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The Brain Scoop

channel · in 13 videos (2012–2025)

It launched at the start of 2013 and that year partnered with Chicago's Field Museum, which took it over as Emily moved there to work full time. John later named it among the shows Hank helped produce.

Videos by year: 2012: 1 · 2013: 7 · 2014: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2025: 1

Also known as: TheBrainScoop, Brain Scoop

Threads

Also named in the threads: Crash Course: launch of the brothers' educational channel (2011) · Hank tours the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum with volunteer guide Emily (2012) · Mental Floss YouTube channel, made with John and Hank (2013) · Animal Wonders: launch of Jessi Knudsen Castañeda's rescued-animal channel (2014)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Sexplanations (2) · Crash Course (5) · online advertising (2) · DFTBA Records (3) · SciShow (2) · Missoula, Montana (2) · VidCon (2) · YouTube (3)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2012

  • 2012-12-21 · Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) — announcement: Hank: After meeting Emily at the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum and seeing her enthusiasm, ease on camera and knowledge, and after many viewer comments asking for it, they decided to give her her own YouTube show. — 00:03:01
    • Hank announces that in the new year Emily and Michael will produce a new show, The Brain Scoop, out of the museum. — 00:03:30
    • Hank asks viewers to check out and subscribe to The Brain Scoop at youtube.com/thebrainscoop. — 00:03:30

2013

  • 2013-01-18 · Thoughts from Carnegie Hall — announcement: Hank says that while all this was going on they were also launching The Brain Scoop, and points viewers to youtube.com/thebrainscoop. — 00:02:30
  • 2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — Hank: The Brain Scoop was featured on NPR. — 00:02:19
  • 2013-03-15 · Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes — Hank objects that a project like the Brain Scoop, with 50,000 dedicated community members, still cannot pay for itself, because advertising is not the right model; he doesn't even like advertising. (hedged) — 00:02:40
  • 2013-06-21 · New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News — announcement: Hank writes that with The Brain Scoop's partnership with Chicago's Field Museum, Emily will move there, work at the museum full time and keep producing The Brain Scoop with them; he is sad to see her go but very excited for her next step. — video description
    • Emily Graslie: The Brain Scoop is going "the best" and will partner with the Field Museum in Chicago. — 00:00:55
  • 2013-09-03 · Bigger Pizzas: A Capitalist Case for Health Care Reform — John: freed from saving every dollar against bankruptcy, Hank could invest in DFTBA Records, VidCon, the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Crash Course, SciShow, the Foundation to Decrease World Suck and more; none could have happened without publicly subsidized health insurance. — 00:02:55
  • …and 3 statements more in 2013 — all statements of 2013

Also named in: Caviar Brownies - The Second Annual Hungry Games

2014

  • 2014-05-16 · The Myth of Greatness — Hank: Asked why so much interesting happens in small Missoula (shows with Emily Graslie, Lindsey Doe, now Jessi), Hank says interesting things happen everywhere: not magical places or people, just people who found their passion. — 00:02:27

2015

  • 2015-05-01 · A $100,000 Egg and A 200M Year Old Pinecone — Hank says Emily Graslie hosts The Brain Scoop, which she and Michael Aranda created in Missoula; the Field Museum then acquired it and she moved there, which was sad. — 00:00:29
    • Hank shows Emily holding a youtube.com/brainscoop sign and asks viewers to click on it and subscribe. — 00:03:51
  • …and 1 statement more in 2015 — all statements of 2015

2016

  • 2016-10-07 · Changing Our Business a Bit — Hank says a video with someone he met at a tiny Missoula research museum led to The Brain Scoop, and their French Revolution and circulatory-system videos led to Crash Course. — 00:00:42

2017

  • 2017-05-12 · Things That You Just Might Love — recommendation: Hank recommends The Brain Scoop: he loves it, Emily is amazing, and viewers who haven't lately should check it out. — 00:00:34

2025

  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John: For Y, YouTube, John says he hasn't mentioned half the shows Hank helped produce, such as PBS Eons, Animal Wonders, Brain Scoop and Mental Floss. — 00:05:21