If you can assemble a Lego kit, you can taxidermy or prepare a mouse for a museum collection.

That's our guest for today's episode, Emily Grassley, who got her start in science by

sowing up a mouse. So quick warning about this episode, if talking about

dissection and taxidermy and like cutting animals open and pulling out their squishy bits,

if that makes you queasy or upset, you probably want to skip this one. And maybe check

out our episode about salamanders instead. But if you think dissection is gross and cool,

definitely keep listening. Is there any option for thinking like it's perfectly not gross?

You can also just think it's a normal part of life.

I'm Lindsay. And I'm Marshall and welcome to Tumble, the show where we explore stories of science

this week. We're flipping the scripts. Instead of talking about science discoveries,

we have a story about discovering science.

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the Spotify for podcasters app. Adam Kent, the Wolf Spirit 10M asked, what made you decide that you

wanted to get into taxidermy? I really didn't decide on anything. It was more like when I walked into

the museum for the first time. It was like Charles Darwin descended from the heavens and whispered

into my ear. Go forth and scoop brains. That's Emily Grassley answering questions on her show

Brain Scoop. The Brain Scoop is one of my favorite science YouTube channels.

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