'My locks blew freely from under my hat in the breeze, and nearly every lady I met looked at them with curiosity.' That must have been one great hair day.
I just discovered one of the public reprints from the 40s in my grandparents' old house. Even in a smaller version the prints are astoundingly beautiful.
You guys should just keep adding to the intro until it's comprised of nothing but clips of Emily laughing and smiling. It's wonderful to see someone so delighted with science.
I always watch to the very end to here "It still has brains on it". I always smile when I hear it. Please keep including that at the end of the video. Thanks for being awesome.
Love how her earings tend to relate to her topic. Also love how she payed further tribute to Audubon by looking up to the heavens. Thank you for this awesome video.
Emily, when you visit the Philadelphia area, I invite you to visit John James Audubon's home/museum in aptly named, Audubon, PA, near Valley Forge. I grew up in that town and a visit to Audubon's homestead is a must see! Many of his actual stuffed specimens are on display. Please consider a trip, Love your work, Amy
I love the new intro Emily, and the way you set up the cuts and editing as well as the info on Audubon was so professionally done. The quality of your videos are increasing with every new vid, keep up the good work Em
These last episodes shot by Tom McNamara are beautiful. Michael Aranda always did a great job and I really like is work in here and in Scishow but I feel Tom's filming and editing style and background music choices go really well with Emily's personality and presenting style. It just looks so beautiful and engaging. And the content is fascinating as always.
I forgot to mention those show too. My personal favorite is numberphile, but if I had to name all the great EDU channels, the list would go on and on. That's why I love UA-cam
I love Audubon I grow up in Audubon pa and went to Audubon elementary school and the first ever field trip I remember was to the Audubon bird sanctuary just down the road.
I live RIGHT down the street from Mill Grove which is where Audubon first lived in America. It's a bird sanctuary now hand has some really awesome foot paths. I highly recommend a visit to anyone in the Philly area. In fact it's a much nicer place to take a walk than Valley Forge and its very near by there as well.
I always enjoyed the folio in Key West, Florida held in Capt. Geiger's house, known as the Audubon house where Audubon stayed in 1832 while he was collecting of birds in the region.
The slides, the camera effects, and even Emily's cardigan gives off a Wes Andersonian vibe. Loving the new intro and background music. Oh and of course, the information :)
I knew about John J. Audubon -- but we all used a Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide to identify the birds in our backyard growing up in southwestern Michigan.
Great episode. Also, can I just say that library aisles are so visually satisfying. If I could I would shoot every other vlog that I do in them. And you guys' books are so old and cool looking too.
Years ago, I heard the story of a man who had painted the entire Mississippi River from the bank of one side. Each section was painted on a huge 8-10 foot tall canvas that was then stitched to the section preceding it to create a near "life-size" scroll of the entire river from it's headwaters in Minnesota to its delta in the Gulf. The scroll was mounted into a kind of film reel that would scroll the painting for viewing. This supposedly was produced in the 1800s, and the artist would travel around the US and Europe offering viewings of the river to audiences over several days - as it took that long for a complete viewing. Does anyone know what happened to this painting or if it still exists? Or if it ever existed?
One full set of the double elephant folio went for around 11 mill in an auction a year or so ago. I bought a huge Hard cover edition (orig price $280 though i lucked out and got it for a lot less) for my mom for her birthday.
The intro is much improved. Not sure if anyone else notices, but there is a tad bit of clipping in the audio throughout this one, watch out for that next time. Good video though, early naturalists are so fascinating
Another great episode. Audubon might be America's most famous naturalist, but I must confess I'd never heard of him before today. In other news: metric units! \o/ Thanks :).
I've enjoyed PICTURES of birds (not actual birds, no thank you, too many poops on the head from pigeons) since 2nd grade and Sister Viola the Bird Nun. Thanks so much for sharing about James Audobon! I've seen his book at the museum when I lived is Chicago. (Besides Giordano's pizza, Chicago's museums are what I miss most.) Looking forward to more from my 2nd favorite museum! (Sorry, Art Institute will always be #1 in my heart. :-) )
Emily your choice is very interesting, and you being cute at the end a treat, but I wish you could have made a montage of all the prints. The work is amazing, and I wish I were wealthy enough to have a complete original set.
I don't know if this is the case for the Field Museum, but from my time spent interning in archives, gloves are not used on books because gloves make it extremely difficult to turn fragile pages. You can actually damage paper far more by using thin cotton gloves. So, you can use bare fingers, just as long as you don't handle the paper too much!
From what I understand, the idea of using gloves or not tends to vary between institutions, as well as obviously depending on the material (velum, paper or papyrus for example) and condition of the book in question. Considering the Field Museums copy is probably in near-pristine condition and it's not exactly getting flicked through by dozens of sweaty hands a day, I don't see there being any need to use gloves to just turn one page a day.
I was more asking about the journal Emily was holding. When I visited the Special Collections part of my university library I recall that gloves were required to hold and touch certain books. I now see that it varies from institution to institution. Interesting.
Hey Emily I really like the new intro. It is mysterious, fun, and promises excellent topics. Also I was wondering if there was a problem with the mike for this episode. 1080p is a nice new option but dialogue quality seems to have decreased.
Audobon's story does not end happily. He was described as senile (having what we now call dementia) by 1848, and died in 1851 with little or no memory of his accomplishments.
There is a poster whose comment is below mine. He is threatening Emily with violence. Please, report his account as abusive. Lets take this idiot off-line.
'My locks blew freely from under my hat in the breeze, and nearly every lady I met looked at them with curiosity.'
That must have been one great hair day.
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I just discovered one of the public reprints from the 40s in my grandparents' old house. Even in a smaller version the prints are astoundingly beautiful.
You guys should just keep adding to the intro until it's comprised of nothing but clips of Emily laughing and smiling. It's wonderful to see someone so delighted with science.
That is an extremely good idea.
I always watch to the very end to here "It still has brains on it". I always smile when I hear it. Please keep including that at the end of the video. Thanks for being awesome.
Love how her earings tend to relate to her topic. Also love how she payed further tribute to Audubon by looking up to the heavens. Thank you for this awesome video.
I never noticed that but you're totally right. neat!
Emily, when you visit the Philadelphia area, I invite you to visit John James Audubon's home/museum in aptly named, Audubon, PA, near Valley Forge.
I grew up in that town and a visit to Audubon's homestead is a must see!
Many of his actual stuffed specimens are on display.
Please consider a trip,
Love your work,
Amy
5:04 I love that you have so much fun doing this. It tots adds to the enjoyment of every episode.
I love the new intro Emily, and the way you set up the cuts and editing as well as the info on Audubon was so professionally done. The quality of your videos are increasing with every new vid, keep up the good work Em
The editing is done by michale aranda~ :)
Vanya Boon Actually, the editing of the last two videos is by our new producer, Tom McNamara :)
These last episodes shot by Tom McNamara are beautiful. Michael Aranda always did a great job and I really like is work in here and in Scishow but I feel Tom's filming and editing style and background music choices go really well with Emily's personality and presenting style. It just looks so beautiful and engaging. And the content is fascinating as always.
ooh, I like that turning the pages every week thing
Zero dislikes. As it should be. This was a terrific episode. Emily just keeps getting better, too! Thanks, Brain Scoop!
The show keeps getting better. It's by far the best educational channel on UA-cam. (Sorry CrashCourse and SciShow.)
If you haven't checked out Brady Haran's channels (periodicvideos, numberphile, Sixty Symbols, and more), you're in for a treat. :)
I forgot to mention those show too. My personal favorite is numberphile, but if I had to name all the great EDU channels, the list would go on and on. That's why I love UA-cam
Tom is NAILING the sound design and visuals. I'm loving it all!
So thank you Emily Graslie for insuring that we’ll be remembering and learning for years to come - both in History and in our Hearts.
I love Audubon I grow up in Audubon pa and went to Audubon elementary school and the first ever field trip I remember was to the Audubon bird sanctuary just down the road.
Great video! The new bells and whistles give it a very nice polish! And it was informative and interesting!
The extra pause at the end before the last line made me laugh.
We use these for home school and our children often request your videos for bed time. Thank you for your work!
Those earrings are humongous.
I live RIGHT down the street from Mill Grove which is where Audubon first lived in America. It's a bird sanctuary now hand has some really awesome foot paths. I highly recommend a visit to anyone in the Philly area. In fact it's a much nicer place to take a walk than Valley Forge and its very near by there as well.
I like this new format. It feels like a Wes Anderson Movie. I keep expecting the camera to pan over to Soon Raccoon in a tent playing a record player.
I love those drawings so much. The Birds of America plays a big role in one of my favorite books, Okay For Now by Gary D. Schmidt.
I have reached the point where I emit an audible, involuntary 'oooh' of interest when I see a new episode of the brainscoop.
I always enjoyed the folio in Key West, Florida held in Capt. Geiger's house, known as the Audubon house where Audubon stayed in 1832 while he was collecting of birds in the region.
The slides, the camera effects, and even Emily's cardigan gives off a Wes Andersonian vibe. Loving the new intro and background music. Oh and of course, the information :)
I watch your videos all the time and I also work at Audubon HQ so this was an exciting one to see!
How does this show keep getting better each episode? Amazing! I want to own one of those 120...
I really like how this kinda has a Wes Anderson feel to it. Very fitting for the topic....and now I want Wes Anderson to do an Audubon biopic.
I shed a little tear at the end there.
The music in the video is great! Whoever picked it is a super genius. Excellent video, I need to go to the Field Museum this summer!
I knew about John J. Audubon -- but we all used a Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide to identify the birds in our backyard growing up in southwestern Michigan.
That was so cool and interesting!!! Ahh, some of the many reasons why I LOVE this show! Thanks Emily!!
it would be cool to see how does a display develops. from the planning stages to the replications to the actual public display. :)
This was very interesting! I read a book on Audubon a long time ago and really enjoyed it his paintings are very beautiful
The Brain Scoop gets better with each episode!
Oh Emily… your personality is so adorable and endearing and it makes learning so much more fun :)
I was just looking through a Birds of Illinois field guide today! Gonna get my birding on!
I love the sounds of the individual animals :)
Great episode. Also, can I just say that library aisles are so visually satisfying. If I could I would shoot every other vlog that I do in them. And you guys' books are so old and cool looking too.
I've seen the multnomah county library ( in Portland, or)'s complete set. You have to make a special appointment to do so, but it's worth it
Years ago, I heard the story of a man who had painted the entire Mississippi River from the bank of one side. Each section was painted on a huge 8-10 foot tall canvas that was then stitched to the section preceding it to create a near "life-size" scroll of the entire river from it's headwaters in Minnesota to its delta in the Gulf. The scroll was mounted into a kind of film reel that would scroll the painting for viewing. This supposedly was produced in the 1800s, and the artist would travel around the US and Europe offering viewings of the river to audiences over several days - as it took that long for a complete viewing. Does anyone know what happened to this painting or if it still exists? Or if it ever existed?
One full set of the double elephant folio went for around 11 mill in an auction a year or so ago. I bought a huge Hard cover edition (orig price $280 though i lucked out and got it for a lot less) for my mom for her birthday.
The intro is much improved. Not sure if anyone else notices, but there is a tad bit of clipping in the audio throughout this one, watch out for that next time.
Good video though, early naturalists are so fascinating
As a studio artist and Curiosity Correspondent I'm surprised it has taken Emily this long to get to covering Audibon.
Your videos keep getting better and better! :D
Oh yes... that sappy far away tilted stare... nice touch!
Holy gosh, how are you so adorable and informative at the same time?
Thanks, yet again, for the scoop!
This episode seemed Wes Anderson inspired... The music, font, book backdrop, circular cropping during quotes.... I likey!
Excellent video, as always!
I like these highly stylized videos as of late!
i could kiss you for how awesome this vid was
I like Emily's voice, and her earrings.
As a German I only understand "Autobahn".
As the Stig, I only understand Autobahn.
TheStigsCuz Some say he once broke the speed limit in the Autobahn... all we know is he's called THE STIG.
This video was so great. I just. I love it so much
Wow, 35? That's, like, nearly dead. lol Coming from such a youngster, I find the delivery funny.
you are the best story teller!
You know what? Wes Anderson should give you a role in one of his movies! :D
Another great episode. Audubon might be America's most famous naturalist, but I must confess I'd never heard of him before today.
In other news: metric units! \o/ Thanks :).
i'm getting a wes anderson vibe! :3
I love that book!!
Beautiful choice of music in the background! =)
Another awesome video!
Loved the fade.
This was such a cool video :D Keep up the awesome work :)
Wow, very informative, Emily. I also loved the very appropriate earrings for this clip. ;)
I've enjoyed PICTURES of birds (not actual birds, no thank you, too many poops on the head from pigeons) since 2nd grade and Sister Viola the Bird Nun. Thanks so much for sharing about James Audobon! I've seen his book at the museum when I lived is Chicago. (Besides Giordano's pizza, Chicago's museums are what I miss most.) Looking forward to more from my 2nd favorite museum! (Sorry, Art Institute will always be #1 in my heart. :-) )
Make all the videos!
Another like for the new intro. And I lurve your earrings, Emily!
Maybe the ink isn't showing up on camera but that journal looks blank.
Still an awesome video, Emily.
Definitely like the new intro
Great video!
M, another epic video ... love you keep it up.
...It still has brains on it.
Awesome.
Emily your choice is very interesting, and you being cute at the end a treat, but I wish you could have made a montage of all the prints. The work is amazing, and I wish I were wealthy enough to have a complete original set.
You can actually look up every single print on Audubon's website: web4.audubon.org/bird/BoA/BOA_index.html
5:04 that face has "holy shit that was cheesy" written all over it
Why are gloves not required to use the books?
I don't know if this is the case for the Field Museum, but from my time spent interning in archives, gloves are not used on books because gloves make it extremely difficult to turn fragile pages. You can actually damage paper far more by using thin cotton gloves. So, you can use bare fingers, just as long as you don't handle the paper too much!
But what about the oils that might linger in from your hand?
From what I understand, the idea of using gloves or not tends to vary between institutions, as well as obviously depending on the material (velum, paper or papyrus for example) and condition of the book in question.
Considering the Field Museums copy is probably in near-pristine condition and it's not exactly getting flicked through by dozens of sweaty hands a day, I don't see there being any need to use gloves to just turn one page a day.
I was more asking about the journal Emily was holding.
When I visited the Special Collections part of my university library I recall that gloves were required to hold and touch certain books.
I now see that it varies from institution to institution. Interesting.
"That's a huge piece of paper." - Emily Graslie
The Elephant Folio of Birds of America wasn't "to scale," it showed every bird in its LIFE SIZE. That's a scale of 1:1.
Hey Emily I really like the new intro. It is mysterious, fun, and promises excellent topics. Also I was wondering if there was a problem with the mike for this episode. 1080p is a nice new option but dialogue quality seems to have decreased.
I love the new intro :D
Cool video, I like the new intro.
Are there any artifacts of Proto-Humans in the field museum? Could we see some?
hi Emily!
awesome episode. i was wondering .. how did you do your hair? it's really pretty and i want to try to recreate it
Great video. However, Scotland isn't in England. That's like saying Illinois is in Missouri. It *is* in Britain, for the time being at least.
You guys should do a video on coprolite. :P
Audobon's story does not end happily.
He was described as senile (having what we now call dementia) by 1848, and died in 1851 with little or no memory of his accomplishments.
Birds are like, my third favourite animal :D
squirrels are my new favorite reptile
Justin Connors I see what you did there.
Wait, how is flamingo part of the North American fauna?
Huh. Well done episode. I don't generally find the non skinning ones all that interesting but this was captivating :3
Thanks for including a metric measurement for the international community. :)
Can you do an episode on corvids?
"It wasn't until he was nearly 35..."
Emily, dear, might you not want to rephrase that?
Cool vid!
What's the background music?
Were the feather earrings on purpose or a happy accident?
I've heard some of the birds were made up to lengthen the book. Is this true?
Those blackout cuts are really distracting.
There is a poster whose comment is below mine.
He is threatening Emily with violence.
Please, report his account as abusive.
Lets take this idiot off-line.
This channel seems to be evolving into a Wes Anderson film.