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The Brain Scoop

The Brain Scoop

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Host Emily Graslie, Chief Curiosity Correspondent at The Field Museum, explores the many collections at the museum. Each episode provides a behind-the-scenes look at research, species preservation, and new scientific developments. Experts in various scientific fields discuss their fieldwork and share stories about their collections.

Person holding a silvery rock with geometric chunks on top and white and silver crystalline structures on the bottom. Caption: So this one looks like pyrite, but it's called arsenopyrite.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 50
9 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Drawer containing thin, preserved cross sections of the human body. Caption: looking into the body, like you would an x-ray.
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Episode 51
14 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white photos of a Native American woman and man wearing medals around their necks. Caption. Like currency used to purchase loyalty.
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Episode 52
10 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person holding a fossil of a spiral shaped animal. Caption: Hildoceras bifrons is an extinct species of ammonite
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Episode 53
5 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of the front half of an ant. Camponotus nigriceps. Caption: They bore through wood, but don't eat it.
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Episode 54
7 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Two people looking at a computer screen. Caption: who has researched various aspects of hominid evolution.
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Episode 55
9 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person standing next to a platform with two taxidermized elephants. Caption: (Emily Graslie) Carl and Delia Akeley's Fighting African Elephants
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Episode 56
6 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Woman in glasses smiles at camera. She stands in the doorway of a room lined with old bookcases that are full of books and animal statues. Caption. As long as we've had curiosity.
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Episode 57
9 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of large mammals with curving tusks. Caption: and many of his paintings hung with the articulated skeletons
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Episode 58
8 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person sitting in the bow of a canoe that is butted up against a riverbank. Dr. Lesley De Souza. Caption: She's a conversation scientist and ichthyologist.
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Episode 59
6 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A tock is placed on a table. In a close up, Emily Graslie halds the rock in her hand. Caption: I'm gonna go with, this is not a meterorite.
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Episode 60
13 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Emily Graslie is seated at her desk with the table lamps on. Caption: Field work is a great cover for gathering intelligence.
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Episode 61
1 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Litchens are found on a rusty car door. Caption: What caught their attention was the abundance of lichens,
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Episode 62
1 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
An illustration of carbon emitted from factories. Caption: Black carbon was spewed into the air from coal factories.
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Episode 63
1 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Specimens of worms are stacked in bottled jars. On screen text, 427,000 specimens. Caption: Philips, we have at least 427,000 specimens of worms,
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Episode 64
8 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
The skull of the bottleneck dolphins is displayed on a table. Caption: Bottlenose dolphins have echolocation as well,
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Episode 65
10 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A large ship is in the water piping fossil fuels. An expanded view from the ship depicts a man researching in a lab setup. Caption: What happens over the last 70 million years.
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Episode 66
12 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A photograph of Cetti's Warbler and its egg which measures 1 centimeter. On screen text, Cetti's Warbler, Cettia cetti. Caption: This is a Cetti's warbler from Southern Europe.
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Episode 67
12 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A man holds a transparent lid of a decorated container. Caption: That's actually quartz.
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Episode 68
13 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A pencil sketch of a fish with wing like fins, and a tail. On screen text, Jenny Hanivers. Caption: and became known as Jenny Hannivers,
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Episode 69
1 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A photo of a bird. An inner line is drawn tracing the shape of the bird's circular head. The line extends along the beak.
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Episode 70
10 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A diagram compares the population of the false water cobra and the cane toad. The population of poisonous cane toad is higher than that of the immune false water cobra.
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Episode 71
6 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A diagram titled, ghost lineage, shows cars of different ages.
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Episode 72
12 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white photo of a man standing in profile. He looks down at a notecard held in his hand. Title card reads, "Carl Cotton, A Natural Talent."
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Episode 73
9 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: The Brain Scoop: Vienna's Natural History Museum Tour
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Episode 2
8 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: The Brain Scoop: Rose Pest Solutions Tour
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Episode 3
22 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: The Brain Scoop: Why Were Ancient Egyptians Obsessed With Cats?
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Episode 5
14 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: The Brain Scoop: Rat Dissection--The Cutest Parts Are on the Outside
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Episode 6
46 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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