Keep-the-mother-therein-list

Still looking for nerdy or feel-good indoor activities? We made a list for you. Additions are welcome in the comments!

For children & adults:

• With screen:
  
• For Netflix viewers, The Magic School Bus and The Magic School Bus Rides Again are fine and nerdy animated series where each episode revolves around a different STEM theme. And it looks like the Frizzle sisters have come to shop with us, too.
  
  
• Nostalgia: Once upon a time ... life can be viewed on YouTube or Netflix.
  
• Want to explain to your kids why they should wash their hands? This Karrewiet video will help you do so. If you want a song you can use during hand washing, check out Captain Winokio and Bec Hill. Captain Winokio also has a full page dedicated to First Aid for Quarantine.
  
  
• The YouTube channel of inventor Simone Giertz also features countless fun videos, from a wake-up machine to a portable mattress to a Truckla that we secretly prefer to the Tesla Cybertruck anyway.
  
  
• You can also take a look at De Koterij by creator/comedian Henk Rijckaert via his YouTube channel. Especially for the lockdown there is also a nice collaboration with his daughter: #blijfinuwkoterij and his theatre show MAKER is online in its entirety.
  
  
• The Physics Girl YouTube channel has a video with 20 experiments that (if you are very motivated and well prepared) you can do in 5 minutes.
  
  
• Technopolis gives you ideas for a LockdownLab: fun experiments you can do in your own kitchen.
  
  
• Without screen:
• Illustrator Elise Gravel's website has some fun coloring pages, some also in a virus theme.

• If you have a garden: make an inventory of the plants and itch animals you find.

• Puzzle race: throw the pieces of different puzzles (1 per participant) into a box, mix them all together and have each participant make their own puzzle.

• Books for teens:
• Journey to the Stars (Angelique van Ombergen & Stijn Ilsen)
• In my head (Angelique van Ombergen)
• Some girls don't like pink (Chrostin)

• Books for children:
• Ada Dapper, Scientist (Andrea Beatty)
• Roza Rozeur, Engineer (Andrea Beatty)
• Since most libraries are closed, you can watch astronauts read from space (in English) on the Story Time from Space channel.
• The Sound House website now includes a number of free audiobooks, several coloring pages and games.
• The Sound House has also started a podcast for children ages 8 and up: Science.

For adults:

• Podcasts: we love them and there is nothing better to cheer up housework, miserable traffic jams or cycling in bad weather. You can find them on Soundcloud, Spotify or in your podcast app like Podcast Addict.
• Nerdland: a monthly overview of science and technology news by Lieven Scheire, Hetty Helsmoortel, Jeroen Baert, Stephanie Dehennin, Peter Berx, Nathalie Kerkhofs, Els Aerts, Kurt Beheydt, Bart Van Peer and Marian Verhelst, among others. And they also made a nerdy list of occupational therapy.
  
  
• No such thing as a fish: podcast from the QI-elves who also figure out all the facts for the BBC quiz QI.
  
  
• The Guilty Feminist: A comedy podcast by Deborah Frances White on various political, environmental, scientific topics. Although scientific topics are in the minority, there is an episode on women in STEM, among others, and a crossover episode with No Such Thing as a Fish, renamed No Such Thing as a Guilty Feminist.
  
  
• Ologies: a pocast by Alie Ward with the motto "ask smart people stupid questions." Featuring experts from various -ology fields, from acarology to zymology.
  
  
• The Infinite Monkey Cage: funny science podcast with Brian Cox and Robin Ince.
  
  
• Radio:
• Listen from Monday to Friday from 9h to 12h to We will continue on Radio 1 with Sofie Lemaire and Vincent Byloo to also pick up the beautiful and solidary side of this corona crisis.
• TV:
• In More woman on the street the same Sofie Lemaire ensures that impressive but often forgotten women are also given street names.

• Books:
• Why everyone is always right (Ruben Mensch): beware, it will make you milder toward your dissenting fellow man ;-)
  
  
• All books from the BBC quiz QI, such as 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off
  
  
• Cut genes (Hetty Helsmoortel)
  
  
• DNA (Lieven Scheire)
  
  

We will be adding to this list in the coming weeks. If you have any ideas of your own, write them below in the comments.

Please see each other and take good care of yourself and each other! ❤️

And wash your hands!

(Okay, maybe a little more thorough than this, with soap and such, and between the fingers, and don't forget the thumbs and nails!)