A dead raccoon gave me fleas 🤦🏼♀️ || Ask Emily 2023
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- It's been a long 3 years but I'm so happy to be back!!
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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!
I'm so happy to see the Gross-O-Meter again!
"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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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 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
I would love content about your native plant gardening expedition! And what you’re finding out there!
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That was SUCH a hit of nostalgia just from the intro music alone, I didn't realize how much I missed this
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!
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.
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!
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!
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?"
RUclips 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, Emily! Your art restoration collaboration idea made me think of Baumgartner Restoration right in Chicago. They have an awesome RUclips 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. :)
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!
I had totally forgotten why I say soon raccoon! He's been here this whole time. Secretly living in my mind...
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"
Seconded!
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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!
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...
Yup, that's probably how they got fleas. I have encountered many raccoons, and not a single one was free of fleas. Although usually fleas leave an animal soon after it dies, but there were probably some stragglers.
But indoor cats can also get fleas from mice, so make sure you don't have any rodent visitors.
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.
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!!!!!!!
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!
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! 🙂
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 RUclips 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!
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!! 👀 😁
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!
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.
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.
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!! 😊
Since you already know the people, a colab with Eons or AnimaLogic would be great.
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.
"Soon raccoon" is literally a daily phrase in our house, as the cats wait for the automated feeders go off. (Actually soon, fluff-oon)
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
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.
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.
Emily brings me back to a time when RUclips didn't make me feel stressed out.
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!
I'm so glad you are back. Finding a racoon half way up a tree...Only you. LOL! And glad you did!
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
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!!!
As a wildlife biologist and bioacoustician (someone who listens to a lot of animal sounds) I can confirm: Sandhills have amazing dinosaur calls. ❤️❤️
I hope you and Hank green or sci show and do another Colab again
I'm so excited to see you back! Can't want to see what's coming!
So happy to see your bright, cheery face again and to hear your enthusiasm. Keep 'em coming.
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....
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"
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 ❤
Thanks Kyle for asking all the questions! I'm super excited for more dissection videos and the grossometor! As a kid watching you and Anna be badass scientists who weren't afraid to play with dead things was sooooo awesome. Zebra bits is still one of my all time favorites RUclips videos! So happy you're back.
Soo glad you’re back! So much looking forward to any and all of your plans for future videos!
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.
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'm not usually a comment-leaver, but so very randomly today while riding on the city bus, I was like "I hope Emily Graslie is having a great day. I wonder what she's up to!" and lo and behold, you're back! What a treat!
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 can’t believe I got through this episode so glad you’re back!
Excited to follow along with all these great ideas. Awesome to have you back Emily!
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!
I'm so happy you're back Emily, I have missed the Brain Scoop so much!
Ahhhh, so glad you’re back!! Can’t wait to follow all the new adventures!
I missed your vids so much! Good to have you back!
I was having a pretty crummy day but you make me so happy!!! So excited to have you back, love your content 🎉❤
Big fan. Glad you're back. Can't wait to see what comes next!
So excited to see you back!!!
Excited to hear what you've been up to, looking forward to the new year with the brain scoop back!
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. :)
Emilyyyy!!! Wow!!! It's _so_ good to see you again! 😢 I've missed your vibrant enthusiasm immensely. Welcome back! 😊
I was so excited to see the grossometer again! So glad you're back and I can't wait to see more videos!
This is great news! Welcome back Em!
I‘m so glad that you are back! Missed the content and the enticing enthusiasm for topics I otherwise never engage with. Brain Scoop represents golden RUclips days for me and hopefully will do so again. The best thing is seeing that you‘ve already got more new content up. 😍
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
Re: talking to painting conservators -- you should talk to Baumgartner Restoration! He's in Chicago too, even, IIRC.
so glad you are back!!
I am a low-level Patreon supporter. I have very little extra income, but you, and just one other RUclipsr 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!
There you go, the new mascots are the two ghost racoons
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!!! What the heck, best almost christmas ever
Glad you are back!
I'm so excited in anticipation of the book video
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’m so happy you’re back
So glad you’re back ❤
So VERY glad that you're back Emily! ❤
I missed the absolutely hilariously unhinged dead animal stories 😂 so good to have you back!
I’ve missed the Brain Scoop so much! So happy to see it’s back!!
I have followed you from just about the beginning, and I am super happy to see you back!! I have missed The Brain Scoop and your bubbly happy journey of learning and sharing knowledge!! Hank and John definitely made a great choice many years ago!!
Glad to see you back at it again! Lookin' forward to the book rec vid, low key.
OK but seriously, what if the new show mascot was the Cicada? Soon Cicada. Because of how the channel went to sleep for a while, and is now awake again!
Emily I am just so stinking geeked to see you back!! I also absolutely love your art, I would have bought prints of everything, but I've had a rough few years financially. It really inspired me to make more art.