international scholars
- Project Atlas (from iie.org)
  - Project Atlas Infographics and Data (select "reporting year", and then "Choose a Country")
  - Inbound Students Mobility (from iie.org; number of students studying in different countries)
- ASPI’s two-decade Critical Technology Tracker (Executive Summary)
  "Over the 21-year period, the US has been unable to hold its research advantage. In the early to mid-2000s, the US was by far the dominant research power. ... Over two decades, however, that research lead has slipped to only seven technologies [ out of 64] (in the 2019–2023 ranking)."
  - ASPI’s two-decade Critical Technology Tracker: The rewards of long-term research investment (by ASPI: Australian Strategic Poicy Institute, Aug., 2024)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Number of manufacturing jobs (set initial year to 1939; currently at 13 million jobs, lowest since end of Depression)
Statistical Abstract
Census Bureau Home Page
- US Census Guide: How to get the most out of CENSUS.GOV (part of bacgroundchecks.org -- free online directory and portal)
International Programs Center
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (with patent search and trademark search)
FedWorld Beta Home Page
Search FirstGov (Gov Web Pages)
National Technical Information Service Filename: http://www.fedworld.gov/ntis/ntishome.html
Consumer Information Center (Pueblo, Colorado)
WOT: Web of Trust (check out new web sites: users rank trustworthiness)
Tax law, summarized by topic (Cornell U.)
State Balance of Payments with the Federal Government
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
- "If judges were secret legislators, declaring not what the law is but what they would like it to be, the very idea of a government by the people and for the people would be at risk." (by Justice Neil Gorsuch at his Senate hearing for the Supreme Court)
- Strict Scrutiny (podcast about "the Supreme Court and the legal case that surrounds it")
- Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States (draft final report, Dec., 2021)
- The Scheme (Sheldon Whitehouse)
  - (for example, The Scheme 17: The Captive Court)
- Federalist Society (Wikipedia; 6 Supreme Court justices were former members of the Federalist Society in 2022)
White House
U.S. House of Representatives
The U.S. Senate
Votes in the House and Senate (including Office of the Clerke: U.S. House votes and Recent Senate Roll Call Votes; And look for "Text" tab, to see the text of a bill or resolution.)
Thomas legislative information (with status)
U.S. Congressional Record
U.S. Judicial Branch Resources (U.S. code, judicial opinions, etc.)
Vote Smart Web (info about candidates)
League of Women Voters
Gerrymandering Project
Are Your Neighbors Mostly Democrats or Republicans? (New York Times app: needs Javascript)
Questions and Answers: Interstate Crosscheck Program & Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) (Advancement Project: voter protection) (and some states are now leaving ERIC)
Crosscheck lists from Georgia and Virginia (see if you would be under suspicion of double voting, and possibly struck from the voting rolls)
opensecrets.org (tracks money in politics)
POGO (Project on Government Oversight)
The Intercept (with weekly podcast, Intercepted)
HeatStreet/politics
Democracy Place, USA
Rishing (daily show from The Hill) (with The Hill youtube channel)
Secular Talk Radio (or alt; Kyle Kulinski)
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Operation Ghetto Storm (In 2012, a black person was killed by law enforcement at least every 28 hours; This report lists them and those public facts that are available)
Propublica study: Deadly Force in Black and White (A black person is 21 times more likely to be killed by law enforcement than a white person.)
Mass Shooting Tracker
Gun Violence Archive (click "Search Database" in upper right)
15 Celebs You Didn't Know Were Muslim
Halal in the Family
Mondoweiss
Election Line (primaries, etc.)
Media Cloud
List of United Stated presidential elections by popular vote margin (and see US Presidential elections popular votes since 1900)
Politics Now
dKosopedia (political encyclopedia, progressive point of view)
How Money Drives US Congressional Elections (by Ferguson, Jorgensen and Chen, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics)
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (from Harper's Weekly in 1860's)
Inflation calculator
IRS Forms and Publications
OpenTaxSolver (free, open source program for calculating tax forms (federal and Mass., Cal., N.Y., and others; can be combined with Adobe Fill-in forms)
Turbotax Sucks Ass (how to find the vendors' free tax web sites, instead of the advertised for-pay sites)
Citizens for Tax Justice
LegalZoon (legal help for filling out legal wills, incorporation, etc.)
Bloomberg billionaires index
- Donald Trump net worth (Bloomberg billionaires index)
Nonprofit Explorer (ProPublica: nonprofit tax filings)

NYC Information Page

New England Online

Massachusetts (also see local info)

MassGIS -- Online Mapping
Elections Division (Register, Absentee Ballot, Am I Registered?)
Official City of Boston
Boston Online
Government (Boston & Mass.)
Spot Angels, Boston (on-street parking)
Spot Angels, Brookline (on-street parking)
PayByPlate (for Massachusetts highway tolls)
Massachusetts Tax Forms

Martindale's Map pointers (also see reference, travel, and international travel)

Waze maps (detailed warnings of current traffic jams, blocked roads, etc.)
Bing Maps (Microsoft: interactive maps around the world, aerial view, 3D, etc.)
United Nations Cartographic Section maps
PCL Map Collection
Historical Map Web Sites
Historical Maps Overview
Oddens's bookmarks (maps)
Google Maps
Google Earth
Microsoft TerraServer (on-line aerial imagery database)
mapsatellitehd.com
hdsatelliteviewmap.com
EarhExplorer (USGS)
Census TMS Home Page
- TMS Experimental Browser (U.S. Census maps)
- TMS Experimental Browser (older version)
Map Collection (Library of Congress)
Rare Map Collection
The Rhyiner-Project at the U. Library of Berne
Map Maker - nationalatlas.gov (interactive)
National Map (Interactive) (USGS)

Ethnologue (languages of the world)

Language Families
The Human-Languages Page
Language Exchange (lingua2.eu)
Tandem Server Bochum (free server to match partners for tandem learning by e-mail/IM/phone; includes links for learning strategies; summary of pairs matched)
Western European Literature
Chinese
FranceLink: Portail francophone
- Wikipédia (encyclopédia)
- Encyclopédie de Diderot et D'Alembert
- Wiktionnaire
  - Wiktionnaire:Actualités
- Portail lexical (avec morphologie, prononciation, lexicographie, Ã©tymologie, ...; du Centre National De Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales)
- Dictionnaire français-anglais (ledictionnaireanglais.com, excellent!)
- Dictionnaires français en ligne
- Dictionnaires
  - Wiktionnaire
  - Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française, 9ème édition
    - Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française, 8ème édition
  - Linguee - Dictionnaire anglais-français (Excellent! With many translations in context)
  - Example sentences using words that you suggest
  - Webster's Online Dictionary (with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation)
  - Larousse online dictionaries
  - French/Spanish/English/Italian Dictionary (wordreference.com)
  - Dictionnaires de Larousse (bilingue, français-anglais)
  - English-French dictionary (bab.la)
  - French Dictionary (babylon.com on-line translator)
  - Dictionary of English and French Idioms, Illustrating, by Phrases and Examples the Peculiarities of Both Languages
  - Dictionnaire de la langue française (L'internaute magazine)
  - Dictionnaire français en ligne - LEXILOGOS
  - French course, on the principle of contrasts and comparison, on a plan securing, for each pupil of a class individually, constant speaking combined with extreme fluency
  - Les expressions françaises décortiquées
  - Frequent word lists (French and English)
  - Dictionnaire des synonymes
- French verb conjugator
- French glue words
- French cheeses
- Courrier International (revue de presse)
- Mediapart (Site d'information français d'actualités indépendant et participatif en ligne)
- StreetPress
- Les Crises
- Contrepoints
- "I Have a Message for You” (13-minute, very moving film)
- Le Dessous des Cartes (Arte) (asks for money to hear more than the first minute)
- Arrêt sur Images (Décryptage et analyse de l'actualité des médias)
- Europe1 (talk radio from France) (If the embedded player fails to start for you, try mms://viplagardere.yacast.net/encodereurope1 or http://webradio.europe1.fr/V4/europe1/europe1.m3u with your favorite player)
- Radio France Internationale (with web player)
  - Les journaux pour télécharger
  - RFI Monde (live)
  - RFI Monde (alt)
  - RFI: Proche et Moyen-Orient (mp3: replace date by current date)
  - Radio France Internationale -- Podcast
  - RFI - apprendre la langue française
- Radio France (French public radio)
  - Radio France direct (MP3): FAQ (and select "je souhaite écouter le direct en insérant l'adresse mp3 dans mon lecteur audio")
  - France Inter (direct) (and MP3 stream from here)
    - France Inter (podcasts)
    - France Inter Fiction radiophoneique (podcasts)
      - Rená, le premier Goncourt noir
  - France Info Direct (with France Info - use web player and MP3 stream, and France Info Mp3 Download)
  - LCP Assemblée nationale | LCP - direct TNT Dailymotion
- Radio en Montréal
  - CBF-FM - Premiére Chaîne Montreal 95.1 FM (listen online via tunein.com)
  - CBF-FM - Premiére Chaîne Quebec City, Saint-George-de-Beauce 96.7 FM (listen online via tunein.com)
  - Radio-Canada.ca (Première Chaine Radio Désautels and RDI en direct)
  - La Zone Audio-Vidéo - Radio-Canada
  - Cckvl.ca Télé-Radio internet
  - CHOQ.FM : radio UQAM
- TVPlayer (British TV; restricted to Britain)
- Programme TV (Télérama.fr) (Grille)
- Séries-TV (in France)
- FreeInterTV.com (online TV from many countries)
- L'Intégrale de Zapping (Canal+)
- Les Guignols de L'Info (Canal+)
- Les Jupons de l'Histoire
- Direct 8 TV live
- TV5 Monde TV Online ("Le Journal" uniquement)
- TV5 Monde Europe in streaming (avec grille)
- TVE Internacional (espagnol)
- En directo; La 1 de TVE
- Arte+7 replay (ça dépend le programme; depuis l'étranger: ARTE journal ARTE Reportage, et des autres))
- Pluzz.fr (voir ou revoir les programmes de France télévisions; seulement en France)
- Les Vidéos (Franc2)
- WRN Français (World Radio Network)
- France 24 or alt
- LCI (La Chaine Info)
- LCP (Assemblée Nationale)
- RTL (Radio Télévision Luxembourg)
- Rue89 (news magazine)
- What The Fake (contre la haine, l'extrémisme, et la manipulation en ligne ; surtout contre l'islamophobie)
- Amitié judéo-musulmane de France
- Audio français gratuit en ligne
  - ina.fr (Institut National Audiovisuel; archives en ligne depuis 2006) (Excellent!)
    - Les Actualités françaises
  - Pièces Radiophoniques
  - Rire et Chansons : les webradios
    - Gad Elmaleh
  - Piéces de théâtre à télécharger
  - Saga MP3
    - NETOPHONIX Sagas mp3 :: Liste des Sagas mp3
    - Donjon de Naheulbeuk (saga mp3)
  - Le Monde Diplomatique (requires N.U. account)
  - Le Figaro (requires Minuteman Library account; part of French magazines/newspapers)
  - Le Camp de Thiaroye
  - Livres audio gratuits sur internet
    - Bibliboom (livres audio gratuits à télécharger au format mp3 légalement)
    - Literature audio.com (livres audio gratuits; excellent; voir aussi Portail:Audiolivres - Wikisource)
    - Canal Académie (Magazine francophone des Académies sur Internet; podcasts)
    - Le Livre Qui Parle - moteur de recherche dédié au livre audio
    - Télérama Radio
    - Portail:Audiolivres (Wikisource)
    - Comptines et chansons pour enfants
    - archivox (audio French, including some of "les contes des mille et une nuits", qualité excellente; extraits)
    - audiocité - livres audio gratuits (classiques et plus contemporains; excellent)
    - Guy De Maupassant.fr (enregistrements soignés)
    - 01PodCast.com (avec Littérature
    - Internet Archive - French audio books
    - Boîte à Sourdines (livres audio, éclectique)
    - Librivox (livres audio gratuits en français: Dumas, Mille et une nuits, etc.) (qualité d'enregistrement moyenne)
      - Arsène Lupin gentleman-cambrioleur, par Maurice Leblanc
    - Incipit Blog (qualité d'enregistrement moyenne)
    - AudioLivres (ou ici; souvent ne marche pas si on n'est pas membre)
      - Louis Riel, Martyr du Nord-Ouest (in progress)
  - Tous les podcasts -- Politique
  - De quoi je me mail (podcast sur les actus hi-tech)
  - Podcast BFM: Les Grands Débats (alt)
    - BFM: Chine Hebdo
    - BFM: Green Business
  - GreatSong.net Musique : Paroles, Clips, Radio, Forums, Traductions
  - SF français
    - Quarante-Deux - quelques pages sur la Science-Fiction
    - Science-Fiction, fantastique, fantasy - nooSFere, toutes les spheres de l'imaginaire
      - nooSFere Babel - all spheres of the imagination (SF in all languages)
      Les Lectures de Xapur Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, Prix Jules-Verne, Prix Cosmos 2000
    - Quelques auteurs SF préférés
      - La Méthode scientifique : podcast et réécoute sur France Culture
      - Petite Histoire de la Science-Fiction Française et de l'édition de science-fiction en France de 1371 à 1981 (Jean-Pierre FONTANA ; Grande Enciclopedia della Fantascienza, Del Drago, novembre 1981)
        
        Star ou Ψ de Cassiopée (Wikipédia, de Charlemagne_Ischir_Defontenay, 1854)
        Le Pé bleu (Wikipédia, de Maurice Renard, 1911))
        Le Docteur Lerne, sous-dieu (Wikipédia, de Maurice Renard, 1908))
        
        Les Xipéhuza (J.-H. Rosny, 1888)
        J.-H. Rosny aîné (Wikisource)
      - Paul Bérato (aka Yves Dermèze et Paul Béra et Martin Slang et John Luck et André Gascogne)
        
        Bibliographie SF | Quarante-Deux/exliibris:
      - Philippe Curval
        
        Bibliographie SF | Quarante-Deux/exliibris:
        Philippe Curval : choix de nouvelles SF
      - Michel Jeury (aka Albert Higon)
        
        Bibliographie SF | Quarante-Deux/exliibris:
        Michel Jeury : intégrale des nouvelles
      - Gérard Klein (aka Gilles d'Argyre)
        
        Bibliographie SF | Quarante-Deux/exliibris:
      - Christian Léourier
        
        Bibliographie SF | Quarante-Deux/exliibris:
        LEOURIER Christian : une page non officielle
        Christian Léourier - Babelio
      - Michel Demuth
        
        Michel Demoth (quarante-deux.org)
      - René-Charles Rey (aka Jean Mazarin)
      - Autres auteurs: René Barjavel (e.g., Ravage), B.R. Bruss (surtout ses premiers œuvres; par exemple Et la Planète Sauta..., et "An...2391"), Frank Dartal, Dominique_Douay, Jacques_Barbéri, Pierre Pelot (aka Pierre Suragne),
      - SFE: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
      - French Science-Fiction / Science-Fiction Française (66 livres)
      - BD : Météor (Artime)
      - BD : Meteors (séries de 3 tomes, par Fred Duval)
      - BD : Meteors (séries de 3 tomes, par Fred Duval) English version (Europe Comics)
  - Livres français gratuits en ligne
    - Bibebook (livres gratuits)
    - La Grande Bibliothèque Numérique en ligne
    - Gallica (bibliothèque numérique)
    - BookRix (eBooks, French)
    - Ebooks libres et gratuits
    - Librairie de livres numériques - Livres pour tous
      - Libreslib.com
    - Wikisource - Accueil
      - Wikimedia - Spoken French
    - manybooks.net (plus de 1,460 livres en français)
    - Gérard Klein (préfaces et postfaces)
    - Ponson du Terrail, 1829-1871; Rocambole, forerunner of Arsène Lupin and Raffles (ebooksgratuits.com) and here (livres de Project Gutenberge)
      - Ebooks libres et gratuits (statistiques les plut populaires)
    - illivri, ebooks pour tous
    - Livres pour tous (5000 eBooks gratuits en ligne)
    - Galicia Classique (de la Bibliothèque Nationale Française)
      - Documents numerotisés en mode texte
    - Project Gutenberg texts in French
    - Athena: French Literature
    - Ebooks libres et gratuits ou alt
      - Arsène Lupin (par Maurice LeBlanc)
    - Libres pour tous (gratuits)
    - ABU (Association des Bibliophiles Universels: la Bibliothèque Universelle; French texts)
    - Littérature à emporter
    - French translations of Russian/Slavic books
  - Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
  - Resources for Learning French
  - France 2 (Journal de Télématin)
  - Athena: Textes Français
  - Encyclopédie de Diderot et D'Alembert
  - De la Terre à la Lune (Jules Verne)
  - Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS)
  - Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP)
  - Tsedek! Collectif Juif Décolonial
- Links for German Language
- Greek radio station
- Russian
  - Russian<->English<->Russian dictionary
  - Russian Film Hub (Excellent!! "hundreds of free Russian and Soviet movies with English subtitles")
    - Top 10 Soviet Films You Should Watch
    - IMDb: Best Russian Movies of All Times (a list by exclusiveshortfilms)
    - IMDb: The 3 best russian (soviet) movies of all time!!! (a list by shibzzza)
- Spanish
  - Radio Ambulante (Excellent; with sound and transcripts)
  - Máquina del Tiempo (Translates words from Latin to Spanish, while showing etymological rules)
  - Diccionario de la lengua española - Vigésima segunda edición
  - Diccionarios de elmundo.es (español, sinónimos, antónimos, inglés, francés)
  - Diccionarios.com (e.g. VOX)
  - El Castellano - Etimología
  - Wordreference.com (Spanish, German, English, French, Italian)
  - Types of Spanish Accents - Joanna RantsL
  - Spanish songs, trabalenguas, fiestas, etc.
  - Radio
    - CNN enEspañol (with RealAudio)
    - Russia Today (spanish)
    - CCTV-E En Driecto (CCTV Español)
    - teleSUR (Señal en vivo) (with audio en vivo
    - Globovision (Venezuela)
    - BBC en Español (from Clarin Digital; or BBC in spanish home page)
    - Cadena COPE (from Madrid)
    - Cadena 100 (radio from Spain)
    - Televisión peruviana en vivo (from Frecuencia Latina)
    - REE (Radio Exterieur de España, with RealAudio)
    - Canal Sur Radio (Andalucía, with RealAudio)
    - Radio Habana
  - Newspapers
    - Prensa (muchos países, y radio, etc.)
    - from Spain: El País, El Mundo, ABC, El Diario, Menéame
    - Diario LA NACION - San Jose, Costa Rica
    - The Wall Street Journal Americas
  - Proyecto Cervantes (e otros)
  - Cuentos Infantiles
  - Spanish on-line texts
  - Red Mundo Latino
    - Centro Cultural
    - Rincón Literario
    - Cristóbal Colón (sus Diarios)
  - Rincón literario de Sofía
  - soc.culture.spain
  - soc.culture.latin-america
  - soc.culture.mexican
  - soc.culture.peru
- Yiddish
  - Refoyl's Yiddish resources
  - Yiddish
  - Yiddish Pour Tous ("Yiddish for all" - search lower for "RADIO YIDDISH POUR TOUS EN DIRECT", or download the Android app)
  - Boston's Yiddish Voice on WUNR 1600 AM
  - Yidlife Crisis (award-winning web series in Yiddish)
    - Chinese Food+Christmas+Jews = Yingl Belz (YidLife Crisis S2E2)
- Entertainment
  - Library of Congress Z39.50 Gateway
    - Biblio.com ("to give local bookstores global reach")
    - The Online Books Page (excellent, with pointers to foreign books)
    - Used Book Circle (request a title, and it finds a local bookstore with the used book in 48 hours)
    - Project Gutenberg Home Page
      - Science Fiction (Bookshelf) - Gutenberg
    - Free Speculative Fiction Online
    - libcom.org (eclectice set of books and pamphlets: political and other)
    - ManyBooks.net (free eBooks)
    - Baen Free Library (current science fiction and fantasy books free from well-known and other authors)
    - Oxford Text Archive
    - Humanities Text Initiative
    - /contrabib/Torah (internal contradictions in the Bible)
    - The International Jew (reprint as book, previously published by Henry Ford in his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent (also known as The Ford International Weekly)
    - Early English Books Online
    - Earliest English Literatures
    - American Memory (on-line collections from Library of Congress)
    - Podcasts (often by investigative reporters)
      - Murderville, GA (podcast with free transcript)
      - Serial podcast (Season 3) (podcast with free transcript)
        
        Serial podcast (three seasons as of this writing; with free transcripts)
      - New Yorker Radio Hour (but no transcripts)
        
        John Thompson vs. American Justice (and the victim has a nice, humorous touch in describing the events)
      - More Perfect (Podcasts, WNYC studios, spin-off of Radiolab)
      - Trump, Inc. (but no transcripts)
    - Continental Books (sells foreign books)
    - World literature
    - Internet Book Information Center
  - Athena (including French literature and Maupassant and Science)
  - Arsène Lupin (by Maurice LeBlanc, in English)
  - Blackmask Online (many on-line books)
  - Children's books
  - Perseus (Perseus Hopper) Digital Library (emphasis on classics)
  - LacusCurtius: A Gateway to Ancient Rome (search lower down on page)
  - The Works of Flavius Josephus
  - - The Complete Works of Marlowe
  - Classic short stories
  - Internet Public Library
  - Internet Public Library (organized in Dewey decimal)
  - Schoenhof's Foreign Books
- Internet Movie Database (see also Local listings)
  - Internet Archive (free movies and classic TV for download)
    - His Girl Friday
    - The Little Shop of Horrors (original 1960 version)
    - Meet John Doe
  - Top 25 Sites to Watch Free Movies and TV Shows
  - joox.net
  - YourTvLinks (including from many countries)
  - Online TV (ForumFlicks)
  - Open Subtitles --- divx subtitles
  - SubsMax.com
  - SubtitleSeeker
  - Subscene (subtitles)
  - Cinéma français
  - RetroVision Media (free classic movies: Click on "The Show" or "The Feed")
  - Archambault -- Musique, Livres et Vidéo
  - Motion Picture Database of 40,000 movies (including current movies w/ detailed reviews and ratings) by TV Guide ( index)
  - Top 10 movies (Cinema 1)
  - New York Times movie reviews (requires free account)
- Artcyclopedia
  - Google Art Project (hi-res of famous paintings in museums)
  - WebMuseum Paris
  - Le Louvre
  - ANU Art History Top Level Menu Page
  - Krannert Art Museum
- Music Resources on the Internet
  - Pandora
  - Grooveshark.com
  - UNIX MIDI Plugin
  - Free Sheet Music Downloads (links to other free sites)
  - Classical Sheet Music WebRing (but usually not free)
  - Free Sheet Music Guide
  - Free Sheet Music on 8notes.com (also has MIDI)
  - The Sheet Music Archive
  - Naxos Realaudio archive
  - MusixTeX (music notation for TeX)
  - Music
  - musique directory
- Television (Yahoo)
  - TV Worth Watching (daily best bets from the wasteland -- no ratings of best series like the old site for "quality television" had)
  - New On Netflix (links of Netflix shows to IMDB, etc; useful since Netflix removed on-site user reviews in Aug., 2018)
  - Rose d'Or (TV entertainment awards)
  - BAFTA Television Awards (British Academy Television Awards)
  - TV news
  - Guidetele.com
  - Guide TV SFR
  - DVD Hacks -- Hack search (how to convert certain players to region free; if the box says it handles NTSC and PAL, then it's likely to be in this web page)
  - Region free DVD Players or DVD Reviewer - Multi-Region Hacks or Nerd-out.com or VideoHelp.com (several sites about converting players to region-free)
  - regional lockout (info about RPC-2 (newer) dvd drives and firmware issues; and a site with workarounds)
    - Region-free DVD viewing options for the Macintosh
  - HDCP Copy protection for data using DVI (computers) or HDMI (HD TV)
  - DVD FAQ
  - ATSC 3.0: The future of free antenna TV is coming, eventually (4K TV over the air)
  - Titan TV (Free local TV listings; TV Guide, excellent)
  - Cable TV subscriber statistics (2023)
  - FCC prediction of TV signal strength
  - TV Fool (Predict strength of over-the-air TV signals to your address; not so good)
  - Euro TV Guide
  - free international TV available over internet
    - Beeline TV
    - Channel Chooser
    - TV listings (from Tivo) (click "Full-screen"; "show more" on movies has ratings)
    - Free TV Online
    - World TV PC
    - WWI TV
  - Doctor Who - Classic Series - Episode Guide
  - Babylon 5
  - Star Trek Plot Summaries
  - Stargate Episode Guides (and transcripts)
- Internet Broadcasting
  - The Boston Radio Archives (and TV); (see Northeast Radio Watch for more recent news)
  - Radio-Locator (incl. international, but mostly Radio, not streaming audio)
  - DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting, digital radio on FM))
  - DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale, digital radio on shortwave, AM) ; (with current broadcasts)
  - Mobile DTV (mobile digital TV)
  - Collections of audio/video sources
    - LibriVox (free audiobooks)
      - online-convert (ebook to mobi for Amazon Kindle)
    - CounterSpin (from FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; with archives or alt)
      - CounterPunch
      - Alternative Radio
      - Uprising Radio
      - Michael Parenti (political blog, progressive)
      - Media Matters for America (analyzes and corrects conservative misinformation in mainstream press)
      - PolitiFact (most quoted, St. Petersburg Times)
      - FactCheck.org (Annenberg Political Fact Check; non-partisan)
        
        Fox News (by Media Matters) ("They watch Fox News so that you don't have to.")
      - News Hounds (critical review of current Fox News stories)
    - The Media Manipulation Casebook
    - Free Speech Internet TV
    - RadioTower (organized by category, or country, or language; but no combinations allowed)
    - World Radio Network (with audio on-demand)
  - BBC Radio 4 Extra (BBC radio live, or on demand)
    - BBC Radio drama (most recent first, all)
    - BBC Radio comedy (most recent first, all)
    - Murmurs (BBC Radio)
    - BBC 4 Saturday Play (on demand)
    - BBC 4 Friday Play (on demand)
    - In Our Time (BBC podcasts interviewing experts)
      - In Our Time (History)
    - BBC Radio Shows (archive.org, over 3,000 media; excellent!) (with science fiction
      - Internet Archive (BBC Radio 4)
      - Internet Archive (BBC)
      - radioarchive.cx, archive.org
      - Internet Archive (BBC, from "Ned's Dramas")
        
        Wally K. Daly (BBC Radio drama collection)
        Mr. Finchley (comedy-drama, 2009)
    - The Studs Terkel Radio Archive
    - Ethel Carnie Holdsworth - Poetry Archive (and book references; probably the first working class woman writer in English: 1907 and later)
      - Helen of Four Gates (1920 silent film, based on book of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
    - Amber Ruffin: Stories of a Lfietime of Traumatic Run-ins with Police
    - The 7th Son Trilogy (podcast by J. Hutchins)
    - Old Time Radio Downloads (Does it work?)
    - 20th Century Radio Old Time Radio Downloads (Sci Fi) (excellent)
    - Internet Archive Old Time Radio (huge selection: Gunsmoke, Bob and Ray (from archive.org), ...)
    - Evan's Sci-Fi Page (X Minus One)
      - SF68 (South African produced science fiction of famous authors; mixed quality of audio)
    - Mindwebs (excellent)
      - MINDWEBS - Michael Hanson's official tape archive
    - Relic Radio (weekly selection from other sources)
    - Echoes from the Golden Age of Radio (sci-fi) (excellent; from Hank's Old Time Radio ??)
    - Hank's Old Time Radio (Internet live radio)
    - SCI-FI OTR INTERNET STATION (streaming only, no on-demand)
    - 20th Century Radio (Old Time Radio Downloads)
    - CBS Radio Mystery Theater (all 1,399 episodes for free streaming and download)
    - OTR Network Library (excellent) (including Stan Freeberg)
    - Doctor Who (animated versions of classic TV programs)
    - Doctor Who episode guide (or another version)
    - Imagination Theater (Jim French Productions)
    - Wayback Old Time Radio
    - Zoot Radio (free old time radio downloads)
    - Science Fiction OTR
  - NPR (National Public Radio)
    (with archives for Fresh Air, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation, Living on Earth, This American Life, NPR Planet Money Podcasts)
  - Radio Open Source (with Christopher Lydon)
  - WZBC Audio Archive (Sounds of Dissent, Democracy Now, etc.; with Listen Live)
  - KQED (San Francisco) (with Listen live)
  - WGBH (with listen live)
    - Walter Presents (PBS) (Walter's Choice)
    - Moyer & Company (on TV and on-line video)
  - WBUR (with The Connection, On Point and live WBUR audio (or alt))
  - or listen on NCPR (and click on "LISTEN")
  - Living Lab Radio (on WBGH) (or here
  - PRI's The World (on WBGH)
  - News & Public Affairs
    - ProPublica (Journalism in the Public Interest)
    - The Center for Public Integrity (Stories of life in parts of America, including Abandoned in America)
    - Redistricting Litigation Roundup ( Brennan Center for Justice)
      - Supreme Court Term Limits (thorough article, including international comparisons, etc.)
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    - Fix the Court (reports on disclosures, public appearances, etc., of all supreme court judges)
    - Democracy Now news (from the Pacifica Foundation?)
      - ALEC Exposed
    - Donald Trump announces launch of trading cards (ad for collecttrumpcards.com, as of Aug. 27, 2024)
    - Letters from an American (by historian Heather Cox Richardson, with careful collection of relevant facts on top issues of each day)
    - The Dig (podcasts, transcripts and newsletters with Daniel Denvir)
    - Democracy Docket (with Marc Elias) (and Democracy Watch with BTC and Marc Elias)
    - Decoding Fox News (review of Fox News highlights from a progressive point of view)
    - Why Is This Happening (weekly podcast)
    - Christian Right Observer Weekly
    - Truthout.org, latest
    - acTVism - information that moves
    - The Real News Network
    - American Reformer (including the State; views of evangelical Christians, "focusing particularly on issues facing American Christians, we will seek to contribute to the reformation of Christian institutions that have become corrupted by false ideologies and practices ... in the face of widespread cultural capitulation")
      - Trump’s Indictment is the Indictment of Evangelicalism (opinion video (7'15") by a former American Evangelical influencer, Frank Schaeffer)
    - IBW21: Institute of the Black World 21st Century (outgrowth of 2001 Atlanta conference with 2,500 African-American scholars)
      - How a Nearly Successful Slave Revolt Was Intentionally Lost to History (Louisiana rebellion, 1811; after the Haitian revolution of 1791--1804)
        
        New Orleans slave rebellion: New Orleans, 1811 or "German Coast Rebellion", 1811
      - Nat Turner's slave rebellion (1831, Virginia)
      - History of the 1st Alabama Calvary (unionist calvary in Civil War; integrated, black and white)
      - Mary Richards Bowser (slave serving the family of Jefferson Davis in Confederate White House, while a spy for the Union)
      - Fort Pillow massacre (1864: union soldiers, divided equally among blacks and whites, were massacred after surrendering the fort)
      - Opelousas massacre (1868: one of the reasons for a large number of Radical Republicans being elected in the 1868 national election)
      - Colfax Massacre (1873; The Supreme Court ruled that the 14th amendment did not apply to individuals, and so federal prosecutions of the responsible individuals were not possible.)
      - Atlanta Race Massacre (1906)
      - Aug., 1908 -- Springfield Massacre (Illinois)
      - Houston race riot (1917)
      - Elaine Massacre of 1919 -- Encyclopedia of Arkansas
      - Ocoee Massacre (Florida, 1920)
      - Tulsa, Race Massacre (Oklahoma, 1921)
      - Osage Reign of Terror (Oklahoma, 1921-26)
        
        After the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921 (from here)
        Another photo: one of the 36 blocks (from Washington Post)
      - Rosewood Massacre (Florida, 1923)
    - Bombings of American civilians by authorities: Battle of Bair Mountain (1920); Tulsa, Race Massacre (1921)
    - Florida's State Academic Standards – Social Studies, 2023 (Grade 5, African-American history) (Interesting to search on "slave", "Africans", "Jim Crow", "voting rights"; Some of it is slanted or factually incorrect, such as "the first Africans brought to Jamestown, Virginia by the Dutch in 1619" -- In fact, it was two English privateer ("pirate") ships, the White Lion and the Treasure, which seized slaves from a Spanish ship, while flying a Dutch flag in order to provide deniability by the English. Also includes historical discussions of Sumerian slaves, Indian castes, Slavic serfs, Arabian and North African slave trade, and slaverry among "indigenous peoples of the Americas ... prior to ... European colonization"; but no mention of the history of slaves in Greece and Rome, or serfs tied to land in feudal Western Europe. Also discusses "Muslim slave markets" based on kidnapping Europeans, but no discussion of "Christian slave markets" in Florida that were based on kidnapping Muslims from Africa.)
    - U.S. Capitol Police officer gives firsthand account of Jan. 6 attack
    - Global Journalist (focus on parts of the world rarely covered in mainstream media; produced by faculty and student of Missouri School of Journalism)
    - Crooked Media
    - Reveal news (Center for Investigative Reporting)
      - Reveal: A Welfare Check (and also see "Your State on Welfare", and The Uncertain Project: e.g., one county welfare office used some of the welfare cash assistance for single mothers to create motivational work songs for those mothers)
    - ProPublica (investigative journalism) (for example, presidential cabinet-rank and other positions
    - The Intercept
    - DCReport.org ("Reporting what the president and Congress do, not what they say")
    - Les Crises
    - Radio Open Source (PRI, Chris Leyden)
    - The Laura Flanders Show
    - In These Times
    - Huffington Post Maghreb
    - Our Revolution (and Bernie Sanders In A Candid Conversation With Sarah Silverman - YouTube)
    - Justice Democrats
    - Crowd Dounting Consortium (counts size of demonstrations)
    - The Dictator's Handbook
      - The Dictator's Handbook as a free audio book
    - Alternet (Alternative News and Information)
    - Consortium News (Independent Investigative Journalism Since 1995)
    - Between The Lines
    - IPS InterPress Service (w/ Gareth Porter)
    - Free Speech Radio news
    - History Commons ("crowdsourcing investigative journalism")
    - Latifa Al Maktoum - Escape from Dubai ( princess and daughter of prime minister of UAE who was captured and returned to Dubai in February/March, 2018 Indian Ocean by Indian and Emirati ships; Her older sister, Shamsa al-Maktoum had been forced into family car in Cambridge, England, while on holiday in England in 2001)
    - Khashoggi (assassinated in Saudi consulate in Istanbul in Oct., 2018)
    - "Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs" in Business Week (and "Andy Grove: Knowledge Work Isn't Enough" in Information Week): Grove argues that as American companies (both large and startup) continue to outsource, the U.S. supply chain is being replaced by an overseas supply chain. This means that we can innovate, but we cannot scale up. Scaling up is where the jobs are. E.g., the U.S. computer manufacturing industry rose from about 150,000 in 1975 to 2 million, and back down to 166,000 in 2010. Meanwhile, Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industries) alone employs over 800,000 people. Foxconn employs 250,000 people to build Apple products, while Apple employs 25,000 people.)
  - BBC (with on-demand Realaudio and BBC Live or alt (or Radio 4 home page)
  - C-SPAN Online (with C-SPAN RealVideo and C-SPAN 2 RealVideo)
  - GSM
  - International Broadcasters
    - CBC Radio on The Internet (many stations)
    - Radio-Canada (français w/ RealAudio and RealVideo; many stations)
    - RCI (Radio Canada International)
    - China Radio International
    - Deutsche Welle
    - All India Radio
    - Radio JAPAN: Broadcasting Information
  - Boston's Yiddish Voice on WUNR 1600 AM
  - Yidlife Crisis (award-winning web series in Yiddish)
- Comics
  - skcd - a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language (with one on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN)
  - Political Cartoons, essays
  - Doonesbury -- Daily Dose
  - United Media
  - The New Yorker: daily cartoon
  - xkcd cartoon
  - The Nib (including Pia Guerra)
- news.google.com
  - Read Across the Aisle (break the filter bubble, and stop allowing software to steer you to what you read)
  - NewsBank (from NU subscription; articles from AP, some newspapers, etc.)
  - Newslink (dir of newspapers, magazines, radio, etc.) (including Foreign newspapers)
  - SkyTruth (whistleblower organization: uses remote sensing and digital mapping to estimate environmental consequences)
  - Diffuse sources of air pollution in Europe
  - New York Times
  - Bolts (in-depth political articles at local and state level)
  - The Guardian (United Kingdom)
  - People's Daily (China, CGTN)
  - FAIR (fairness and accuracy in reporting)
  - Public Report: Investigating How Money Corrupts Democracy
  - Noam Chomsky La Fabrication du Consentement partie 1 (and part 2) (based on his book, Manufacturing Consent)
  - List of world news channels
    - Global Post (World News)
    - Inter Press Service (international news)
    - International broadcast networks
      - Global Policy Watch ("Key Public Policy Developments Around the World")
      - BBC World Service
      - Voice of America
      - PTV World (Pakistan)
      - WION Live TV (India)
      - CNN International
      - France 24
        
        France 24 en direct ou alt
        France 24 (SELECT: direct/live, dernier, économique, météo) (doesn't work on some Linuxes, such as Debian 5 (Lenny))
        France 24 (live, french)
        France 24 (live, english)
      - CCTV News Live
        
        CCTV America (from China)
      - RT (formerly Russia Today) (Microsoft Windows Media only; not available for Linux?)
      - TeleSur (TV supported by Venezuela)
      - Press TV (Iranian international news network)
      - TRT World (TRT - Turkish)
      - I24 News (Israel) (TRT - Turkish)
      - Deutsche Welle
      - Press TV (alt)
    - Al Jazeera (English)
      - Al Jazeera - Live (English)
      - Al Jazeera live audio stream
      - Al Jazeera English's Channel (via youtube, live feed in middle of page)
      - "Inside USA" (from Al Jazeera)
    - WRN (World Radio Network) schedules (stations, and podcasts)
      - Global Community Radio: GCR
    - International Middle East Media Center (with "This Week in Palestine")
  - local news
    - Boston Globe
    - Boston Phoenix (excellent for local events, but movie showings often seem to be incorrect as of 8/06)
    - New England Cable News
    - Middlesex News (good regional info)
  - Information Clearing House (w/ search of archives)
  - Extra! magazine (FAIR) archives
- Local Information (Boston area; Main link is "Yahoo Get Local": integrated source of information; see also local news and events movie reviews, TV, etc.)
  - White Pages (phone number lookup, and reverse phone lookup)
  - Free Reverse Phone Lookup
  - Boston Gas Prices
    - Map of gas prices in western suburbs
  - Zhang Yi Yuan Chinese tea (and Yami food online; Japanese, but also Chinese/East Asia products)
  - Speakeasy Speed Test (for broadband to Internet)
  - Official City of Boston
  - Boston Online
  - Greater Boston Convention and Visitors' Bureau info (w/ accommodations)
  - Russian Bazaar restaurant
  - Home prices (zillow.com, recently sold homes)
  - SmarTraveler - Boston area traffic (also MBTA delays)
  - MIT parking facilities
  - Parking lots (prices and hours) (e.g., click on search icon, and type destination address)
  - MBTA (Boston mass transportation) (with weekday outbound schedule for Framingham/Worcester and Inbound)
  - Logan Airport Satellite Parking (or shuttle)
    - Preflight Airport Parking (Logan) (was Logan Park & Go)
    - Park Shuttle & Fly
    - Logan airport vans (none currently existing, only high-priced limo companies??)
    - Back Bay Coach (airport shuttle)
    - Veterans Taxi (617) 527-0300 (for western suburbs; prefer 3 hours notice to reserve a taxi)
    - Warning: Knight's Airport Limousine -- means higher limousine prices, not shuttle prices, $110 minimum for one-way trip as of April, 2009
    - Warning: Zebra Airport Shuttle -- higher priced direct service, not shuttle prices
  - Discount Airlines
    - Airline Customer Service Dashboard (from U.S. DOT)
    - Cheap Fares Online
    - NOTE: Expedia, Orbitz, and many others often don't list these airlines. Kayak lists it among available airlines, but doesn't show fares for it.
      EXAMPLE:Southwest Airlines offers direct flights from Boston to Columbus, Ohio. Most airlines don't offer that.
    - Southwest Airlines (via Providence, Manchester, N.H., Boston), JetBlue, America West, Airtran Airways ;
    - In Europe: jetcost.com (cheap flights, hotels, car rentals) Transavia (from Amsterdam), RyanAir (from London), Brussels Airlines (from Brussels) Virgin Express (from Brussels), Sterling (from Denmark) Easy Jet (London, Edinburgh, Milan, Geneva, Bordeaux) Baboo Airlines (Geneva) clickair (Spanish web site with cheap European flights) CheapFlights.co.uk
  - World Airline Rating (w/ customer reviews)
  - Flight on-time status
  - Flightaware (status and average of last 7 days)
  - Wireless passwords from airports
  - Swissport (call them about shipping personal effects (web site meant for corporations); cheaper because you take it through airport customs, and somebody at destination takes it through customs at their end; recommended to us by a Delta Airlines agent, but phone book or web>Swissport>cargo>country should get you their phone number)
  - Train, bus and plane in Europe
    - Rome2rio: discover how to get anywhere (Excellent!)
    - Busradar
    - Goeuro
    - Comparabus
  - Chinatown bus lines for East Coast
    - New York / Boston Chinatown Bus Info (and forum?)
    - BoltBus (new division of Greyhound with economy tickets as of 4/08, free WiFi on bus)
    - Fung Wah (e-tickets: $15; hourly buses between 139 Canal St/NY and Gate 25, South Stn. Bus Terminal, 700 Atlantic Ave., Boston)
    - Lucky Star (e-tickets: $15; on-board bathroom; hourly buses between corner of Chrystie St and Hester St/NY and Gate 13, South Stn. Bus Terminal, 700 Atlantic Ave., Boston)
    - Sunshine Travel ($15)
    - GotoBus
    - Megabus.com (South Station to Madison Square Garden)
    - Go Buses (from NYC to Newton and back)
    - Megabus Bus (from NYC to Boston (used to be Newton, too?))
    - Worldwide Bus (from Newton/Cambridge to New York City)
    - Limoliner ($80 one-way, fares subject to change; large seats, internet access, and maybe meal and movie)
  - Official Time
  - Weather
    - Weather Underground (with Boston weather and local radar and animation and hurricanes))
    - ECMWF tropical cyclone charts (select "Cyclone name" on left sidebar; from ECMWF tropical cyclone charts for other products)
    - Boston weather and climate (National weather service: historical temperature, snowfall, etc.)
    - National Weather Service: Boston west suburbs, local radar, and forecast discussion,
    - Weather map
    - UM Weather
    - FAQ Hurricanes, Typhoons and Tropical Cyclones
    - Past Hurricanes (and HURDAT Hurricane re-analysis since 1851)
    - Climate Change (Weather Underground - popular exposition -- excellent!)
  - WeedAlert.com (good descriptions/pictures of weeds and treatment)
    - U. Cal. identification of turf grass species
    - UMass Extension Turf Program: Selection of Grasses (or alt
    - Turfgrass Identification (Purdue U.)
    - Terminology of parts of grass
    - Seeding Fescue grass
    - Tall Fescue guide
    - (BioAdvanced) Bayer Bermudagrass Killer
    - organic lawn care
    - Lawn care (by Toro)
    - Routine Soil Analysis (pH, etc., Massachusetts)
      - Soil and Tissue Testing Lab (UMass Amherst)
    - Grass types
    - More grass types (Netherlands)
  - Boston Maps
    - Connections to the Upper Falls Greenway (from Needham Street, go to Sierra parking lot (Newton Nexus shopping ctr) and can go to Greenway; cross it and go to Columbia Ave, for Elliot St, and it will connect with Eliot Station (but Margraret Rd is a shortcut); Jiffy Lube/Michaels beyond Sount Meadow Brook as alternative to Sierra)
    - Christina Street Rail Bridge across Charles River (connects to Upper Falls Greenway; Newton has received federal earmark on Oct. 6, 2023)
  - Boston Phoenix Movie Reviews
    - Metacritic
    - Movie listings
    - Movie listings (alt)
    - Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Free Shakespeare on the Common)
    - Cinema listings by theater and title (Google)
    - Cinema listings by theater and title (Boston Movie Times)
      - Dedham Community Theater listings (with slow-loading, annoying animations) (alt)
      - Framingham 16 listings
      - AMC Chestnut Hill 5
      - West Newton Cinema listings (also shows foreign films) (alt)
      - Waltham Landmark Embassy Cinema listings
      - Mendon Drive-in (Boston area)
    - BosTix (half-price tickets) and Arts/Boston
  - Boston's Hidden Restaurants
    - City of Waltham Restaurant Guide
    - Boston Restaurants (yelp.com)
      - Waltham restaurants
    - Man-O-Salway Kabob & Grill (Somerville, inside a supermarket)
    - Fiorella's, Newton
    - Village Fish, Needham's
    - DiningInMass
      - DiningInMass (Waltham)
    - Sichuan Gourmet (Lao Sichuan; Framingham and Billerica)
    - Chung Shin Yuan (Nonantum, Taiwan-style dim sum for Sunday brunch)
    - Dosa Temple,
  - Foreign telephone directories
    - France Telecomm
    - Deutsche Telekomm
    - Guías ... (Spain, yellow pages only)
  - Travel reference for other countries
    - Wikivoyage (excellent!, wikimedia, non-profit, fork of wikitravel/English in 2012)
      - Wikivoyage: What is the difference between Wikivoyage and Wikitravel?
    - Wikitravel (excellent!, run by "Internet Brands")
    - iGuide Travel (interactive map with descriptions of out-of-the-way places)
    - G.A.P. Adventures (lower cost tours -- find own restaurants, meet local people)
    - SmartPhrase.com (online phrase books, primarily for European languages)
    - City Map Sites around the world
    - Subway/commuter train maps around the world (urbanRail.html)
    - World Airport Guide
    - Excess Baggage Shipping (international)
    - The Weather Network -- International Cities
    - Currency Converter exchange rates (UnitConverter.net) (or Alt)
    - AC power plugs and sockets (Wikipedia)
    - AmeriCom Country and Area Codes (excellent) (also describes competitive long distance rates)
    - ACR International Calling Codes
    - Prepaid mobile phones (France)
      - Lebara (free SIM chip; allows free incoming???)
      - Virgin Mobile (apparently allows SAV service (free incoming calls??) for 12 months)
    - Rome2rio (how to get anywhere to anywhere via plane, train, bus, taxi, etc.)
    - Booking on SNCF (excellent summary of options for French trains)
      - Rechercher une gare (full train schedules for station)
      - Gares en Mouvement (site officiel du SNCF ??)
      - Infolignes (on-time information, useful for strikes too)
    - Commentcamarche.net (products with specs)
    - Time zones, national holidays, etc. for countries
    - Local times around the world
    - TransferWise (single bank account w/ SWIFT/IBAN and US ABA routing; exchange money internal to account)
      - TranserWise review (finder.com)
    - Currency Exchange International (Copley Place, Boston; web site has coupon for 50% off for exchange fee)
    - XE Trade (converts currency without the typical 3% exchange fee by other methods)
    - Best No Foreign Transaction Fee Credit Cards
    - N26 vs. Revolut (no-fee Internet bank accounts w/ credit cards, for multiple currencies)
    - Hotels
      - Cheaper hotels in Boston (tested in Dec./Jan., 2017)
        
        Found Hotel Boston Common, 78 Charles Street South
        Boston Common Hotel & Conference Center
      - Prontohotel.com (meta-search engine)
      - Hotwire
      - Priceline
      - Kayak
      - hotels.com (reasonably priced hotels)
      - Allstays.com (hotels near interstate exits; click on a state first)
      - EuroCheapo (includes 2-star hotels, etc.)
      - Try 1-800-fly-europe search on this page or TripAdvisor.com (consolidates other web sites)
      - 1-800-hotels.com (1.800.853.9054 USA --- but be careful: They add on 15% "Tax Recovery Charges & Service Fee" on credit card page itself, not before)
      - Reasonably priced hotels in Japan
      - Geneva Hotels
        
        Holiday Inn Express, Geneva
      - Genoa and region (refuses to display, unless you have the latest FlashPlayer installed)
    - Taxi fare finder
- Investment and tax information
  - IRS Tax forms
    - U.S. Foreign Per Diem Rates (or alt)
  - Companies Online (locates URL, given various info about company)
  - Federal Express (can now print airbill on personal printer, x2135 for details at N.U.)
  - Better Business Bureau on-line
  - 1-800-free-411 (free directory assistance in U.S., in exchange for listening to an ad)
    - 1-800-411-metro (live operator then connects you) and 1-800-411-save (live operator gives you number)
    - 1-800-flights (on-time flight info., gates, etc.: by web, or by calling on phone)
  - Compare Prepaid-Cell-Phones (excellent)
  - Prepaid cell phone reviews (or this web page)
  - Specs and reviews of cell phones
  - 10-10 phone rates
  - Prepaid phone cards (can be bought over Internet)
  - SaveOnPhone.com (comparison, phone plans)
  - MyRatePlan.com
  - Cellmania (somewhat limited?)
  - Cell phone rentals (including short-term)
  - call France cheaply
  - Central Telecom (phone cards inside France)
  - Store flyers and coupons (or alt)
  - Mortgage Rates
  - Dismal Scientist (economic analysis and data)
  - The Baseline Scenario blog (with Simon Johnson, formerly (Economic Counsellor -- chief economist) of IMF, and others)
  - Paul Krugman blog (by 2008 Nobel laureate in economics)
  - Jared Bernstein blog
  - Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
    - If Government Can Print Money, Why Does It Borrow> (L. Randall Wray)
  - The Economist
  - Current Economic Data
  - BBC Global Business and BBC Business Report (Realaudio)
  - Marketplace/RealAudio
  - Yahoo financial pages (and quotes)
  - Nasdaq (quotes and data for Nasdaq, NYSE, AMEX)
  - Hoover's
  - Morningstar.com
  - Thomson I-Watch (institutional selling/buying)
  - SchaeffersResearch, options
  - Clearstation (tech. anal.)
  - Silicon Investor
  - FINWeb Home Page
  - SEC EDGAR Database (and search or Free Edgar)
  - Virtual International Business and Economic Sources
  - Economics resources
  - CompaniesOnline
  - Fortune 500 (w/ customizable search; but lots of cookies, can crash browser)
  - Forbes 400 richest American
  - Democracy at Work
  - Richard D. Wolff
    - Online Lecture Series (youtube playlist)
    - Richard Wolff: "Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism" | Talks at Google (youtube,
    - Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian (The MIT Press) by Richard D. Wolff and Stephen A. Resnick
    - Democracy at Work (youtube channel)
    - Economic Update (with Richard Wolff)
  - Michael Hudson (economist; and Michael Hudson, Wikipedia)
    - BOOK: J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception (with videos)
    - From Junk Economics to a False View of History: Where Western Civilization Took a Wrong Turn
    - ...and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year (Tyranny of Debt)
    - Temples of Enterprise: Creating Economic Order in the Bronze Age Near East
    - The Collapse of Antiquity
    - The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism
    - Michael Hudson: Debt, Economic Collapse, and the End of Civilization (and a related transcript, Reshaping Christianity and the Modern State: A Journey from Usury to Fiscal Power)
    - Debt, Empires, and Oligarchs - Dr. Michael Hudson (Part 1/2) (DemystifySci Podcast; with transcript)
  - Employee Ownership of Corporations:
    - What is an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan)? (United States)
    - Nokia Employee Stock Purchase Plan
    - Mondragón
    - Codeterminiatoin in German
    - Huawei: Who Really Owns Huawei? A response to Professors Balding and Clarke (Zichen Wang) and Huawei's Employee Shareholding Scheme: Who Owns Huawei? (Toshio Goto)
- Health
- Reference (My Virtual Reference Desk)
  (also see travel, international travel and see Local info for maps, yellow pages, phone books, etc.)
  - Yahoo reference
  - Infoplease.com almanac, atlas, timelines, etc.
  - Encyclopedia Brittanica Online (available from Northeastern University only)
  - Encyclopedia Brittanica from 1911 (free access)
  - Catalogue of life (common names and scientific names of species in many languages)
  - Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia
  - Compton's Encyclopedia
  - Concise (abridged) Encarta Encyclopedia
  - Encyclopedia.com from Electric Library (from Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, abridged form is free)
  - InfoTrac (NU/MLIN only)
  - PC Webopaedia home page (Concise PC Encyclopedia with excellent links for PC technology)
  - Information Please (almanac)
  - Merriam-Webster Dictionary
  - American Heritage Dictionary (with excellent articles on language, lots of cookies, pop-up windows)
  - ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus search form
  - Queequeg (a tiny English grammar checker; recognizes text. LaTeX, and HTML)
  - Bartlett's Quotations
  - quoteland.com
  - Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
  - Zip codes, Zip+4 addresses (U.S. Post Office)
  - Package tracking (FedEx)
  - Package tracking (UPS)
  - 555-1212.com's Fast Area Code Look-Up
  - Telephone Country Codes (and City codes) (or alt)
  - NTC U.S. Phone Number Lookup (given number, displays town)
  - White pages/e-mail finder
    - Switchboard Find people, businesses, etc.
    - Netfind servers
  - collegeboard.com (practice SAT tests, etc.)
  - Average SAT scores for Colleges
  - Top 500 Ranked Universities for Highest SAT 75th Percentile Scores
  - U.S. University Directory - Top Universities (detailed statistics on 500 universities)
  - Ranking of Research Universities (by The Center)
  - Princeton review (of Colleges)
  - College Scorecard (for American universities, with tuition costs and income results, from federal Dept. of Education)
  - Free College: Here to Stay? (analysis of 6 "Promise" programs for free tuition for community colleges in six southern states)
  - Community college in the U.S.: search on 2010s: the Great Recession and austerity (partial early history of free community college, up to 2015)
  - Net Price Calculator Information Center (online estimate of university tuition cost after scholarshps)
  - Northeastern University/Outcomes/Load debt (and similar information for other universities)
  - U.S. News & World Report rankings
    - Select College tab at top, "U.S. News Ranking" item, and then search on "Rankings"(Click on "Grad School" tab instead of "College" to see various grad school departments).
    - Northeastern Grad School Department Rankings
      - Northeastern University grad schools
    - US News & World Report rankings (alphabetically)
    - US News & World Report rankings methodology (Wikipedia)
  - The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning: Northeastern University
  - Washington Monthly College Guide (different type of ranking, looking for objective statistics)
  - Best Arab Universities for Computer Science (U.S. News & World Report rankings)
  - QS Top Universities: Rankings Lists (Enter subject, C.S., and then enter region (e.g., Asia))
  - Center for World University Rankings (quanitative formula)
  - World University Ranking (Times of London)
  - coursera.org Coursera (company with consortium of universities offering distance learning courses)
  - 2u.com (company with consortium of universities offering distance learning for credit during a semester when university-registered students won't be in residence)
  - David Szatmary (U. of Washington "Educational Outreach")
  - History of the Bankruptcy Discharge for Student Loans (read lower down for changes and years)
    - Higher Education Amendments of 1998 (P.L. 105-244): Student loans can no longer be discharged in bankruptcy after 7 years in repayment
    - BAPCA law (2005): student loans generally cannot be discharged through bankruptcy
    - Trump administration seeks comment on student loan bankruptcy standards
  - Higher education: On the lookout for true grit (article from Nature: an experiment at Fixk in which 80% of minorities completing a B.S. went on to doctoral studies)
  - A test that fails (De-emphasizing the GRE for PhD admissions allows more well-qualified women and minorities to enter.)
  - Independent 529 Plan (prepaid tuition)
  - Universities around the world
  - Excite Home (travel and other)
  - Consumer World
    - ReviewMeta.com (analyzes millions of reviews and helps you decide which ones to trust)
    - TrueDelta (Car Reliability, Prices, Gas Mileage)
    - Consumer Guide new car search
    - U.S. Consumer Information Center (Pueblo, CO)
    - Office of Consumer Affairs (Mass.)
    - YouMail (Look up and report nuisance and spam phone numbers)
    - Consumer Guide (GTE)
    - Kelley Blue Book guide
    - Edmunds Automobile Buyer's Guides
    - Product Review Net
  - IWR (Internet Weather Report) (and another by ISP)
Other fun stuff:
- Lifelong Kindergarten -- MIT Media Lab
  - Scratch overview
  - Getting Started with Scratch
  - Scratch editor (requires Adobe Flash)
  - Scratch Wiki Home
- Do It Yourself Home Improvement
- Powers of Ten (like the classic film)
- ArcadePod.Com: 500+ Free Online Java games
- A Game
- Books from the development of "Public Relations"
  - Gustave Le Bon, "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind"
  - Edward Bernays, "Propaganda% (1928) ; Public Relations (1945) ; The Engineering of Consent (1955)
- Index Librorum Liberorum (no way to categorize this, but it's really fascinating) (incl. French)
- Exploratorium (San Francisco)

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