The Brain Scoop

The Brain Scoop is an online video series on the topic of zoology and Taxidermy, which is spread over the platform YouTube. The first episode of Emily Graslie (* June 14, 1989 in Rapid City ) moderated broadcast appeared in January 2013, location was the Zoological Collection of the University of Montana in Missoula. As of June 2013 took over the Field Museum in Chicago, one of the world 's largest museums, the series. Graslie has since Chief Curiosity Correspondent of the facility.

Graslie studied art at the University of Montana and began in her last year there, honorary member of the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum of the University to work. This commitment she sat after her graduation in 2011 continued in full-time. At the same time she took a Master 's degree in Museum Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Cause the formation of The Brain Scoop was the collaboration with the famous video blogger Hank Green for its edutainment channel Crash Course. Then put the Green Museum and Graslie in a sequence of its channel vlogbrothers before ( Thoughts from Dead Animals, December 7, 2012). The theme and grass Read occurrence were also very popular, so that Green later offered a short time to produce its own YouTube channel with Graslie. He brought Graslie with Michael Aranda, who has since been acting as a director and cinematographer.

Already the first episode, which was published on January 14, 2013 ( The Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum ), received greater attention. It reported, among others, members of the Scientific American and a month later the National Public Radio in their official blogs. The most successful video from the first few months shows Graslie skinning a wolf ( Skinning the Wolf, February 5, 2013) and is part of a multi-part series that accompanies the entire preparation of the animal.

At the invitation of the Field Museum Graslie and Aranda filmed in April 2013 eight episodes in Chicago. Then the Musem Graslie offered a full-time job as Chief Correspondent Curiosity, which she started in June of this year. The place of production of the consignment was then relocated to Chicago.