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The Brain Scoop: Communicating Science Through Museums and YouTube

  • January 15, 2016
  • 8:00 PM
  • Fermilab, Batavia
The Brain Scoop: 
Communicating Science Through Museums and YouTube
Emily Graslie, Chief Curiousity Correspondent, The Field Museum

Tickets - $7  Click here for complete details.


YouTube sees more than 1 billion unique visitors to its website every month. It's impossible to ignore a significant percentage of the world's population congregating around an aggregate of online videos, but are people watching more than just music and cat videos?


The Brain Scoop is an educational YouTube channel based at The Field Museum in Chicago that aims to bring its global audience behind the closed doors of the museum's collection. The Field houses more than 26 million specimens and artifacts within its stores, but these are only a fraction of the natural world's treasures. The stories of researchers and their work exceed the capacity of any general on-site attendee. Join Emily Graslie as she discusses how the Museum uses new digital media to expand the outreach and impact of its scientists' ongoing research.

Emily Graslie's relationship with science began as an internship with The University of Montana Zoological Museum while earning her BFA in painting. What started off as a means to practice scientific illustration developed into a love of skeletal preparation and an interest in the inner workings of natural history museums. In January of 2013, Graslie and YouTube educator Hank Green launched a YouTube channel, The Brain Scoop, which aims to share the wonderful inner and outer workings of natural history museums. Graslie now hosts the show at The Field Museum in Chicago and is their first-ever Chief Curiosity Correspondent, where she and producer Tom McNamara use a variety of new and digital media to share the Field's stories with passionate learners from all over the world.


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