The Brain Scoop: Emily Graslie's YouTube show from the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum (2012)
project history · status: last documented in 2013 (looked back on in 2025) · last event: milestone (2013-06-21) · last mentioned: 2025-12-09
Began with
Hank tours the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum with volunteer guide Emily (2012) — The 2012 Brain Scoop announcement says the show came out of Emily's museum tour, and this story is that tour of the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum with Emily.
Parts: Hank tours the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum with volunteer guide Emily (2012) · Hank asks viewers to check out and subscribe to The Brain Scoop (2012)
Told alongside: Animal Wonders: launch of Jessi Knudsen Castañeda's rescued-animal channel (2014) · Mental Floss YouTube channel, made with John and Hank (2013) · The Lizzie Bennet Diaries web series (2012)
About: The Brain Scoop, Emily Graslie, Michael Aranda, Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum, Field Museum of Natural History
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-12-21 | proposed | Hank announces that, prompted by Emily's museum tour and viewer comments, they decided to give Emily her own YouTube show, The Brain Scoop, to be produced with Michael in the new year. | Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) 00:03:01 |
| 2013-01-18 (happened 2013-01) | launched | Hank says The Brain Scoop was launched during the Carnegie Hall week (January 2013), and shows a clip from it with Emily Graslie. | Thoughts from Carnegie Hall 00:02:30 |
| 2013-02-15 | milestone | Hank reports The Brain Scoop was featured on NPR. | Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week 00:02:19 |
| 2013-06-21 | milestone | The Brain Scoop is going well and will partner with the Field Museum in Chicago. | New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News 00:00:55 |
| 2014-05-16 | looked back | 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. | The Myth of Greatness 00:02:27 |
| 2015-05-01 | looked back | Hank recounts that The Brain Scoop, created by Emily Graslie and Michael Aranda in Missoula, was acquired by the Field Museum and Emily moved there. | A $100,000 Egg and A 200M Year Old Pinecone 00:00:33 |
| 2016-10-07 | looked back | Hank recalls that a video he made with a person met at a tiny Missoula research museum led to The Brain Scoop. → refers to Thoughts from Dead Animals | Changing Our Business a Bit 00:00:42 |
| 2017-05-12 | looked back | Hank recommends The Brain Scoop: he loves it, Emily is amazing, and viewers who haven't lately should check it out. | Things That You Just Might Love 00:00:34 |
| 2025-12-09 | looked back | 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. | Hank Green, from A to Z 00:05:21 |
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2012-12-21 · Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) — announcement: 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
- 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
- 2013-06-21 · 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
- 2013-06-21 · New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News — Emily Graslie: The Field Museum holds one of the largest and most diverse collections in the world, 25 million artifacts, against 24,000 at her current museum. — 00:00:55
- 2013-06-21 · New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News — Emily Graslie: A specimen ('he') from her current collection will travel with her on temporary loan to the Field Museum, riding shotgun. (playful) — 00:01:22
- 2015-05-01 · A $100,000 Egg and A 200M Year Old Pinecone — Hank: Just before the tour, healthy and happy, Hank visited Emily Graslie at the Field Museum in Chicago for a behind-the-scenes tour of one of the biggest natural history museums in the world. — 00:00:23
- 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
- 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