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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!
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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 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!
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 ,😂
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.
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.
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?"
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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!!!!!!!
I lived in Gothenburg Sweden for 10 years and the natural history museum was basically my second home. I’ve donated loads of reptiles & amphibians to them
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!! 😊
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! 🙂
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.
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!
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.
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!
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 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 ❤
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!
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 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.
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
Having been to the Gothenburg Natural History Museum: YES! GO! Not just for the whale, but the whole vibe was great. When you do make it here to Sweden, I would heartily recommend visiting the Stockholm Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet). Normally, I would. But it's currently closed after it was found that there's a risk the ceilings might cave in. I've been there dozens of times. My kids have been there with preschool. but.... yeah.
06:58 nearly spit out my tea, ahahaha. If you're going to cosplay as walter white, then I suggest that the new spirit animal of this channel HAS to be a roadrunner, I mean come on :D
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!
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.
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.
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!
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!!!
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!
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.
As someone in the public library sphere I think there’s untapped appeal to the behind the scenes of a regular public library. Not so much a sciences thing but it could be fun?
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!
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.
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
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.
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!
In this day and age there are so many other UA-cam creators doing high quality, varied content! It would be great to see collabs pop up in here, any of them!
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 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. :)
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 bet the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee would love to show you around! The elephants don't like to be gawked at up close, but the whole operation they have out there is fascinating, they have some interesting artifacts and teeth etc, and part of a David Attenborough documentary was filmed there a few years ago.
Oooh I’ve seen 3d printing work really well for replicas of artifacts and animal bones/skulls; the teaching collection for my universities arch department is primarily replicas made there Also as an archaeology grad student, there are loads of cool stuff scholars are doing recreating past human diet, mummy microbiomes, etc that could be neat collab ideas.
I don't have any connections but two places I can think of that are near me (in the Australian sense) are the Queensland Museum, specifically their site at South Bank in Brisbane, and the University of Queensland which has several smaller museums it looks after including a physics museum (home of the famous pitch drop experiment), an anthropology museum with the largest collection of ethnographic materials at a university in Australia, the Integrated Pathology Learning Centre which has a collection of specimens and the Marks-Hirschfeld Museum of Medical History. The Queensland Museum and UQ are both located in Brisbane so you could hit both in the same trip over a couple of days. Other Australian museums worth looking into are the Australian Museum in Sydney and the National Museum in Canberra.
3-D Printer ideas: @Oltoir mentioned tectonic plates. Riffing off of that, has anyone ever tried using heat and/or water and/or solvents to soften and melt parts of 3-D printed geologic structures, then use that to demonstrate miniature working geologic processes, like batholith emplacements or orogenies or subduction zones? Sounds difficult but unique if you could pull it off. Unimportant humorous idea - Can you print more on to a piece later? It would be funny to have the next UA-cam subscribers count plaque in the background, slowly building until you get the next real one. Are there any cases where 3-d printed natural shapes could help make an artificial piece of habitat, like a burrow or part of a burrow, but with room for an experiment or a camera in it?
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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.
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
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!
I'm so happy to see the Gross-O-Meter again!
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!
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!
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.
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
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!
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 !!!
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This is a list of things I never knew I needed.
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!
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.
"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.
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!
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.
That was SUCH a hit of nostalgia just from the intro music alone, I didn't realize how much I missed this
"Soon raccoon" is literally a daily phrase in our house, as the cats wait for the automated feeders go off. (Actually soon, fluff-oon)
I would love content about your native plant gardening expedition! And what you’re finding out there!
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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!
It is absolutely wonderful to have you and The Brain Scoop back in my feed! Yay! Welcome back. :)
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 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!! 👀 😁
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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...
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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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.
Tyrell mueseum in Alberta
I have gone more than 5 times.you can explore the badlands around it
I really thought you were saying "Mom Whale" until I saw the lower third about it
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!
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!
Since you already know the people, a colab with Eons or AnimaLogic would be great.
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.
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!
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!!!!!!!
I lived in Gothenburg Sweden for 10 years and the natural history museum was basically my second home. I’ve donated loads of reptiles & amphibians to them
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!! 😊
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! 🙂
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.
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.
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.
I had totally forgotten why I say soon raccoon! He's been here this whole time. Secretly living in my mind...
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!
So glad the show is back.
Re: talking to painting conservators -- you should talk to Baumgartner Restoration! He's in Chicago too, even, IIRC.
So happy to see your bright, cheery face again and to hear your enthusiasm. Keep 'em coming.
When she repeatedly mentioned Her Friend Kyle, I thought of Philomena Cunk’s “my mate Paul”.
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 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 ❤
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!
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 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 recently went to the natural history museum in Bern Switzerland. Dublin has one too, which is free! (Irish locals call it the "Dead Zoo"
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
Having been to the Gothenburg Natural History Museum: YES! GO! Not just for the whale, but the whole vibe was great.
When you do make it here to Sweden, I would heartily recommend visiting the Stockholm Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet). Normally, I would. But it's currently closed after it was found that there's a risk the ceilings might cave in. I've been there dozens of times. My kids have been there with preschool. but.... yeah.
WHAT???? For how long? I was planing to travel to Stockholm in April specifically for this museum and then travel on to Gotland....
Emilyyyy!!! Wow!!! It's _so_ good to see you again! 😢 I've missed your vibrant enthusiasm immensely. Welcome back! 😊
06:58 nearly spit out my tea, ahahaha. If you're going to cosplay as walter white, then I suggest that the new spirit animal of this channel HAS to be a roadrunner, I mean come on :D
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!
I think you need an "Again Armadillo"
As a wildlife biologist and bioacoustician (someone who listens to a lot of animal sounds) I can confirm: Sandhills have amazing dinosaur calls. ❤️❤️
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 hope you and Hank green or sci show and do another Colab again
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.
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!
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!!!
NPR's Science Friday had a segment on how they now believe that T-Rex had lips, so how about a 3-D of a T-Rex with Rolling Stone lips?
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
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.
As someone in the public library sphere I think there’s untapped appeal to the behind the scenes of a regular public library. Not so much a sciences thing but it could be fun?
Welcome back Emily! Maybe the new mascot for the channel could be a triceratops?
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!
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.
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
So glad you’re back ❤
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.
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 :
In this day and age there are so many other UA-cam creators doing high quality, varied content! It would be great to see collabs pop up in here, any of them!
I'm glad someone asked about Soon, and happy to hear that he got to go back home.
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.
wohoo Toronto! Would love to see a collab with Danielle. After the Brain Scoop went AWOL Animalogic was my replacement!
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. :)
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!
For 3-d printing, check out NASA's 3d printing resources. For a mascot, how about a carrion beetle? Or the GHOST of Soon Raccoon?
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!
3d print skeletons? Maybe a 🦝 ?
I bet the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee would love to show you around! The elephants don't like to be gawked at up close, but the whole operation they have out there is fascinating, they have some interesting artifacts and teeth etc, and part of a David Attenborough documentary was filmed there a few years ago.
So happy to have you back!!!!
Also the University of Victoria has its entire Zooarchaelogy catalog on file to 3D print.
You should do a collaboration with Julian at Baumgartner Restoration. I love his restoration videos!
Oooh I’ve seen 3d printing work really well for replicas of artifacts and animal bones/skulls; the teaching collection for my universities arch department is primarily replicas made there
Also as an archaeology grad student, there are loads of cool stuff scholars are doing recreating past human diet, mummy microbiomes, etc that could be neat collab ideas.
I was having a pretty crummy day but you make me so happy!!! So excited to have you back, love your content 🎉❤
I don't have any connections but two places I can think of that are near me (in the Australian sense) are the Queensland Museum, specifically their site at South Bank in Brisbane, and the University of Queensland which has several smaller museums it looks after including a physics museum (home of the famous pitch drop experiment), an anthropology museum with the largest collection of ethnographic materials at a university in Australia, the Integrated Pathology Learning Centre which has a collection of specimens and the Marks-Hirschfeld Museum of Medical History. The Queensland Museum and UQ are both located in Brisbane so you could hit both in the same trip over a couple of days.
Other Australian museums worth looking into are the Australian Museum in Sydney and the National Museum in Canberra.
3-D Printer ideas:
@Oltoir mentioned tectonic plates. Riffing off of that, has anyone ever tried using heat and/or water and/or solvents to soften and melt parts of 3-D printed geologic structures, then use that to demonstrate miniature working geologic processes, like batholith emplacements or orogenies or subduction zones? Sounds difficult but unique if you could pull it off.
Unimportant humorous idea - Can you print more on to a piece later? It would be funny to have the next UA-cam subscribers count plaque in the background, slowly building until you get the next real one.
Are there any cases where 3-d printed natural shapes could help make an artificial piece of habitat, like a burrow or part of a burrow, but with room for an experiment or a camera in it?