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Geophysicist, working on CCUS projects.
[1] Amitav Ghosh. Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories, 2024. 416 pp. ISBN 978-0374602925

#history
January 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Ze steken hier gewoon het vuurwerk af bij de weilanden met 🐴 , 🦌 en 🦙
December 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
[4] Paul van 't Veer: De Atjeh-oorlog. De Arbeiderspers, 1969, ISBN 9789062879458.
[5] Vickers, Adrian (2005). A History of Modern Indonesia. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 10–13, ISBN 0-521-54262-6.
[6] objects.library.uu.nl/reader/1874-...
[7] nos.nl/artikel/2507...
December 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Rather than showing the sculpture we show the sculpture. Thus we celebrate the famous, instead of the infamous.
[1] Amitav Ghosh. Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories, 2024. 416 pp. ISBN 978-0374602925
[2] www.economist.com/finance-and-...
[3] archive.org/details/janp...
December 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Removal of the controversial statue is part of an ongoing discussion in Hoorn [7]. The resurgence of Nationalist sentiment in the Netherlands and ill-informed glorification of the VOC past does not offer much hope for a quick decision to come clean with the colonial past.
December 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The sculptor of this statue, Ferdinand Leenhoff the brother-in-law of Édouard Manet, faces the viewer in the painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe. A 1943 study made during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands concluded that Coen was just meting out justice following 17th century practice [6].
December 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
7 years later this resulted in the Banda genocide [3].
In 1893, during the heyday of Nationalism, a statue of Coen was erected in his birthplace Hoorn. At the time the Dutch were waging a war to occupy the Sultanate of Aceh. A war that lasted decades and with 100,000 or more casualties.[4,5]
December 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Out of context this words are easily misinterpreted as a general reflection on global trade. However, in a letter to the VOC's Lords Seventeen he requested money and military resources to set up a monopoly in clove trade by preventing the local Banda inhabitants to trade with the English.
December 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
7 years later this resulted in the Banda genocide.3
In 1893, during the heyday of Nationalism, a statue of Coen was erected in his birthplace Hoorn. At the time the Dutch were waging a war to occupy the Sultanate of Aceh. A war that lasted several decades, with 100,000 or more casualties[4,5]
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December 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Out of context this words are easily misinterpreted as a general reflection on global trade. However, in a letter to the VOC's Lords Seventeen he requested money and military resources to set up a monopoly in clove trade by preventing the local Banda inhabitants to trade with the English.

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December 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
December 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Isn’t the “I drink beer, so vote for me” act going a bit stale?
December 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If we stop eating meat we will have to kill millions of chicken, cows and pigs and other farm animals. Oh and those poor x-mas Turkeys too!
December 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Yes raw data is essential! I guess the bars are better than lines graphs..
December 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Dat ook, maar in dit geval beter te duiden als “imperialisme”. Net als ik vind dat iemand die je een nazi noemt de uitvlucht geeft dat hij niet aan een gaskraan draait en “cultuur-christen” eigenlijk een “neo-nationalist” is.
December 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Most charts leave out the local climate average or the expected warming trend. Last year this led the Dutch MetOffice to declare it a ‘slightly above average year’ whereas it was below the warming trend whilst globally the world was ‘positively cooking’. This nuance gets lost in the dumbing down…
December 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Ah that explains it 🙂
December 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I am disappointed in the MetOffice: averages should be displayed as dots with expected and confidence levels. A bit like in this plot:
December 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Wanneer gaat de Volkskrant aankaarten dat de CV van de verantwoordelijke staatssecretaris geen enkele aanknopingspunt oplevert voor relevante expertise? Wel rattenvanger en ‘contra-expertise mijnbouw schade’ zonder enige bouw- of constructie expertise.
December 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
You’re right. The point was that the rock that was dumped was the waste from the mine that contained quite a lot of the host rock without proper checks on what it contained..
December 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
😂
December 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You may laugh now, but it is a distinct possibility. The Dutch minister responsible for IT starts his CV with his job as rat-catcher and that seems to be his only expertise on the full list…
December 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM