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For a person whose phrase "It still has brains on it" lives rent free in my head, Im completely unphased by you spending longer than ever necessary filming the leg of a racoon carcass.
I think we clearly need SoonRaccoon fanart to be sent into a PO box and then have it show up in the background every once in a while, so SoonRaccoon's ghost can have a variety of new and different physical forms to inhabit so that he won't have to visit through fresh and flee infested raccoon carcasses.
Emily, it’s clear you have experienced some stuff. But we _know_ you’ve got this. We believe in _you._ So do over 600K other subscribers. Take this at your pace, and know that we are just glad to be allowed to share your experiences. It’s obvious this channel will be even better than ever. Small steps, okay? As always, stay safe out there!
It's small, but so so unique: The Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia. Opened to the public in 1865, museum layout has been the same since the 1890s. It's such a one of a kind experience to have a museum with 150 year old specimens where the displays themselves are also specimens of how we presented and educated about natural history over time. Huge original lecture hall and rare book library. Staff is incredible and would love to help out. I was a work-study student there in college and cannot recommend it enough.
WELCOME BACK! 3D printer ideas: macrophages or other cells blown up so you can hold one in the palm of your hand. Hand-held tectonic plates to show their interactions. Print a bunch of bird hearts real-sized (I'm thinking like hummingbird all the way to albatross) to show the size differences. Print one of the early microscopes where they just had a glass sphere embedded in a thing and looked through that. I think trying to 3D model and then print one of your paintings would be awesome Not printing idea itself, but a video on the behind-the-scenes of how 3D Printers are used in museums and conservation would be neat!
When I was a kid, I had a small platypus skull which I found on a fishing trip. The bone was sun-bleached, it had long since been cleaned out by insects and whatnot. It was probably 100% illegal to take it with me, but I was a kid, had no idea about that. That artifact of my childhood is lost, now, but one of the first things I printed was a platypus skull. What I learned in that process is museum scans are really _not great_ for printing... The point of my story, you could print larger-than-life anatomical models and stuff!
PLEASE come to the Natural History Museum in London. Not only does it have a world class collection, but the building itself is amazing. You need to start by taking in the front of the building, with all the differently coloured stone and the amazing stone carvings inspired by the natural world.
I LOVE this museum! I have visited a few times from the Netherlands. It is my top favourite place in London. The building is so beautiful, and the exhibitions are beautiful and interesting. I definitely second this. I want to go back there now!
One of the first videos I ever showed my now husband was your wolf dissection (bold choice, yes, but he did stick around). The Brain Scoop has a special place in my heart and I am so glad you are back doing it!
For a 3D printer idea, I think you should print a raccoon for the spirit of Soon raccoon to occupy and give you some peace. Edit: I'm so glad you're back!
Emily, we’ve interacted a few times virtually and I need to share how important your work is to me. Hanks visit video came around during my high school years and the Brain Scoop held my hand as I navigated my college choices and career path. While I always wanted to work in a natural or cultural history museum, I got an amazing job offer to work in the education department at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte NC. If you happen to find yourself in the Queen City, I would be delighted to give you a tour and thank you in-person for the tremendous impact you have had on my life. You are such a treasure to me. Maggie.
I’m on the far end of my career as a math teacher. Thanks to Emily, I’m spending my retirement working at my local natural history museum preparing fossils, maintaining the wet herp collection, and leading public hikes through the local mountains and desert.
3D printers... One thing I have always wished museums would do is upload STL files for their collections as they scan them. I know a lot of museums have started scanning, it would be awesome to be able to 3D print an artifact to be able to handle something that you normally can't even travel to view, let alone handle. From the tools of ancient peoples, to dinosaur bones, it would be awesome to be able to view, handle, and experience these things. As for the Bambu, they are remarkably easy to set up and use, just jump in. You will soon find yourself solving problems you didn't think you could.
hi! this is a late response, but a lot of museums have large galleries on sketchfab with downloadable models. I’m not sure if sketchfab will convert the file to an stl, but it’s easy to do with blender. if you’re interested in insects, big bee (a multi-institutional project) should be uploading a few hundred free use bee models in the next few months on bee library!
From that first time Hank Green visited your little museum in the bowels of the university to now, I’ve loved watching your content. I’m so glad you’re back!
Emily I am so glad you are back and the Brain Scoop is yours again. You are one of the best science educators I've found and you were greatly missed. Welcome back!
You’re one of the first creators (and people) to have gotten me thinking seriously about museum and library sciences, and now I’ve worked two years at a local library and intend to get my MLIS! So excited you’re back, and Soon Raccoon too!
Welcome back, Emily! Your art restoration collaboration idea made me think of Baumgartner Restoration right in Chicago. They have an awesome UA-cam channel and I think you two would be great together.
I watched this channel throughout highschool, then during college I was a docent in my school's natural history museum. I KNOW that Brain Scoop played a pretty big part in me getting so excited about working and teaching with taxidermy specimens.
Hearing that you got deep into native plants is so exciting!! I'd love to see you collab with In Defense of Plants (again) or the North American Native Plant Society to talk about gardening with native plants. Restoring native ecosystems is so important and many people have space for a few natives!
You should call your friend Kyle more often.. your friends shouldn't have to be sending you questions for videos 😂 Also the subliminal messaging every time the haunting was mentioned 😂
@@thebrainscoop oh yeah for sure! I thought it was funny because I thought "I have a friend named Kyle" for the third time before realizing it was repeating ,😂
Don't get me wrong, I think it was AMAZING that you got to work with the Field Museum. But my favorite videos are the ones where you just geek out about something that YOU find interesting. You are the best curiosity inspir-er when you are excited and passionate. I'm SO GLAD you get to do this again.
The Brain Scoop was one of the first channels I ever subscribed to, and seeing it revive (and that you're doing well!) fills me with nostalgia and indescribable joy.
Welcome back Emily!!! I’d LOVE to see more content on anthropology / archaeology-I am currently getting a PhD in anthropology, and am finishing up grad school (hopefully) in the spring of next year. You are such an inspiration to me and many others who want to make science accessible to the public!
I’m so glad you are back Emilie. I started watching because of Michael Aranda when I was in high school. Several of my favorite UA-cam channels from them have since moved on, but I’m happy you are back. I would love to support you, but as a newly married college student I think the most I can do is to share this channel with my wife who will be so into this content. Thank you for being inspiring. I have been encouraged to peruse the things I am passionate about by seeing your example. From one subscriber too sentimental to leave a formerly retired channel, welcome back!
UA-cam like it when you do shorts. You could make these short videos about a thing you collected or just a fun fact about a bug you found in your yard. You could even tell us about the native plants you planted.
Welcome back! I’m curious about seeing what could be learned from the facilities where they study human decomposition, like at the university of Tennessee, or Texas state.
Emily I am SO EXCITED! I work at the Peggy Notebaert nature museum and I SO hope you are able to collab with us at some point!! I got to meet you twice back in 2015 (when I was 15 years old) at the field museum. The first time was at a bat presentation and I was so nervous I cried a little but you were so nice! And the second time was after I'd started volunteering in the playlab at the field! That experience is what led me to being here working at the nature museum today, and if it wasn't for you I don't think I would have realized how big of a love I have for museums and natural education. Thank you for all that you do, I'm so excited to see what's next!
Since you're taking suggestions and you mentioned your incredible native Chicago plant garden, I wonder if Joey Santore of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't would be interested in a collaboration if you reached out!
Love the dead raccoon story by the way. As a hobby I articulate animal skeletons and a big part of that is getting the skeletons clean. I prefer open burials (buckets in the woods) and I also collect samples of all the various beetles that assist in decomposition! Thanks for sharing!! 😊
Hearing about the internship put a big smile on my face. I stumbled up on this channel by chance because I was curious about how things are preserved for research, and it was fun to learn from someone about the same age as me, sharing what they were passionate about or learning. I kind of shudder to think about how old my account is, but it's always fun to see the home team score a win. Best of luck with whatever comes next!
After the first couple questions in a row from Kyle, I wondered if there had been limited opportunity for people to submit questions yet, and if all the questions would be from Kyle. That would have been kind of funny, like. "Hey Kyle, I want to start a questions series again, but I need questions to kick start it. Can you come up with 30 or 40 questions that sound like people who aren't you might ask?"
Just some randon thoughts. Maybe you can get a nice framed picture of Soon raccoon and use it for / in your back drops? Or maybe you will find a freshly deceased racoon and we could have a squishy taxidermy episode and you could call that raccoon boon or something! Anyway thanks Emily great content as always! 🙂
Hell yeah 3D printing and museum stuff! Spent many years at Discovery Place working with teachers and 3D printing. One popular thing was printing topographical maps (lots of sites make it easy to generate them) and then experimenting with hydrodynamics via spray bottles and such.
DUDE! You're theme song brings back nostalgia of me eating lunch in a dingy corner of my university absolutely exhausted studying for exams, cramming a sandwich in my face while watching the brain scoop. I'm so happy you're back!!!
Oh, how I've missed you!! To this day, saying "soon raccoon" is still a part of my daily vernacular - happy to see he's doing well and still loved by many!! And happy to see you're doing well, Emily. Take care, and love from Canada! XX
Emily, I am crying with joy. I don't get on youtube much any more, but you and your videos have been a gigantic source of delight and inspiration ever since the wolf specimen videos. I have to say that I am so so so so excited that you included footage of the dead raccoons you found. xD It baffles me how much fascination and love I feel for the process of decay and how warm it makes my heart when I see that other people are just as fascinated! Life perpetuates in the slime and stench and it is nasty and it is beautiful. I'm so glad you've continued on your life path to share the joy of these natural phenomena with the world. May Soon Raccoon continue to help you find amazing discoveries. They are opportunists, after all, those trash pandas. :)
Welcome Back! You are, in no small part, partially responsible for the dead raven I have in my freezer right now. Thinking of getting it mounted/stuffed on top a buffalo skull I have kicking around. Good times!
Oh man, our family dog was dug up a few weeks after she died when I was in I think middle school. I noticed a bunch of vultures in our yard and went over to investigate. The smell was...well, of all people I'm sure Emily can imagine. Maggie didn't look like herself. Her hair was gone, her skin was like...shrink wrapped to her bones. And she was out and about and somewhat scattered around. My father and I gathered her up and reburied her before my mom got home. We covered her with big rocks before we shoveled the dirt back on. She was a good four or five feet down, as I recall. It's always entertaining to find a decaying mammal in your yard.
@@thebrainscoop It honestly wasn't. We had sheep and llamas and just tons of different animals my whole life. Some of them got old and needed burial, so my parents explained death and decay when I was really young. I witnessed and participated in the burial of several dead animals before this happened, from old age and disease and unhappy accident. So while finding Maggie was exceptionally gross, particularly the smell, I knew she was in the process of being returned to the nutrient cycle, which for me at least is very comforting.
I've lived in different parts of Alaska for years, and always enjoyed watching Sandhill Cranes in Fairbanks, and Homer. But sometimes they will call loudly as the sunrises right outside your house, and wake you up at 3 or 4 am.
I can't remember if I posted this before or not but your early brain scoop videos gave me the vocabulary I needed to help my kid be excited about exploring science things that are kind of gross. I got us some owl pellets to dissect and we had a great time. And I feel like you were a part of that so thank you ❤
First - I'm so, so glad you're back doing this show. I've missed it so much. Second - you should absolutely go to the bottom of the ocean. It's amazing and has so much to teach us about the way natural systems function. There is so much to see and it's all so alien and spectacular. Go. Do it!
I'm only seeing this video now, glad you're back and I am one of those that really miss the dead squishy things! But! About the Gothenburg museum, so funny to hear you talk about it. I have gone to it almost every year since I was a teenager when I go to the city and visit my family, it is probably the best natural history museum I've been to in Europe. The Oslo one is good yet small, the Helsinki one is really nice too! Amazing exhibits of animals in natural environments, and urban ones!
You made me want to work in a museum SO badly in my early 20s I'm now 25, I've been watching since I was in high school (wow time flies). I suffer from major indecision so picking a more "solid" career path is difficult for me, but this is definitely bringing it back 😭 My therapist had me take a career aptitude test kind of thing to figure out which way to go and the results were mostly things like teaching. I did actually have an interest in being a teacher for a while, but being a teacher in a classroom seems kind of like a nightmare to me (props to all teachers, I don't know how y'all do it). BUT a museum seems kind of like an ideal setting for me to be able to teach people while getting to learn myself. I think it would be really interesting if you covered your museum working experience and what made you pivot from studio arts to museum studies. A long way to say that I'm glad you're back and I cannot wait to see what you do. I think a dermestid beetle is a fitting mascot. Maybe less fitting, but some kind of bat. Just because they're cute
I've always been a science geek/nerd but when I watch the incredible enthusiasm you have on your videos, it gives me the push to learn and seek out even more. Thank you
Me and the Mrs have had a 3D printer for nearly a year now and it has been super useful for tonnes of stuff including projects for work. But by far the most useful thing is for gifts, especially if they are personalised. 3D printing to normal people is basically magic, so I always get a great response to any gift with someone's name printed on it. In fact I currently have a couple of last minute stocking fillers printing off right now!
Good to see you! The whale hall in Göteborgs naturhistoriska museum was renovated in 2021 so I don't see why you wouldn't be able to get a closeup experience if you asked nicely! Also I used to live in Gothenburg for many years and I can highly recommend that you visit during spring/summer for the best weather experience. Keep up the good work!
Wonderful to see the curiosity hasn't waned. Looking forward to wherever you're led. You mentioned going to an art museum to see about art conservation, what about going to someplace like the National Music Museum in Vermillion, SD, to see how they conserve the older instruments. A chance to connect the musician in you to the channel. The realm of natural science and acoustics are closely intertwined, especially in the older instruments.
I am a low-level Patreon supporter. I have very little extra income, but you, and just one other UA-camr out of the many I follow, are so amazing that I just feel a need to do as much as I can to support you. I wish I could do more. And I hope that other folks who can do it find a way to contribute, too. As you went through the questions, I was reminded of all the different ways you have made amazing content. I really like thesre Ask Emily's, for one thing, and the brain-scooping, but when you get out into the field -- whether to the rain-forest or your backyard -- I think that's when my face ends up hurting the most from the constant smiling you tend to bring on. I am SO glad you are back!
The Museum of the North, in Fairbanks, AK is a pretty amazing museum for the regional specimens, and I hope you can make it there sometime! So happy to see you posting again!
The first thing that comes to my mind for the 3D printer and your channel in general, I would think printing anatomical structures that are strange and interesting would be cool!
Emily! You need to go to Ithaca NY and visit The Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, the Ornithology Lab, and the Cornell University Insect Collection and then head over to the Museum of the Earth nearby. Cornell also has one of the best collections of Blaschka Glass Invertebrates.
OMG, Emily, I'm laughing SO HARD! I love your storytelling style. "Yeah, well, it turns out I gave my cats fleas." I'm so glad you're back. And congrats on not having more committee meetings. I hate office stuff.
Your enthusiasm is THE BEST motivation for just staying a curious human fooooreeeeever. I'm still planning to do my own prehistoric road trip starting from Kansas City (where I now live) and can't wait for warmer weather. I just visited Morocco at the end of November. Come to find out they are a fossil haven!!! You can just walk into the desert and find huge outcroppings of rocks jammed pack with fossils. But be sure to book a camel ride in the desert if not a full day in the desert and overnight. BTW, the Natural History museum in Denver has been my favorite place to visit since I was kid growing up there. Have you been there and how does it rank? I think it's pretty tops, at least according to my anthropology teachers years ago. Keep exploring all the things dead and not so dead. LOL
So many places tied to memories from childhood trips to visit my grandparents in Western Nebraska! I hadn't thought about Kearney and the Sandhill Cranes or Evans Plunge in years! Can't wait to see your new adventures 💚
This is an amazing holiday gift, thank you for the updates and the new video! I vote a representation of Soon Racoon-plushie, toy-as the 'new' mascot but I support whatever you decide.
I'm so glad you're back to making content. I've nerded out about your videos with a ton of my friends lol cause IT STILL HAS BRAINS ON IT! if I had one request, I'd love more dissection videos. idk the legal stuff involved with that but those were so freakin cool
I'm so glad you are back, I love "It still has brains on it" and it's constantly in my mind. Specially since I like tacos de sesos. I also appreciate the work done in museum collections so much more now
Emily just want to let you know how much I have missed your videos but especially you being you on camera. I'm so very glad you're back. And to others, yeah buy her art work. I have one of a place in southern WY that I have been to several times and she nailed it!
I recommend the Marine Science Center (Oregon State University) in Newport, Oregon. They have lots of bivalves as well as starfish and crabs. Big project on why starfish die-off along the Pacific NW.
Emily, I love your work amd it's wonderful to see you back on camera. Thank you! Last summer I spent some time working on a small farm processing pastured chicken and I think it might be really fun and educational to show people how birds get from pasture to the freezer. Bird anatomy is very interesting!
So so glad to see you back! It's more natural than history but snake discovery in minnesota do education on reptiles. They have a bunch of their videos on their youtube channel including some on unhatched egg disections and reptile health conditions. Might be worth a look into?
So Jack Dempseys are predators. Were there other species of fish in the stream? There has to be a steady food source so what were they eating. Now I want a whole episode on just that topic!!!!!!!
For a budget on location shoot, you could come up here to Milwaukee: The art museum is fantastic, Discovery World (a hands on science museum) is right next door. Next to that is a area dedicated to native flora. The Milwaukee County Museum isn't too far from there, either. Plus, about 20 minutes north is the Audubon center.
I wasn't expecting a surprise mention of our natural history museum here in Gothenburg! It's not a very big museum but it's a very nice one and definitely worth visiting if you get the chance. I got to go inside the blue whale once when my school class visited (in the late 80s) and it was super exciting, but it seems like they very rarely open it these days. The museum is in a big park (Slottsskogen) where you can visit some living animals as well, and it's right next to the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens, so if you come here sometime between late spring and early autumn you can make a whole day out of looking at cool plants and animals. Anyway, It's good to see you back. Your enthusiasm has always been really infectuous and I look forward to seeing whatever you do next.
If you're around Austin you should go to Alveus Sanctuary. They're a non-profit private animal sanctuary set up to collaborate with streamers and youtubers to do educational outreach and they're awesome.
Yes, yes, yes! I litterally shouted when you mentioned the Malm whale. I thought of recomending it as soon as you asked for suggestions. It's such a cool thing we have here in Gothenburg.
Mascot ideas! Peatle the Beatle. Schmee the Flea. Marion Carrion. …I can do this all day. I’ve been watching you since very near the beginning. Way before you hit big. I’m glad you are back. :)
all I can say is You Are Amazing! My family has followed The Brain Scoop for years and we were sad to see it go dormant but super excited to see you emerge (like Cicadas) again - making noise of course - lol. I'm wandering over to Patreon right now!
So excited you're back! If you do ever end up in the UK, I recommend the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford - it's got a natural history half and an anthropology half (where the exhibits are arranged by function rather than culture!) in a super pretty building jam-packed with stuff. Even if it's not for #content, it's well worth a visit!
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Emily look up Nicola Toki ceo of Forest and Bird in Aotearoa New Zealand. How do we get you and Animalogic to come to Aotearoa?
*"IT STILL HAS BRAINS ON IT"* would make a great t-shirt!
_MERRRRRRCH!_
Print you a soon raccoon to ward off the hauntings lol
For a person whose phrase "It still has brains on it" lives rent free in my head, Im completely unphased by you spending longer than ever necessary filming the leg of a racoon carcass.
I think we clearly need SoonRaccoon fanart to be sent into a PO box and then have it show up in the background every once in a while, so SoonRaccoon's ghost can have a variety of new and different physical forms to inhabit so that he won't have to visit through fresh and flee infested raccoon carcasses.
SHE'S ALIVE!!! I can't even begin to state how happy this makes my heart!!!
Me too!
Did you just think she died, lol
Emily, it’s clear you have experienced some stuff. But we _know_ you’ve got this. We believe in _you._ So do over 600K other subscribers. Take this at your pace, and know that we are just glad to be allowed to share your experiences. It’s obvious this channel will be even better than ever. Small steps, okay? As always, stay safe out there!
It's small, but so so unique: The Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia. Opened to the public in 1865, museum layout has been the same since the 1890s. It's such a one of a kind experience to have a museum with 150 year old specimens where the displays themselves are also specimens of how we presented and educated about natural history over time. Huge original lecture hall and rare book library. Staff is incredible and would love to help out. I was a work-study student there in college and cannot recommend it enough.
"A dead racoon gave me fleas"
Now, that's an excuse for one's not doing one's homework that I have never heard before.
WELCOME BACK! 3D printer ideas:
macrophages or other cells blown up so you can hold one in the palm of your hand.
Hand-held tectonic plates to show their interactions.
Print a bunch of bird hearts real-sized (I'm thinking like hummingbird all the way to albatross) to show the size differences.
Print one of the early microscopes where they just had a glass sphere embedded in a thing and looked through that.
I think trying to 3D model and then print one of your paintings would be awesome
Not printing idea itself, but a video on the behind-the-scenes of how 3D Printers are used in museums and conservation would be neat!
YES THIS, EMILY THIS !!!
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
This is a list of things I never knew I needed.
When I was a kid, I had a small platypus skull which I found on a fishing trip. The bone was sun-bleached, it had long since been cleaned out by insects and whatnot. It was probably 100% illegal to take it with me, but I was a kid, had no idea about that. That artifact of my childhood is lost, now, but one of the first things I printed was a platypus skull. What I learned in that process is museum scans are really _not great_ for printing...
The point of my story, you could print larger-than-life anatomical models and stuff!
PLEASE come to the Natural History Museum in London. Not only does it have a world class collection, but the building itself is amazing. You need to start by taking in the front of the building, with all the differently coloured stone and the amazing stone carvings inspired by the natural world.
I LOVE this museum! I have visited a few times from the Netherlands. It is my top favourite place in London. The building is so beautiful, and the exhibitions are beautiful and interesting. I definitely second this. I want to go back there now!
Thirding this recommendation, the NHM is amazing. And then if you’re in London anyway, you should also go check out the Horniman Museum as well.
Fourthing London! The building is so amazing! Even the cafe has beautiful things carved into the stonework!
I've been there when I was in London and it was great! Definitely a strong recommendation.
One of the first videos I ever showed my now husband was your wolf dissection (bold choice, yes, but he did stick around). The Brain Scoop has a special place in my heart and I am so glad you are back doing it!
For a 3D printer idea, I think you should print a raccoon for the spirit of Soon raccoon to occupy and give you some peace.
Edit: I'm so glad you're back!
That was SUCH a hit of nostalgia just from the intro music alone, I didn't realize how much I missed this
Emily, we’ve interacted a few times virtually and I need to share how important your work is to me. Hanks visit video came around during my high school years and the Brain Scoop held my hand as I navigated my college choices and career path. While I always wanted to work in a natural or cultural history museum, I got an amazing job offer to work in the education department at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte NC. If you happen to find yourself in the Queen City, I would be delighted to give you a tour and thank you in-person for the tremendous impact you have had on my life. You are such a treasure to me. Maggie.
I’m on the far end of my career as a math teacher. Thanks to Emily, I’m spending my retirement working at my local natural history museum preparing fossils, maintaining the wet herp collection, and leading public hikes through the local mountains and desert.
3D printers... One thing I have always wished museums would do is upload STL files for their collections as they scan them. I know a lot of museums have started scanning, it would be awesome to be able to 3D print an artifact to be able to handle something that you normally can't even travel to view, let alone handle. From the tools of ancient peoples, to dinosaur bones, it would be awesome to be able to view, handle, and experience these things.
As for the Bambu, they are remarkably easy to set up and use, just jump in. You will soon find yourself solving problems you didn't think you could.
They're almost certainly taking point clouds, so xyz or similar formats. There are ways of converting but they probably don't bother.
I think Smithsonian and a couple other museums have uploaded files to allow you to 3D print replicas of some of their collection
I would love this... This would also make the collections more accessible for people that are vision impaired or for kids etc
There are free stl files available online at places like africanfossils, digimorph, and morphosource. Check them out if you're interested!
hi! this is a late response, but a lot of museums have large galleries on sketchfab with downloadable models. I’m not sure if sketchfab will convert the file to an stl, but it’s easy to do with blender. if you’re interested in insects, big bee (a multi-institutional project) should be uploading a few hundred free use bee models in the next few months on bee library!
I'm so happy to see the Gross-O-Meter again!
I would love content about your native plant gardening expedition! And what you’re finding out there!
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From that first time Hank Green visited your little museum in the bowels of the university to now, I’ve loved watching your content. I’m so glad you’re back!
Emily I am so glad you are back and the Brain Scoop is yours again. You are one of the best science educators I've found and you were greatly missed. Welcome back!
+1 Well said, Briang1735
"Soon raccoon" is literally a daily phrase in our house, as the cats wait for the automated feeders go off. (Actually soon, fluff-oon)
If you're interested in art restoration, I think Baumgartner restoration is in your area and would make a fantastic collab
YEAH!
I was thinking this, too!
yes, please!
You’re one of the first creators (and people) to have gotten me thinking seriously about museum and library sciences, and now I’ve worked two years at a local library and intend to get my MLIS! So excited you’re back, and Soon Raccoon too!
Welcome back, Emily! Your art restoration collaboration idea made me think of Baumgartner Restoration right in Chicago. They have an awesome UA-cam channel and I think you two would be great together.
I think an interesting thing they could discuss would be insect's that eat art.
It is absolutely wonderful to have you and The Brain Scoop back in my feed! Yay! Welcome back. :)
I watched this channel throughout highschool, then during college I was a docent in my school's natural history museum. I KNOW that Brain Scoop played a pretty big part in me getting so excited about working and teaching with taxidermy specimens.
Hearing that you got deep into native plants is so exciting!! I'd love to see you collab with In Defense of Plants (again) or the North American Native Plant Society to talk about gardening with native plants. Restoring native ecosystems is so important and many people have space for a few natives!
You should call your friend Kyle more often.. your friends shouldn't have to be sending you questions for videos 😂
Also the subliminal messaging every time the haunting was mentioned 😂
I just thought Kyle was asking the questions on everyone's mind!!
@@thebrainscoop oh yeah for sure! I thought it was funny because I thought "I have a friend named Kyle" for the third time before realizing it was repeating ,😂
In my head, her friend Kyle is Kyle Hill... now I don't know that it's true, but that's my head canon.
Don't get me wrong, I think it was AMAZING that you got to work with the Field Museum. But my favorite videos are the ones where you just geek out about something that YOU find interesting. You are the best curiosity inspir-er when you are excited and passionate. I'm SO GLAD you get to do this again.
The Brain Scoop was one of the first channels I ever subscribed to, and seeing it revive (and that you're doing well!) fills me with nostalgia and indescribable joy.
Welcome back Emily!!! I’d LOVE to see more content on anthropology / archaeology-I am currently getting a PhD in anthropology, and am finishing up grad school (hopefully) in the spring of next year. You are such an inspiration to me and many others who want to make science accessible to the public!
Yes!!! I love anthropology and archaeology! If I get into my program I’ll definitely invite Emily to my department to visit!
I’m so glad you are back Emilie. I started watching because of Michael Aranda when I was in high school. Several of my favorite UA-cam channels from them have since moved on, but I’m happy you are back. I would love to support you, but as a newly married college student I think the most I can do is to share this channel with my wife who will be so into this content. Thank you for being inspiring. I have been encouraged to peruse the things I am passionate about by seeing your example. From one subscriber too sentimental to leave a formerly retired channel, welcome back!
UA-cam like it when you do shorts. You could make these short videos about a thing you collected or just a fun fact about a bug you found in your yard. You could even tell us about the native plants you planted.
Welcome back! I’m curious about seeing what could be learned from the facilities where they study human decomposition, like at the university of Tennessee, or Texas state.
Ooooh that's a good one! ✍🏻
Collabs with Ask a Mortician for sure...
Emily I am SO EXCITED! I work at the Peggy Notebaert nature museum and I SO hope you are able to collab with us at some point!!
I got to meet you twice back in 2015 (when I was 15 years old) at the field museum. The first time was at a bat presentation and I was so nervous I cried a little but you were so nice! And the second time was after I'd started volunteering in the playlab at the field! That experience is what led me to being here working at the nature museum today, and if it wasn't for you I don't think I would have realized how big of a love I have for museums and natural education. Thank you for all that you do, I'm so excited to see what's next!
oooooh I hear there are rumors about an upcoming rat diorama collab 👀
@@thebrainscoop RAT DIORAMA!! OMG! I don't know what that could even look like but it sounds amazing!!! Hopefully I'll see you around!! 👀 😁
Since you're taking suggestions and you mentioned your incredible native Chicago plant garden, I wonder if Joey Santore of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't would be interested in a collaboration if you reached out!
Love the dead raccoon story by the way. As a hobby I articulate animal skeletons and a big part of that is getting the skeletons clean. I prefer open burials (buckets in the woods) and I also collect samples of all the various beetles that assist in decomposition! Thanks for sharing!! 😊
Hearing about the internship put a big smile on my face. I stumbled up on this channel by chance because I was curious about how things are preserved for research, and it was fun to learn from someone about the same age as me, sharing what they were passionate about or learning. I kind of shudder to think about how old my account is, but it's always fun to see the home team score a win. Best of luck with whatever comes next!
Your friend Kyle has some great questions, lol. Can't wait to see you back in action!
After the first couple questions in a row from Kyle, I wondered if there had been limited opportunity for people to submit questions yet, and if all the questions would be from Kyle. That would have been kind of funny, like. "Hey Kyle, I want to start a questions series again, but I need questions to kick start it. Can you come up with 30 or 40 questions that sound like people who aren't you might ask?"
Emily brings me back to a time when UA-cam didn't make me feel stressed out.
Just some randon thoughts. Maybe you can get a nice framed picture of Soon raccoon and use it for / in your back drops? Or maybe you will find a freshly deceased racoon and we could have a squishy taxidermy episode and you could call that raccoon boon or something! Anyway thanks Emily great content as always! 🙂
Hell yeah 3D printing and museum stuff! Spent many years at Discovery Place working with teachers and 3D printing. One popular thing was printing topographical maps (lots of sites make it easy to generate them) and then experimenting with hydrodynamics via spray bottles and such.
I think the mascot should be Rotten Raccoon, a disembodied decaying raccoon arm. You could 3D print a model of them >:D
"It still has fleas on it"
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DUDE! You're theme song brings back nostalgia of me eating lunch in a dingy corner of my university absolutely exhausted studying for exams, cramming a sandwich in my face while watching the brain scoop. I'm so happy you're back!!!
So happy to see your bright, cheery face again and to hear your enthusiasm. Keep 'em coming.
Oh, how I've missed you!! To this day, saying "soon raccoon" is still a part of my daily vernacular - happy to see he's doing well and still loved by many!! And happy to see you're doing well, Emily. Take care, and love from Canada! XX
Emily, I am crying with joy. I don't get on youtube much any more, but you and your videos have been a gigantic source of delight and inspiration ever since the wolf specimen videos. I have to say that I am so so so so excited that you included footage of the dead raccoons you found. xD It baffles me how much fascination and love I feel for the process of decay and how warm it makes my heart when I see that other people are just as fascinated! Life perpetuates in the slime and stench and it is nasty and it is beautiful.
I'm so glad you've continued on your life path to share the joy of these natural phenomena with the world. May Soon Raccoon continue to help you find amazing discoveries. They are opportunists, after all, those trash pandas. :)
Welcome Back! You are, in no small part, partially responsible for the dead raven I have in my freezer right now. Thinking of getting it mounted/stuffed on top a buffalo skull I have kicking around. Good times!
She’s responsible for me weighing, measuring, collecting DNA, and preserving herps for the San Diego Natural History Museum.
Oh man, our family dog was dug up a few weeks after she died when I was in I think middle school. I noticed a bunch of vultures in our yard and went over to investigate. The smell was...well, of all people I'm sure Emily can imagine. Maggie didn't look like herself. Her hair was gone, her skin was like...shrink wrapped to her bones. And she was out and about and somewhat scattered around.
My father and I gathered her up and reburied her before my mom got home. We covered her with big rocks before we shoveled the dirt back on. She was a good four or five feet down, as I recall.
It's always entertaining to find a decaying mammal in your yard.
Oh but that sounds traumatic 😅
@@thebrainscoop It honestly wasn't. We had sheep and llamas and just tons of different animals my whole life. Some of them got old and needed burial, so my parents explained death and decay when I was really young. I witnessed and participated in the burial of several dead animals before this happened, from old age and disease and unhappy accident. So while finding Maggie was exceptionally gross, particularly the smell, I knew she was in the process of being returned to the nutrient cycle, which for me at least is very comforting.
I've lived in different parts of Alaska for years, and always enjoyed watching Sandhill Cranes in Fairbanks, and Homer. But sometimes they will call loudly as the sunrises right outside your house, and wake you up at 3 or 4 am.
I can't remember if I posted this before or not but your early brain scoop videos gave me the vocabulary I needed to help my kid be excited about exploring science things that are kind of gross. I got us some owl pellets to dissect and we had a great time. And I feel like you were a part of that so thank you ❤
First - I'm so, so glad you're back doing this show. I've missed it so much. Second - you should absolutely go to the bottom of the ocean. It's amazing and has so much to teach us about the way natural systems function. There is so much to see and it's all so alien and spectacular. Go. Do it!
ok but have you been there though?? I'm so scared :
I'm only seeing this video now, glad you're back and I am one of those that really miss the dead squishy things! But! About the Gothenburg museum, so funny to hear you talk about it. I have gone to it almost every year since I was a teenager when I go to the city and visit my family, it is probably the best natural history museum I've been to in Europe. The Oslo one is good yet small, the Helsinki one is really nice too! Amazing exhibits of animals in natural environments, and urban ones!
I recently went to the natural history museum in Bern Switzerland. Dublin has one too, which is free! (Irish locals call it the "Dead Zoo"
You made me want to work in a museum SO badly in my early 20s I'm now 25, I've been watching since I was in high school (wow time flies). I suffer from major indecision so picking a more "solid" career path is difficult for me, but this is definitely bringing it back 😭
My therapist had me take a career aptitude test kind of thing to figure out which way to go and the results were mostly things like teaching. I did actually have an interest in being a teacher for a while, but being a teacher in a classroom seems kind of like a nightmare to me (props to all teachers, I don't know how y'all do it). BUT a museum seems kind of like an ideal setting for me to be able to teach people while getting to learn myself.
I think it would be really interesting if you covered your museum working experience and what made you pivot from studio arts to museum studies.
A long way to say that I'm glad you're back and I cannot wait to see what you do.
I think a dermestid beetle is a fitting mascot. Maybe less fitting, but some kind of bat. Just because they're cute
Ooo, a dermestid beatle. Good idea. (Googling dermestid beetle images hoping they look cute when magnified...shoot, not really.)
I've always been a science geek/nerd but when I watch the incredible enthusiasm you have on your videos, it gives me the push to learn and seek out even more. Thank you
Glad to see you've stayed cool as hell. Proud to have crossed paths!
Me and the Mrs have had a 3D printer for nearly a year now and it has been super useful for tonnes of stuff including projects for work. But by far the most useful thing is for gifts, especially if they are personalised. 3D printing to normal people is basically magic, so I always get a great response to any gift with someone's name printed on it. In fact I currently have a couple of last minute stocking fillers printing off right now!
omg thats such a brilliant idea! my sister spells her name serri and lemma tell ya.... there's a dearth
Tyrell mueseum in Alberta
I have gone more than 5 times.you can explore the badlands around it
Good to see you!
The whale hall in Göteborgs naturhistoriska museum was renovated in 2021 so I don't see why you wouldn't be able to get a closeup experience if you asked nicely!
Also I used to live in Gothenburg for many years and I can highly recommend that you visit during spring/summer for the best weather experience.
Keep up the good work!
Wonderful to see the curiosity hasn't waned. Looking forward to wherever you're led. You mentioned going to an art museum to see about art conservation, what about going to someplace like the National Music Museum in Vermillion, SD, to see how they conserve the older instruments. A chance to connect the musician in you to the channel. The realm of natural science and acoustics are closely intertwined, especially in the older instruments.
I am a low-level Patreon supporter. I have very little extra income, but you, and just one other UA-camr out of the many I follow, are so amazing that I just feel a need to do as much as I can to support you. I wish I could do more. And I hope that other folks who can do it find a way to contribute, too.
As you went through the questions, I was reminded of all the different ways you have made amazing content. I really like thesre Ask Emily's, for one thing, and the brain-scooping, but when you get out into the field -- whether to the rain-forest or your backyard -- I think that's when my face ends up hurting the most from the constant smiling you tend to bring on.
I am SO glad you are back!
Emilyyyy!!! Wow!!! It's _so_ good to see you again! 😢 I've missed your vibrant enthusiasm immensely. Welcome back! 😊
The Museum of the North, in Fairbanks, AK is a pretty amazing museum for the regional specimens, and I hope you can make it there sometime! So happy to see you posting again!
Since you already know the people, a colab with Eons or AnimaLogic would be great.
we missed you so much, emily. thank you for coming back.
I'm glad someone asked about Soon, and happy to hear that he got to go back home.
So happy to have you back!!!!
Also the University of Victoria has its entire Zooarchaelogy catalog on file to 3D print.
So glad the show is back.
I hadn't thought about this show in ages but seeing you post new videos made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Super excited that you're back, Emily!
The first thing that comes to my mind for the 3D printer and your channel in general, I would think printing anatomical structures that are strange and interesting would be cool!
Emily! You need to go to Ithaca NY and visit The Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, the Ornithology Lab, and the Cornell University Insect Collection and then head over to the Museum of the Earth nearby. Cornell also has one of the best collections of Blaschka Glass Invertebrates.
OMG, Emily, I'm laughing SO HARD! I love your storytelling style. "Yeah, well, it turns out I gave my cats fleas." I'm so glad you're back. And congrats on not having more committee meetings. I hate office stuff.
Your enthusiasm is THE BEST motivation for just staying a curious human fooooreeeeever. I'm still planning to do my own prehistoric road trip starting from Kansas City (where I now live) and can't wait for warmer weather. I just visited Morocco at the end of November. Come to find out they are a fossil haven!!! You can just walk into the desert and find huge outcroppings of rocks jammed pack with fossils. But be sure to book a camel ride in the desert if not a full day in the desert and overnight. BTW, the Natural History museum in Denver has been my favorite place to visit since I was kid growing up there. Have you been there and how does it rank? I think it's pretty tops, at least according to my anthropology teachers years ago. Keep exploring all the things dead and not so dead. LOL
So many places tied to memories from childhood trips to visit my grandparents in Western Nebraska! I hadn't thought about Kearney and the Sandhill Cranes or Evans Plunge in years! Can't wait to see your new adventures 💚
This is an amazing holiday gift, thank you for the updates and the new video! I vote a representation of Soon Racoon-plushie, toy-as the 'new' mascot but I support whatever you decide.
I'm so glad you're back to making content. I've nerded out about your videos with a ton of my friends lol cause IT STILL HAS BRAINS ON IT! if I had one request, I'd love more dissection videos. idk the legal stuff involved with that but those were so freakin cool
I'm so glad you are back, I love "It still has brains on it" and it's constantly in my mind. Specially since I like tacos de sesos. I also appreciate the work done in museum collections so much more now
Emily just want to let you know how much I have missed your videos but especially you being you on camera. I'm so very glad you're back. And to others, yeah buy her art work. I have one of a place in southern WY that I have been to several times and she nailed it!
I recommend the Marine Science Center (Oregon State University) in Newport, Oregon. They have lots of bivalves as well as starfish and crabs. Big project on why starfish die-off along the Pacific NW.
I'm so happy you're back Emily, I have missed the Brain Scoop so much!
Emily, I love your work amd it's wonderful to see you back on camera. Thank you! Last summer I spent some time working on a small farm processing pastured chicken and I think it might be really fun and educational to show people how birds get from pasture to the freezer. Bird anatomy is very interesting!
So so glad to see you back! It's more natural than history but snake discovery in minnesota do education on reptiles. They have a bunch of their videos on their youtube channel including some on unhatched egg disections and reptile health conditions. Might be worth a look into?
So Jack Dempseys are predators. Were there other species of fish in the stream? There has to be a steady food source so what were they eating. Now I want a whole episode on just that topic!!!!!!!
Hearing this intro music again is a trip - great to hear/see!
I’ve missed the Brain Scoop so much! So happy to see it’s back!!
I was so excited to see the grossometer again! So glad you're back and I can't wait to see more videos!
Im glad you're back! I've been a fan since the wolf many years ago.
For a budget on location shoot, you could come up here to Milwaukee: The art museum is fantastic, Discovery World (a hands on science museum) is right next door. Next to that is a area dedicated to native flora. The Milwaukee County Museum isn't too far from there, either.
Plus, about 20 minutes north is the Audubon center.
Art Museums was the first thing that I hoped for when they asked what you want to do next! Super excited for that. Welcome back, and thanks always!
I wasn't expecting a surprise mention of our natural history museum here in Gothenburg! It's not a very big museum but it's a very nice one and definitely worth visiting if you get the chance. I got to go inside the blue whale once when my school class visited (in the late 80s) and it was super exciting, but it seems like they very rarely open it these days. The museum is in a big park (Slottsskogen) where you can visit some living animals as well, and it's right next to the Gothenburg Botanical Gardens, so if you come here sometime between late spring and early autumn you can make a whole day out of looking at cool plants and animals.
Anyway, It's good to see you back. Your enthusiasm has always been really infectuous and I look forward to seeing whatever you do next.
I had totally forgotten why I say soon raccoon! He's been here this whole time. Secretly living in my mind...
Welcome back, it sounds like it's been a journey, but to happy to hear from you and excited to see what you have to teach.
If you're around Austin you should go to Alveus Sanctuary. They're a non-profit private animal sanctuary set up to collaborate with streamers and youtubers to do educational outreach and they're awesome.
Yes, yes, yes! I litterally shouted when you mentioned the Malm whale. I thought of recomending it as soon as you asked for suggestions. It's such a cool thing we have here in Gothenburg.
Mascot ideas! Peatle the Beatle. Schmee the Flea. Marion Carrion. …I can do this all day.
I’ve been watching you since very near the beginning. Way before you hit big. I’m glad you are back. :)
So glad you’re back ❤
all I can say is You Are Amazing! My family has followed The Brain Scoop for years and we were sad to see it go dormant but super excited to see you emerge (like Cicadas) again - making noise of course - lol. I'm wandering over to Patreon right now!
So excited you're back! If you do ever end up in the UK, I recommend the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford - it's got a natural history half and an anthropology half (where the exhibits are arranged by function rather than culture!) in a super pretty building jam-packed with stuff. Even if it's not for #content, it's well worth a visit!
The NC Zoo is "the largest natural habitat zoo in the world," and the Greensboro Science Center is less than an hour away. Come visit!
What cool news to end 2023 on! Welcome back, Emily we can't wait to see what comes next.