Research Guides: Stressbusters: Cooking, classic cartoons & movies, e-reading & kid stuff

Cooking

NY Times cooking channel
All the food that’s fit to eat from the NY Times.
Binging with Babish
Recreates iconic and obscure foods from movies and TV shows
Everyday Food
From the Martha Stewart Test Kitchen, Sarah Carey brings simple recipes for the everyday. New recipe videos on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Tasty
This division of BuzzFeed produces content related to comfort food
PBS Food
PBS Food celebrates food and cooking and shares stories behind its favorite recipes

Bugs Bunny cartoons
From the Internet Archive
More Bugs Bunny
More cartoons & cartoon collections
From the Internet Archive
Classic comedy films
Collection of 292 films from the Internet Archive. Includes Charlie Chaplin, the Three Stooges, His Girl Friday & Disorder in the Court.
Classic Sci-Fi and horror films
Monsters and aliens, space and time travel, experiments gone wrong, and unimagined disasters from the Internet Archive
Documentaries
A collection of documentaries spanning a number of genres from Documentary Heaven
Classic arcade games
Emulated arcade games from the Internet Archive. No plugins necessary. Games can played using your keyboard; no gamepad or joysticks are needed.
Open Source psychometrics personality quiz
This popular personality quiz determines how similar you are to fictional characters

Digital Public Library of America
Discover over 37 million texts, videos, and other media, and collection highlights from libraries and archives across the U.S.
Emergency library
This Internet Archive library offers free borrowing, but account sign-up required
Getty Publications Virtual Library
View over 300 books on different art topics.
New York Public Library
View nearly 900,000 digitized manuscripts, photos, illustrations, and more.
Open Library
Open Library is an online library which loans e-books to all users in epub or PDF formats. It contains newer books as well as classics. Library cards and book borrowing is free.
Project Gutenberg
Database of thousands of books published before 1929, downloadable for free in multiple formats.
Yolo County Library
Yolo County Library offers eBooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines. Some offerings require registration for a library card.

Storyline Online
For kids or the young at heart! Video streams of actors reading children’s books aloud, accompanied by creatively produced illustrations.
Audible kids
Free audio streams of children's books
Zoos, aquariums & animal cams
If you've been missing the zoo or need some puppy or kitten time, check out these live web cams.