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Yale’s “The Science of Well-Being” course for free online Yale has released their online course “The Science of Well-Being” for free via Coursera, and with over 23 million views and counting, it may be a great way to spend some time while you are in quarantine. From Coursera, “In this course you will engage in

O, Miami Poetry Festival Need some poetry in your life, but stuck in quarantine? This year’s O, Miami’s month long poetry festival will be digital! From O, Miami: “To produce anything that would increase the risk to your health this April would be counter to our mission. So instead, we’re going online. This April, O, Miami

Underwater Manatee Cam at Blue Spring State Park Explore Oceans on Youtube have an underwater manatee cam at Blue Spring State Park. From Explore: The camera shows the mid spring run at Blue Spring State Park, where manatees congregate during the winter months when the river temperature in the adjacent St. John’s River drops below

Tardigrades livestream! Twitch user @atinyworld did a livestream of tardigrades! Wikipedia says “Tardigrades, known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of water-dwelling eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them little water bears. In 1777, the Italian biologist Lazzaro

The Nature Conservancy’s Nature Lab Nature is the fantastic factory that makes the building blocks of all our lives—food, drinking water, the stuff we own, and the air we breathe. That’s why The Nature Conservancy and its 550 scientists have created Nature Lab: to help students learn the science behind how nature works for us