What Do We Say to Coronavirus? "Not Today."
To say that the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted life around the globe is to make a breathtaking understatement. Entire nations are being quarantined, either voluntarily or otherwise, in an effort to slow the spread of infection. It's undeniably scary.
For those of us who are working from home or are otherwise restricting our movements, there is also the challenge of what to DO in the course of social distancing. While it's particularly important for those with children who are now home from school, all of us could probably do with a guide on how to keep your head and your heart as we wait for the crisis to pass. That's what this article is for.
Over the past few days, an army of social media volunteers has submitted various links and resources for how to keep yourself occupied during the newly available downtime. I've collected many of the best ones, along with a few additions of my own, in order to provide a somewhat comprehensive list of resources. Most of the inclusions are free, but the few that aren't are worth their price tags, I promise. We're all in this together, so please feel free to add any new ones in the comments and I'll do my best to incorporate them into the list.
P.S. The pictures are here to break up the scenery and act as a calming backdrop, but are otherwise not really related to the list. I hope you enjoy them anyway.

EDUCATIONAL STUFF
General Education
- Khan Academy
- TED
- Open CourseWare
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- MIT Open CourseWare
- Yale
- University of Michigan
- Carnegie Mellon
- The Open Education Consortium
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- CreativeLive
Coding/Programming

E-Books
- Project Gutenberg
- Planet eBook
- Libby (library card required)
- SimplyE (for those in NYC, NYPL library card required)
- Uncensored Library (requires Minecraft)
- The Open Book Project
- LibriVox (audiobooks)
Cooking
- “Kitchen Quarantine” Cooking Classes by Massimo Bottura
- "Quar Eye: Cooking Lessons in Quarantine" by Antoni Porowski
- Cuisinart Culinary School
- Gordon Ramsay’s "Ultimate Cookery Course"
- Bruno Albouze’s “The Real Deal Cooking Channel”
- Binging with Babish
- For Children: Messy Hands - Kids Cooking

Children's Entertainment
Homework Resources
For Small Children
- Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
- PBS Kids
- Sesame Street
- DuckDuckMoose (sister site to Khan Academy, but for small children)
- Mouse Circus (Neil Gaiman project)
For Bigger Children
- MetKids (via Metropolitan Museum of Art, probably best for kids under 10)
- Science Friday
- Neil Gaiman's Cool Stuff
For All Ages: Scratch (introductory programming language developed by MIT; SUPER fun)

TOURS
Museums
The Smithsonian (via Google)
- The National Zoo
- The National Portrait Gallery
- The National Museum of Asian Art
- The American Art Museum
- The Museum of Natural History
- The National Air and Space Museum
Art Museums
- The London National Gallery
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The National Gallery of Art
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- The Detroit Institute of Arts
- The High Museum of Art
The American Museum of Natural History (NYC)
The Hermitage Museum, Russia

Disney (POV Videos of Park Rides)
GAMES AND MOVIES

Will Carius
is the founder of Berceuse Parfum and a lifelong lover of all things scented.