I would like to see a video on equipment used for the in museum and out in the field. Not only what you use now, but what used to be use and why it became obsolete, also up and coming technologies that is helping with the studies of natural science, and lastly very old and low tech equipment that is still commonly used because nothing has surpassed them yet.
This would be amazing. How much have microscopes and dissecting scopes changed in the past 300 years? Do you still use manual, vintage microtomes? How was data recorded and accessed when the Field first opened? How have collecting techniques developed since then? DNA barcoding an molecular ecology are a fantastic new tool, but do they really make other techniques obsolete, or just complement them? Has fossil collecting changed at all in the past 300 years? What about preserving/staining techniques? We pin insects in pretty much the same way Darwin did, just with better pins (thinner, more flexible, rust-resistant). How has taxidermy improved?
Maybe she could offer it to the zombies and they'd be happier... whatever it is that still has brains on it? Unless it is that stool-thing, and it has zombie-brains on it from bashing zombies. They might not like that.
Here's why you need a girls club: I tried putting together an "everyone" club and only two girls signed up. They took one look at the room full of boys and turned around. They knew they wouldnt be comfortable here. They deserve somewhere they would be comfortable
I love your enthusiasm and it's great to have engaging science videos that I can show my ten year old daughter. She is far more scientifically minded than either of my sons and I really want to encourage her interest. I don't want her to think girls don't do science so this really hits the spot.
I love you, Emily! Your videos always fascinate me and/or bring a smile to my face. Thanks for being so enthusiastic about all the things you do and helping people learn cool things. I still remember when you were just a cool guest for one of Hank Green's videos. A lot has changed since then, but you're still incredibly cool!
All of these videos are awesome and so educational. Emily is just the perfect person to do them. Thanks for another great one. P.S. I always have to watch to the very end to hear the "it still has brains on it part."
our high school had a Women in Engineering club, but they made us get rid of it because it was "discrimination", we also had another engineering club, but they were pretty dang unwelcoming if you were female and refused to take any of your solutions
Well, an [insert group of people here]-only club is a pretty silly idea. I've been the only male in multiple art classes and I've never felt uncomfortable or considered dropping out. It's something that I'm very passionate about. Recently, a female dropped out of my Public Speaking class because she was the only female in there. I'm starting to think that females feel a need to be around other females in the workforce for some reason. It's not really the same for males. We generally don't care about that kinda stuff. It's just so irrelevant and trivial to us. As for them refusing to take any of your suggestions, perhaps you should have asked them why they felt that way. I find it highly unlikely it was because of your gender.
Cichlids are really fun yet aggressive fish. I've got at least 20 I look after every day and I love watching them live their fishy lives. One is so old he's turning from orange to white but is still a big jerk to all the others, still does mating dances, and has fought off some of the bottom feeding catfish that we have away from his holes that he digs. We have a bigger grey and red one whose eaten his fair share of goldfish too.
Great video as always! Just wanted to add my two cents on the issue of women's clubs for STEM. I think you can get all the benefits of these sorts of clubs without them being strictly gender exclusive. At our university we have a "Women in Physics" club, but they always make the point that men are welcome to participate too. I think this gives you the best of both worlds in that it provides a good environment for women (who are certainly outnumbered in physics), but leaves the door open for men who want to make a positive contribution.
When my mom was in high school her physics teacher flat out told my grandparents that my mom wouldn't do well bc she was a girl. The whole year my mom did poorly in class no matter how hard she tried and my grandparents just kept encouraging her. Also even now one of my friends is majoring in mechanical engineering and is often the only girl.
My favourite misleading name would be the lesser and greater brood mite (feeds on honey bee larvae) the misleading part is that the greater brood mite is smaller than the lesser brood mite.
I've tried to talk to my mom and sisters about science stuff while growing up and they always acted aloof and uncaring about science. I've talked to them about physics, geography, evolution and nature. I've made friends with girls too and they act pretty much the same way when I've brought up the subjects, there was only one girl I knew growing up who had those interests and she was raised in a single father home.
I hope you are young enough to be able to find more friends, male and female, that appreciate your interest in science and your other interests. Don't stop trying, those people are out there.
This seems to be a culturally as well as individually variable thing. In my high school (19769-1973) we had several girls interested in science and engineering, also when I was at college (1973-1977). In HS, there were girls in all my science and math classes right through physics, calculus and the advanced science classes. They were eager, interested, involved, studious. In college, they were in all the sciences, though a bit thin in physics. Chemistry, biology, psychology, geology and anthropology all had plenty of capable young women. My sister, graduating from HS in 1975, went on to study mechanical engineering and work as an engineer.
+Mark Holm You can't have aged backwards in time, so you must mean 19769 BC, which means you were in High School for seventeen thousand seven hundred and ninety-six years. You truly bring new meaning to the phrase "before it was cool", since the first thing that could be considered a high school came eighteen thousand one hundred and twenty-two years later, in 1647. You were in school when America was founded, the Trojan War was fought, Christianity developed, Judaism developed, Islam developed, and the Pyramids were built. In fact, your freshman year of High School predates the Industrial Revolution by roughly 18009 years, the Scientific Revolution by 18226 years, and the Agricultural Revolution, and thus humanity as we know it, by roughly 9769 years. Yes, you were in High School while Homo Sapiens was at the height of its Hunting and Gathering phase. You were in High School when Sabre-Toothed Tigers and Woolly Mammoths roamed the Earth. Yes, say what you will about +Mark Holm being a late bloomer, but hey, he only spent four years in College. Sources: history-world.org/Industrial%20Intro.htm www3.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/riseofhs.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution www.context.org/iclib/ic12/gilman3/ www.onekind.org/education/top_10_lists/extinct/
Many thanks to Hank Green for having you. You are a jewel! quick thinking, down to earth, witty, gorgeous, funny... *sigh* O:-) oh, and that last guy from 2 doors down the hall... weeeeird
I told my husband the other day that I seem to have turned some kind of official corner: I use Latin names offhand now and can't remember the common names! Some of the craziest common names I have heard of are silverfish (an insect) and chicken of the woods (a fungus, for crying out loud!) On a similar subject, NPR mistook one kind of hemlock for another in a recent story - they said Socrates died from consuming water hemlock (Cicuta maculata), but it was actually poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) that he took. Ironically both are poisonous, but with very different symptoms. Names matter a lot!
The content of these videos is amazing as always, but I sometimes find the editing a little slow paced and it distracts from the message a little. That said, keep up the awesome work!
Emily you should totally add me to you Zombie survival dream team. I'm an Archaeologist so I meet the prerequisite need to be a scientist, but I am also an Iraq War vet. I was an Infantryman and am highly trained and proficient with firearms and combat tactics. As an Archaeologist I also know how to craft stone tools which might be helpful if ammo becomes scarce.
So, suddenly I'm remembering Hank's Song About an Anglerfish, and wishing you guys could produce a few more songs that are similarly informational, catchy, and fun, on species or topics that catch your interest. :)
American Buffalo (American Bison,a real buffalo lives in subsaharan Africa or Southeast Asia,not Europe or the Americas) Mountain Lion (Closer to wildcats and domesticated cats than to lions) Strawberries (They're not berries,nor do they grow from straws) Sea Cow (not a cow,and it does not only live in seas)
Emily if it weren't for your videos I never would have gone to a small mammal prep lab at my university and because of going there I am currently employed researching truffle spore abundance in 5 species of rodent feces. Thank you so much for inspiring me and helping me achieve my dreams of getting paid to do science! :D
the crabeater seal! which (surprise!) does not eat crabs. we had a cast of a skull out with the discovery squad carts at the field! super cool teeth on those guys.
+thebrainscoop sadly, I have no ability to call but I do have a question. I have been seeing black butterflies with metallic blue wings around my house. I've caught one that happens to also have an orange body. how do I find the information I need to identify it? I think it may even be a new discovery.
Misleading names? How about the Maned Wolf! Not a wolf at all, or even very close to any other Canids, for that matter. They bark like they're roaring, and they have beautiful long legs like a deer :}
Emily, where do you get your wonderful animal-themed clothes from? I always get a little jealous because of your bug-jewelry and now this lovely bird-dress! It's super pretty
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I would like to see a video on equipment used for the in museum and out in the field. Not only what you use now, but what used to be use and why it became obsolete, also up and coming technologies that is helping with the studies of natural science, and lastly very old and low tech equipment that is still commonly used because nothing has surpassed them yet.
Yes! please, Emily, Please??
This. Please, yes, this.
This would be amazing. How much have microscopes and dissecting scopes changed in the past 300 years? Do you still use manual, vintage microtomes? How was data recorded and accessed when the Field first opened? How have collecting techniques developed since then? DNA barcoding an molecular ecology are a fantastic new tool, but do they really make other techniques obsolete, or just complement them? Has fossil collecting changed at all in the past 300 years? What about preserving/staining techniques? We pin insects in pretty much the same way Darwin did, just with better pins (thinner, more flexible, rust-resistant). How has taxidermy improved?
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That ending cracked me up - who ever go that idea deserves a gold star, a hug and an ice-cream!
"It still has brains on it" - that's what the zombie said!
Maybe she could offer it to the zombies and they'd be happier... whatever it is that still has brains on it?
Unless it is that stool-thing, and it has zombie-brains on it from bashing zombies. They might not like that.
The zombie apocalypse give a whole new meaning to "It still has brains on it".
The peacock mantis shrimp is not a peacock, nor a mantis, or a shrimp.
It is a clown though...
Here's why you need a girls club: I tried putting together an "everyone" club and only two girls signed up. They took one look at the room full of boys and turned around. They knew they wouldnt be comfortable here. They deserve somewhere they would be comfortable
Now the foot-stool has brains on it from beating that zombie with the dream team
I love your enthusiasm and it's great to have engaging science videos that I can show my ten year old daughter. She is far more scientifically minded than either of my sons and I really want to encourage her interest. I don't want her to think girls don't do science so this really hits the spot.
I'm always excited when I see a brain scoop in my subscription box. This was no exception and it did not disappoint.
Nothing will ever beat "mountain chicken"
I love you, Emily! Your videos always fascinate me and/or bring a smile to my face. Thanks for being so enthusiastic about all the things you do and helping people learn cool things. I still remember when you were just a cool guest for one of Hank Green's videos. A lot has changed since then, but you're still incredibly cool!
All of these videos are awesome and so educational. Emily is just the perfect person to do them. Thanks for another great one. P.S. I always have to watch to the very end to hear the "it still has brains on it part."
As a Nebraskan, I thank you for all Nebraskans for the embrace!
I love what you do. I'm English and retired but I love you to bits!
I died with "I work down the hall with you, you could have just asked" xD
I love your bird dress! And your bee earrings! (wait...birds and bees...heh :3) Sorry, poor sense of humor. The point is that you look super cute! X]
It was a visual pun yes thank you for getting it
this was a good one. I only looked into her eyes :-)
Emily you're a genius...holy crap I didn't even notice that pun....
I'm a simple man. When I see a new brainscoop video, I stay happy af.
You're so adorkable! I can't get enough of the Brain Scoop :')
First time I've ever seen a real phone number used in a Q&A on RUclips before.
I love this channel, wish you guys would post videos more often
Oh my god I just discovered this channel! Emily is SOOOOO awesome!!!
LOVE you for telling about museum's library!
Great episode! Thanks for putting in the time to do this. :)
Emily, you're fantastic. Keep up the awesome work.
I loved this video! You're so inspirational Emily! As a lady that loves technology and science, you're one of my favorite channels!! ^ _ ^
our high school had a Women in Engineering club, but they made us get rid of it because it was "discrimination", we also had another engineering club, but they were pretty dang unwelcoming if you were female and refused to take any of your solutions
You try giving them a jug of juice as a joke? It's a solution.
+Josh Adams nice pun, but I've since graduated.
Well, an [insert group of people here]-only club is a pretty silly idea. I've been the only male in multiple art classes and I've never felt uncomfortable or considered dropping out. It's something that I'm very passionate about.
Recently, a female dropped out of my Public Speaking class because she was the only female in there. I'm starting to think that females feel a need to be around other females in the workforce for some reason. It's not really the same for males. We generally don't care about that kinda stuff. It's just so irrelevant and trivial to us.
As for them refusing to take any of your suggestions, perhaps you should have asked them why they felt that way. I find it highly unlikely it was because of your gender.
Good. Would a men in social science club be allowed? You can't only be against discrimination when it negatively affects you.
The Bombay Duck is a fish. I think it really does live someplace around Mumbai (Bombay), though.
That hamburger helper album is straight fire. I'm not even going to hide the fact that I listened to it on repeat for hours.
Cichlids are really fun yet aggressive fish. I've got at least 20 I look after every day and I love watching them live their fishy lives. One is so old he's turning from orange to white but is still a big jerk to all the others, still does mating dances, and has fought off some of the bottom feeding catfish that we have away from his holes that he digs.
We have a bigger grey and red one whose eaten his fair share of goldfish too.
Call? How do you do that? Is there an app to call?
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Emily that hamburger helper reference was awesome. It legit blew my mind.
did you listen to that mixtape though? Idc if it was a total marketing ploy, it was genius: soundcloud.com/hamburgerhelper/sets/watch-the-stove
+thebrainscoop I listened to that mixtape for like a month straight. What ever that mixtape was, all I know is that it was absolute gold.
I love that you dropped this reference and played a clip at the end xD
I THOUGHT YOU WERE JOKING ABOUT THAT! haha this is brilliant!
So happy I'm not the only one appreciating the absolute fire that is the hamburger helper mixtape!
The mountain chicken has a pretty misleading name, as it is a frog living in the forest.
Guinea Pig. What. Why. Not a pig or from New Guinea
No one knows (seriously, I looked it up and there are like 20 theories).
Dogs are not backwards gods
maybe its from old Guinea? btw the german name is just Seapiggy
Great video as always! Just wanted to add my two cents on the issue of women's clubs for STEM. I think you can get all the benefits of these sorts of clubs without them being strictly gender exclusive. At our university we have a "Women in Physics" club, but they always make the point that men are welcome to participate too. I think this gives you the best of both worlds in that it provides a good environment for women (who are certainly outnumbered in physics), but leaves the door open for men who want to make a positive contribution.
When my mom was in high school her physics teacher flat out told my grandparents that my mom wouldn't do well bc she was a girl. The whole year my mom did poorly in class no matter how hard she tried and my grandparents just kept encouraging her. Also even now one of my friends is majoring in mechanical engineering and is often the only girl.
Aye Ayes are not pirates
Yay ! Cichlids are my favorite freshwater aquarium fish. They look like they are always smiling.
At 00:24. That old clip reminded me of Wheezy Waiter's 'Office of Administrative and Departmental Affairs'.
I live in Nebraska, and I feel embraced.
This video make me smile. I needed that. :)
are you going to do more dissection videos? I enjoy them for some reason.
My favourite misleading name would be the lesser and greater brood mite (feeds on honey bee larvae) the misleading part is that the greater brood mite is smaller than the lesser brood mite.
did you process the message audio at all to get that tone or is that the natural grunge of your answering machine???
I've tried to talk to my mom and sisters about science stuff while growing up and they always acted aloof and uncaring about science. I've talked to them about physics, geography, evolution and nature. I've made friends with girls too and they act pretty much the same way when I've brought up the subjects, there was only one girl I knew growing up who had those interests and she was raised in a single father home.
I hope you are young enough to be able to find more friends, male and female, that appreciate your interest in science and your other interests. Don't stop trying, those people are out there.
This seems to be a culturally as well as individually variable thing. In my high school (19769-1973) we had several girls interested in science and engineering, also when I was at college (1973-1977). In HS, there were girls in all my science and math classes right through physics, calculus and the advanced science classes. They were eager, interested, involved, studious. In college, they were in all the sciences, though a bit thin in physics. Chemistry, biology, psychology, geology and anthropology all had plenty of capable young women. My sister, graduating from HS in 1975, went on to study mechanical engineering and work as an engineer.
+Mark Holm
You can't have aged backwards in time, so you must mean 19769 BC, which means you were in High School for seventeen thousand seven hundred and ninety-six years. You truly bring new meaning to the phrase "before it was cool", since the first thing that could be considered a high school came eighteen thousand one hundred and twenty-two years later, in 1647. You were in school when America was founded, the Trojan War was fought, Christianity developed, Judaism developed, Islam developed, and the Pyramids were built. In fact, your freshman year of High School predates the Industrial Revolution by roughly 18009 years, the Scientific Revolution by 18226 years, and the Agricultural Revolution, and thus humanity as we know it, by roughly 9769 years. Yes, you were in High School while Homo Sapiens was at the height of its Hunting and Gathering phase. You were in High School when Sabre-Toothed Tigers and Woolly Mammoths roamed the Earth. Yes, say what you will about +Mark Holm being a late bloomer, but hey, he only spent four years in College.
Sources:
history-world.org/Industrial%20Intro.htm
www3.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/riseofhs.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution
www.context.org/iclib/ic12/gilman3/
www.onekind.org/education/top_10_lists/extinct/
+Adam Martinelli What makes you think I can't move backwards through time? ;)
Many thanks to Hank Green for having you. You are a jewel! quick thinking, down to earth, witty, gorgeous, funny... *sigh* O:-)
oh, and that last guy from 2 doors down the hall... weeeeird
The outro has never had a more appropriate context. 💀💕
I told my husband the other day that I seem to have turned some kind of official corner: I use Latin names offhand now and can't remember the common names! Some of the craziest common names I have heard of are silverfish (an insect) and chicken of the woods (a fungus, for crying out loud!) On a similar subject, NPR mistook one kind of hemlock for another in a recent story - they said Socrates died from consuming water hemlock (Cicuta maculata), but it was actually poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) that he took. Ironically both are poisonous, but with very different symptoms. Names matter a lot!
A tarantula hawk is neither a tarantula nor a hawk. It's a species of wasp with one of the most painful stings of any insect
Yay for the Biodiversity Heritage Library shoutout!
Favorite misleading common name: Nashville Warbler. Breeds in Canada, tied with American Robin for most populous bird in Ontario.
The content of these videos is amazing as always, but I sometimes find the editing a little slow paced and it distracts from the message a little. That said, keep up the awesome work!
As a Nebraskan, I appreciate that embrace
Haha, me too! Thanks for embracing our state, Emily! You're welcome to visit any time.
My favorite misnamed animal is the mountain chicken.
I don't know why, but your content makes me lol hard.
Yes haha
I just looked it up and...pFFt it's a frog?! lol
It's a doozy
I immediately went and googled what a mountain chicken was, and that is definitely not a chicken lol
Any chance you would be willing to be a guest star on TBBT?
yeah cichlids are awesome! one of the most interesting freshwater fish groups.
One of the funniest videos from the brainscoop.
Fascinating video, as always! Loved that ending! Does the zombie still have brain on it? :D
she is sooo likeable :3 thank you for being born.
Irish elk!! They were not elk and didn't only live in Ireland...they were just found in a lot of peat bogs there :)
Hamster meat can not be sold as a pork product
Those earrings... are amazing... Where do you find all these amazing jewelry things? I get a very "Ms Frizzle" feel from you.
Emily you should totally add me to you Zombie survival dream team. I'm an Archaeologist so I meet the prerequisite need to be a scientist, but I am also an Iraq War vet. I was an Infantryman and am highly trained and proficient with firearms and combat tactics. As an Archaeologist I also know how to craft stone tools which might be helpful if ammo becomes scarce.
I'd want you on my team.
So, suddenly I'm remembering Hank's Song About an Anglerfish, and wishing you guys could produce a few more songs that are similarly informational, catchy, and fun, on species or topics that catch your interest. :)
Yes! More songs like that!
Red Pandas are neither Red nor Pandas. They're orange and more closely related to racoons.
I'd like to see more archaeological material please.
I love this so much.
GAHH EMILY YOU'RE SO ADORABLE!
I can't help but dance to the theme every single time
American Buffalo (American Bison,a real buffalo lives in subsaharan Africa or Southeast Asia,not Europe or the Americas)
Mountain Lion (Closer to wildcats and domesticated cats than to lions)
Strawberries (They're not berries,nor do they grow from straws)
Sea Cow (not a cow,and it does not only live in seas)
she's so awkward and nerdy that I fell in love with her within the first minute.
Rocky Mountain Oysters is probably up there! (although it's not really an animal...)
im intrigued on the tapeworm story!! tell us more about it...hihihihi
Emily if it weren't for your videos I never would have gone to a small mammal prep lab at my university and because of going there I am currently employed researching truffle spore abundance in 5 species of rodent feces. Thank you so much for inspiring me and helping me achieve my dreams of getting paid to do science! :D
Who ya gonna call?? Emily!!
WOO CICHLIDS! Will there also be "Several Consecutive Days Dedicated to Predatory Cartilaginous Fishes" again this year? Because fish are awesome!
the crabeater seal! which (surprise!) does not eat crabs. we had a cast of a skull out with the discovery squad carts at the field! super cool teeth on those guys.
Another fantastic video but I enjoy all you do. I still wish you were my granddaughter . Many Blessings
+thebrainscoop sadly, I have no ability to call but I do have a question. I have been seeing black butterflies with metallic blue wings around my house. I've caught one that happens to also have an orange body. how do I find the information I need to identify it? I think it may even be a new discovery.
People look at me funny when I tell them I'm calling the Brainscoop hotline.
@thebrainscoop Please do a video on vaquitas!!! Please?
OMG I love your dress!
Can you tell me where it's from?
This video was awesome
Turkey! ...which is not from Turkey. And not from India either, which the Norwegian name 'Kalkun' would suggest.
What's one of your favorite exhibition in the museum and why?
Love your outfit today!
Misleading names? How about the Maned Wolf! Not a wolf at all, or even very close to any other Canids, for that matter. They bark like they're roaring, and they have beautiful long legs like a deer :}
love your dress Emily!
i love these
The musk ox is not an ox.
And somehow manages to still have brains on it.
I love this show
I kept trying to screen shot the number but it was flashing!!! Cmon!!
It's in the description
It is now, at least when I watched.
My favourite misleading common name is the Red Roman Spider, which isn't red, nor Roman, nor a spider. (Solifugidae)
Every zombie apocalypse team needs a good medic! :)
Emily, where do you get your wonderful animal-themed clothes from?
I always get a little jealous because of your bug-jewelry and now this lovely bird-dress! It's super pretty
The peanut! Not a pea, not a nut.
The Patagonian Mara cannot help you file your tax returns
Emily, you are my favorite. Get those zombies!!!
a starfish is not a fish, but why does it shine so bright?
The zombie noises reminded me about the video from Charlie McDonnell.... (Charlie's Zombie Noises, go watch it, it's gold)
I haven't been getting my Brain Scoop fix. :/