Emily Graslie Curates a World of Wonder

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Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Science communication superhero Emily Graslie shares how a pair of severed wolf heads helped her fall in love with science, about the road trip she took back to the beginning of time, and why she’s now looking for wonder in her own backyard. Learn more about Emily Graslie (and watch her bug videos!): http://www.emilygraslie.com/

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0:00.0	This is where we put stuff when we want to get it clean.
0:05.4	This is Emily Grassley.
0:06.6	It is a colony full of flesh eating beetles, and it's normally the larva that will eat
0:12.0	all of it.
0:13.0	The adults really don't eat anything.
0:14.5	They basically just have sex and party in here all the time.
0:17.5	Seriously, if you want to watch an orgy on campus, it is in here.
0:21.9	Emily is a sort of science communication superhero.
0:25.4	She was the first ever chief curiosity correspondent at the Field Museum in Chicago.
0:31.0	People have called her a modern day Miss Frizzle.
0:34.6	And like a lot of Emily's fans, I started watching her YouTube videos back in 2012.
0:40.0	Hi, I'm Emily Grassley, chief curiosity correspondent for the Field Museum here in
0:44.2	Chicago and host of the Brain Scoop.
0:46.8	What's the brain?
0:47.8	She tells stories about everything from rocks to snakes to bones to taxidermy all in
0:54.2	a way that captures how weird and funny and interesting science is.
1:00.6	Also sometimes extremely gross, and she revels in all of it.
1:05.1	It feels like two solid masses, like gooey, like jello masses.
1:09.1	Oh, god.
1:10.1	This might be the first time that I throw up on the Brain Scoop.
1:12.5	I'm not wearing gloves.
1:14.2	We're pretty excited to talk to Emily today.
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