personwhoesrandom123 I agree, I heard CTP Grey too. That said, I think it'd be super cool to have like a UA-cam celebrity version of Ask Emily. I hear a certain former waiter is in that neck of the woods. :-)
Yup, down below this thread she clarified with this "thebrainscoop14 minutes I was aware of the general concept, but only in passing - it took reading through a few papers before I understood the role imaginal cells play in restructuring, and understanding imaginal cells in the first place blew my mind. I love questions like that one asked by CGP Grey because they inspire me to think more deeply about a particular act of nature I had previously taken for granted, and motivated me to better comprehend the process. " CGP is it :D
Emily, the work you are doing for the visibility of science and the importance of museums is incredible. Thank you so much! Keep up the awesomeness that is you!
I love your presentation, Emily. Your delivery is witty, well-paced, down-to-earth and entertaining. Thanks for being one of the voices of modern science. The world is a better place because of what you and your peers do.
Did she say CGPGrey was the one who asked her about the caterpillar metamorphosis? I love it when one of my favorite UA-cam personalities is a fan of another one of my favorite UA-cam personalities!!
I loved both the butterfly memories and the discussion of deep sea funding challenges. On the latter, exploring our world, as is done by the scientific fellows at the Field is still more solitary than is used in the approach to space exploration. Thank you as always!
Omg. Love how excitable and energetic you are! You really seem to love your job. Almost makes me want to drop everything and skin animals for a living like you. Maybe in the next life :P Anyway thanks for an awesome show as usual.
I got really lucky to go to the Field museum over New Years, which is awesome cuz i live in Boston and first time in Chicago!... I went looking for all the exhibits you mention in these videos, even got to touch the meteorites ... I might have only been there for a few hours, but I could totally spend the whole day there. Thanks for being so awesome!
Another way to consider getting your foot in the door is to maybe consider working as a gallery assistant. It depends on the type of museum, of course, and it is not a high paying job but it is a good way to get paid for working in a museum while you pursue the degrees necessary for more prestigious museum jobs. I work as a gallery assistant while working on my undergraduate degree in classical archaeology and many of my coworkers are doing the same. Also, recently. one of our full time gallery assistants was given the opportunity to lead his own personal tour of the museum. He was even featured in the paper and everything. But volunteering and interning help you work with the museum's materials in ways that you couldn't as a gallery assistant, so I would keep that in mind.
This was the best Ask Emily yet. Does a museum ever sell their exhibits to the public? If they run out of room or have too many of the same thing or maybe just need more funds
Awesome episode !! Ironically, today I listened to one of the recent Radio Lab podcast today and I heard your name. It was so cool that were you mentioned but I wanted to hear your voice in podcast.
You should do another video like you did in the gem room that was crazy how you had a priceless necklace on . Great show and can't wait to see more videos .
Shout out from Utah. Do you have any specimens from Lake Bonneville or any other great lakes that formed during the Ice Age at the field museum? I'd be interested to see them if you have their fossils.
Awesome, as always! :) Anyways. I've asked this before, but here I go again: Your enthusiasm over skinning a carcass is wildly entertaining, so one wonders if you (and Anna Goldman!) prefer dead animals over live ones?
Emily, you've said before that you were studying illustration before becoming part of your university's museum. As a fledgling artist I was wondering if you still draw, and if you do do you draw the things you get to see in the museum?
Emily's most important attribute is: A) She is a educator who is enthusiastic and engaging B) She inspires an interest in science and the natural world C) She is an example for girls of a woman displaying her intellect D) She is a hard working employee of the museum E) She is attractive If you have a problem answering, see me during my office hours. They are posted on my door.
"Attractive" is a nebulous word that means different things to different people. To some, it means something shallow, like physical appearance. To others, it's a wider phenomenon that includes such things as being lively, engaging and interesting by virtue of being interested in the world around ... her, because obviously I'm talking about Emily :)
One thing I didn't fully internalize until recently is that on some levels, space, compared to the deep sea, is really a piece of cake. Most importantly, the pressure difference between here where we live and the big bad vacuum of space is one atmosphere. That's the pressure difference you get for _every_ _10_ _meters_ of depth under water! Every 10 meters! So vacuum? Pffft, everybody and their grandma can build something that withstands the vacuum of space. But the deep sea is where engineers get a real challenge.
Henry Conrad-Poor Sure, the two environments have different challenges, which is why I said "on some levels". If other people are anything like me though, they might just have intuitively assumed that the deep sea is somehow easier because it's right here on earth and there is even life there so how hard can it be for us to get there?
These were all really interesting responses, I am slightly apprehensive about doing my thesis next year for psychology (which sounds the same as independent study...but it does sound exciting)
One of the highlights of my life is getting to come to Chicago and see the lions of tsavo. Can you do an entire episode into how the field museum came to acquire them? Who actually skinned and stuffed them for the display? Thanks!
Dear Emily (or Ask Emily if you prefer), Stupid follow-up question time: Did you know about the memory cells and metamorphosis process prior to doing this Ask Emily? Or did you learn about this area of science while responding to the question? (This is more of a metacognitive question.)
I was aware of the general concept, but only in passing - it took reading through a few papers before I understood the role imaginal cells play in restructuring, and understanding imaginal cells in the first place blew my mind. I love questions like that one asked by CGP Grey because they inspire me to think more deeply about a particular act of nature I had previously taken for granted, and motivated me to better comprehend the process.
***** Dear Emily, You mentioned that studies show butterflies can retain memories of their caterpillar lives. I have two (probably stupid) follow-up questions. First, how does such a study work? Second, are caterpillars actually conscious of what's happening to them during metamorphosis, and, if so, to what extent?
Sarah Presumably with psychological conditioning. You'd be surprised how many animals can be trained to react to for instance, a bell. More likely it was some kind of chemical they were trained to respond to though. If the butterfly reacts in a recognizable way to the trained stimulus even after a metamorphosis then it clearly has some cognitive retention, though not necessarily memory. All you'd have to do at that point is feed them at the same place every day at the same time. If they return to that place as butterflies after a metamorphosis then actual memory retention is probably taking place.
David Medberry Graeme Hart Sarah I did a quick search on Google and came up with this paper: www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001736 It appears that they gave the larva of moths electric shocks together with a certain odor to train them to avoid that odor. The adult moths still avoided the odor. And now I have the moth...butterfly...moth....butterfly scene from one of the earlier videos stuck in my head :p
i enjoy each episode, not only because she is beautiful and engaging but she is pretty damn smart and not in that unapproachable kind of way, but the kind of person i would love chatting with at a bar...
i also don't think i'm harassing her, i have never made a comment towards her before, was just saying, maybe you need to chill out and not take everything as an attack...
so cool. so planning a trip to the museum this year! I gotta say went to look at the tshirts and was totally underwhelmed. :( plz make some that say , " it still has brains on it". Perhaps even a tshirt contest would be great! I just totally blew my entry idea but whatever. yeah science!
scholar.google.com Although what you find there will be academic papers, so they might be rather hard for someone who's not in that field to understand. Also you often have to pay (lots of money) to see the papers. In this case though the second hit for 'butterfly memory retention' is a paper that was published in PLOS, so you can read it for free: www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001736
How about visiting some of the other museums in Chicago! Shedd Aquarium, History, Science and Industry .... I am sure you could get excellent access and support through your Field Museum contacts. Maybe even get a grant from the city for promoting these science venues?
Emily, you and Anna Goldman both mentioned that you really like skinning animals. This skinning -- evidently great fun -- is something I didn't even know of as a fun activity. I thought people just did that for meat, or fur. For someone like me, an animal-skinning outsider, could you explain what is so cool about it? Why do you like it so much?
when an animal dies in a fire and is just a charred skeleton, what do you do to preserve it? is it already preserved as a skeleton like the other models?
I just downloaded the volunteer application for my favorite museum (the Museum of Science in Boston) and filled it out! Thanks for the inspiration!!
lol cgp grey got a question in, gotta love that dude.
I think she said c*t*p grey. But I really can't tell. u_u
personwhoesrandom123 unless someone is trying to spoof the name, i think cgp grey is more likely.
personwhoesrandom123 I agree, I heard CTP Grey too. That said, I think it'd be super cool to have like a UA-cam celebrity version of Ask Emily. I hear a certain former waiter is in that neck of the woods. :-)
Yup, down below this thread she clarified with this "thebrainscoop14 minutes
I was aware of the general concept, but only in passing - it took reading through a few papers before I understood the role imaginal cells play in restructuring, and understanding imaginal cells in the first place blew my mind. I love questions like that one asked by CGP Grey because they inspire me to think more deeply about a particular act of nature I had previously taken for granted, and motivated me to better comprehend the process. "
CGP is it :D
kght222 Exactly, that's what I thought someone did. ;P
Christopher Willis Ah, aight.
Is that a soon racoon brooch??? Your ability to find interesting things is astounding, Emily.
Yes, I think your portrayal of Emily is spot on!
Becoming gratified by your own accomplishments. That's a good lesson there.
I would give you a gold star for this video!!
Emily, the work you are doing for the visibility of science and the importance of museums is incredible. Thank you so much! Keep up the awesomeness that is you!
The raccoon pin on your sweater was a nice touch.
The information about how caterpillars turn into butterflies is probably the coolest thing I've ever heard. Thank you for blowing my mind!
I love your presentation, Emily. Your delivery is witty, well-paced, down-to-earth and entertaining. Thanks for being one of the voices of modern science. The world is a better place because of what you and your peers do.
Did she say CGPGrey was the one who asked her about the caterpillar metamorphosis?
I love it when one of my favorite UA-cam personalities is a fan of another one of my favorite UA-cam personalities!!
I just heard you on RadioLab! I am so happy you are doing so much public outreach, you are awesome!
I love the fact that I get to see someone living their dream. Keep up the great work Emily!
I loved both the butterfly memories and the discussion of deep sea funding challenges. On the latter, exploring our world, as is done by the scientific fellows at the Field is still more solitary than is used in the approach to space exploration. Thank you as always!
Now the butterfly can remember being a caterpillar... can it remember being goo?
Omg. Love how excitable and energetic you are! You really seem to love your job. Almost makes me want to drop everything and skin animals for a living like you. Maybe in the next life :P Anyway thanks for an awesome show as usual.
Your enthusiasm is infectious. Makes me want to leave work and go to the local uni's natural history museum right now. :)
I got really lucky to go to the Field museum over New Years, which is awesome cuz i live in Boston and first time in Chicago!... I went looking for all the exhibits you mention in these videos, even got to touch the meteorites ... I might have only been there for a few hours, but I could totally spend the whole day there. Thanks for being so awesome!
The explanation of the butterfly metamorphosis is super trippy and sounds like magic.
you're high
I literally just got done watching all of your previous videos then this one gets uploaded!
The catterpillar/metarmorphosis stuff was ... indeed mindblowing. I need more on that.
that caterpillar/butterfly transformation thing sounds like magic, which is the best kind of science i think.
Could we have a whole video about the metamorphosis process? What you just said makes me dreamy...
This explains Hank's recent random discussion about how caterpillars retain a dislike of certain smells.
Another way to consider getting your foot in the door is to maybe consider working as a gallery assistant. It depends on the type of museum, of course, and it is not a high paying job but it is a good way to get paid for working in a museum while you pursue the degrees necessary for more prestigious museum jobs. I work as a gallery assistant while working on my undergraduate degree in classical archaeology and many of my coworkers are doing the same. Also, recently. one of our full time gallery assistants was given the opportunity to lead his own personal tour of the museum. He was even featured in the paper and everything. But volunteering and interning help you work with the museum's materials in ways that you couldn't as a gallery assistant, so I would keep that in mind.
This video made me so happy, and now I know more than I did 8 minutes ago! Your enthusiasm is contagious :)
Brain Scoop days are my favorite days!
You say so many interesting things I have to re-watch the whole video to hear what I missed.
This was the best Ask Emily yet.
Does a museum ever sell their exhibits to the public? If they run out of room or have too many of the same thing or maybe just need more funds
I really enjoy these videos. You are so well spoken and excited about what you do.
Thanks for answering my question Emily!
Another great video Emily.
I always get a little sad when I can hear the music start playing at the end of the video.
Awesome episode !! Ironically, today I listened to one of the recent Radio Lab podcast today and I heard your name. It was so cool that were you mentioned but I wanted to hear your voice in podcast.
Awesome as always! Love the passion that I see in your face. Keep it up!
That chair's rad! Oh, and of course, another awesome fun vid!
You should do another video like you did in the gem room that was crazy how you had a priceless necklace on . Great show and can't wait to see more videos .
I always stay for the "...it still has brains on it."
Shout out from Utah. Do you have any specimens from Lake Bonneville or any other great lakes that formed during the Ice Age at the field museum? I'd be interested to see them if you have their fossils.
The part about the butterflies is very interesting. Good show!!
I heard you on radiolab! It was awesome! You rock!!
CGP Grey ask's the most intelligent questions
Brain 'splosion at the caterpillar bit. I am now thinking wonderful SF story thunks. Thanks Emily!:D
Miss Graslie, you play Emily Graslie just right. Don't change a thing.
Awesome, as always! :)
Anyways. I've asked this before, but here I go again:
Your enthusiasm over skinning a carcass is wildly entertaining, so one wonders if you (and Anna Goldman!) prefer dead animals over live ones?
Emily, you've said before that you were studying illustration before becoming part of your university's museum. As a fledgling artist I was wondering if you still draw, and if you do do you draw the things you get to see in the museum?
Emily's most important attribute is:
A) She is a educator who is enthusiastic and engaging
B) She inspires an interest in science and the natural world
C) She is an example for girls of a woman displaying her intellect
D) She is a hard working employee of the museum
E) She is attractive
If you have a problem answering, see me during my office hours. They are posted on my door.
I have a problem answering. A, B, and C are all equally important with D being very close behind. None of them are "most important".
E although true is the least important. I believe the answer is C. There are few people like Emily.
"Attractive" is a nebulous word that means different things to different people. To some, it means something shallow, like physical appearance. To others, it's a wider phenomenon that includes such things as being lively, engaging and interesting by virtue of being interested in the world around ... her, because obviously I'm talking about Emily :)
JogInTheFog You are WAY over thinking this...
***** You are going to step right over the point of the thing, really?
Love the Q&A's Emily!!!
I now have a new interest thanks to you. These videos are fascinating.
One thing I didn't fully internalize until recently is that on some levels, space, compared to the deep sea, is really a piece of cake. Most importantly, the pressure difference between here where we live and the big bad vacuum of space is one atmosphere. That's the pressure difference you get for _every_ _10_ _meters_ of depth under water! Every 10 meters! So vacuum? Pffft, everybody and their grandma can build something that withstands the vacuum of space. But the deep sea is where engineers get a real challenge.
Henry Conrad-Poor Sure, the two environments have different challenges, which is why I said "on some levels". If other people are anything like me though, they might just have intuitively assumed that the deep sea is somehow easier because it's right here on earth and there is even life there so how hard can it be for us to get there?
Penny Lane Didn't that come up on Futurama at one point? :)
Also, now I really want to know everything there is to know about caterpillars :)
I just listened to your appearance on the radio that you mentioned in this video. It was cool.
Maybe it was just a podcast I got it off of the apple TV podcast app.
Videos like this one make me SO happy I hit the subscribe button. Emily, you rock. I'm not worthy.
I just want to say Emily, that the Brain Scoop has restarted my love of science, so thank you.
I love your work.
Best #ask yet. That caterpillar metamorphosis explanation was on point yo! Goin' hard in the biological paint at the Brainscoop.
These were all really interesting responses, I am slightly apprehensive about doing my thesis next year for psychology (which sounds the same as independent study...but it does sound exciting)
They talked about that butterfly study on Radiolab, it's pretty cool.
One of the highlights of my life is getting to come to Chicago and see the lions of tsavo. Can you do an entire episode into how the field museum came to acquire them? Who actually skinned and stuffed them for the display? Thanks!
there is an episode about them and who skinned them, the museum taxidermied them from skin rugs
Emily, you never disappoint. :) Invertebrates. So much more awesome than those who are blessed with a backbone.
DID SOMEONE SAY C.G.P. GREY???!!
aguentei a forma dela falar até aos 1:30m
I think she did!
Confirmed: guru gray does not have all the answers.
Dear Emily (or Ask Emily if you prefer),
Stupid follow-up question time: Did you know about the memory cells and metamorphosis process prior to doing this Ask Emily? Or did you learn about this area of science while responding to the question? (This is more of a metacognitive question.)
I was aware of the general concept, but only in passing - it took reading through a few papers before I understood the role imaginal cells play in restructuring, and understanding imaginal cells in the first place blew my mind. I love questions like that one asked by CGP Grey because they inspire me to think more deeply about a particular act of nature I had previously taken for granted, and motivated me to better comprehend the process.
***** Dear Emily,
You mentioned that studies show butterflies can retain memories of their caterpillar lives. I have two (probably stupid) follow-up questions. First, how does such a study work? Second, are caterpillars actually conscious of what's happening to them during metamorphosis, and, if so, to what extent?
Sarah
Presumably with psychological conditioning. You'd be surprised how many animals can be trained to react to for instance, a bell. More likely it was some kind of chemical they were trained to respond to though. If the butterfly reacts in a recognizable way to the trained stimulus even after a metamorphosis then it clearly has some cognitive retention, though not necessarily memory. All you'd have to do at that point is feed them at the same place every day at the same time. If they return to that place as butterflies after a metamorphosis then actual memory retention is probably taking place.
***** thanks for answering. This whole social media, internet, youtube, thing-y really does have humanity behind it after all!
David Medberry
Graeme Hart Sarah
I did a quick search on Google and came up with this paper: www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001736
It appears that they gave the larva of moths electric shocks together with a certain odor to train them to avoid that odor. The adult moths still avoided the odor.
And now I have the moth...butterfly...moth....butterfly scene from one of the earlier videos stuck in my head :p
Emily, keep up the excellent work. You are doing a great job.
the carrion beetle room is a not to be missed place to smell.
Excellent Q and A !
I heard you on Radiolab just a few days ago, and when they said your name I think I did the a double take, but with my ears.
Wait a sec. CGP Grey? @ 4:23 ?
Yes.
No, I think it sounded like CTPGrey. Sounds like a imitation channel to me.
***** It wasn't. I saw a few hours after i commented, that on CGP Grey's twitter he tweeted that Emily answered his question.
***** Maybe Cpt. Grey? ;)
Sam Spendla
Oh what d'you know, that's pretty cool
yup, you play Emily very very well indeed
Yes, I hang on Emily's every word until the "this still has brains on it".
Is 'thebrainscoop' subable?
nope, they are funded by the field museum...
love the typewriter
And you make time to come and meet fans!!
Could you make episodes out of your meetups with fans in the museum?
Butterfly memories. Mind blown.
"Poop" *smiles* and *Two thumbs up* lol you're too awesome.
The stuff on caterpillars is fascinating :-)
that shirt, has arrows on it!
have you ever done anything with archery? just wondering
i enjoy each episode, not only because she is beautiful and engaging but she is pretty damn smart and not in that unapproachable kind of way, but the kind of person i would love chatting with at a bar...
if it is taken as sexist, that was very much not the intention, i am sorry if that's how you perceive it, not how i intended it to be at all...
i also don't think i'm harassing her, i have never made a comment towards her before, was just saying, maybe you need to chill out and not take everything as an attack...
so cool. so planning a trip to the museum this year! I gotta say went to look at the tshirts and was totally underwhelmed. :( plz make some that say , " it still has brains on it". Perhaps even a tshirt contest would be great! I just totally blew my entry idea but whatever. yeah science!
I would go to Chicago just so i could meet you at the museum. I love your arrow shirt by the way.
great episode!
Any idea how/where to find the study about butterflies retaining their caterpillar stage memories? That sounds pretty mind-blowing.
scholar.google.com Although what you find there will be academic papers, so they might be rather hard for someone who's not in that field to understand. Also you often have to pay (lots of money) to see the papers. In this case though the second hit for 'butterfly memory retention' is a paper that was published in PLOS, so you can read it for free: www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001736
Wow! CGPGrey asked a question! :D
How about visiting some of the other museums in Chicago! Shedd Aquarium, History, Science and Industry .... I am sure you could get excellent access and support through your Field Museum contacts. Maybe even get a grant from the city for promoting these science venues?
Thank you! Good job!
Emily you rock! Keep it up.
love the racoon pin!
HOORAY!
Emily, you and Anna Goldman both mentioned that you really like skinning animals. This skinning -- evidently great fun -- is something I didn't even know of as a fun activity. I thought people just did that for meat, or fur.
For someone like me, an animal-skinning outsider, could you explain what is so cool about it? Why do you like it so much?
CGP Grey!
So what you're saying is volunteer? xD
Awesome video, thanks for answering some cool-ass questions!
Loving the Soon Raccoon pin. :D
I love the Arthopods singers. Ask Emily #5
So speaking of "thinking up new merchandise" when can we expect to be able to download The Brain Scoop theme song/ jingle as a ring tone?
Emily you are so intellegent and interesting!
Can we see more of that gorgeous typewriter?
-J
when an animal dies in a fire and is just a charred skeleton, what do you do to preserve it? is it already preserved as a skeleton like the other models?
The smartest person on UA-cam!
You are so funny and cute. Love the Racoon on your sweater!
Yes I needed this
Watching while eating dinner; 3:34 , that's my queue.
She is so freaking cool