But will there be brains on it?
October 6, 2021 10:12 AM   Subscribe

Emily Graslie, a science communicator known for The Brain Scoop who has formerly worked with the University of Montana and the Chicago Field Museum, has a new YouTube show! ART LAB employs Graslie's trademark mix of hands-on field work and artifact analysis and explores connections between art, history, and science. As part of producing the series Graslie is partnering with the Described and Captioned Media Program to include captions, descriptive audio, and full episode transcripts. DCMP is an accessibility group dedicated to providing described and captioned educational media to students who are deaf, blind, hard of hearing, visually impaired, or deaf-blind.

Episode 1 is about the human fascination with cicadas.

Episode 2 looks at microscopes, the Victorian imagination, and cell biology.

Graslie on Metafilter previously
posted by Wretch729 (6 comments total) 16 users marked this as a favorite
 
I highly recommend Grasslie's Prehistoric Road Trip which aired on PBS last summer. Check it out from your library or keep an eye on your local PBS station for it.

In a just world, Grasslie would get the funding necessary for her to travel all over the world and make episodes about dinosaurs and other science-y things with people who are as into science as she is.
posted by Constance Mirabella at 10:27 AM on October 6, 2021 [3 favorites]


She was also recently on the series "In Our Nature" on It's Okay To Be Smart. Highly recommended.
posted by Acey at 1:09 PM on October 6, 2021


Grasslie rules. Thanks for this post.
posted by lazaruslong at 1:59 PM on October 6, 2021


Thank you for this post! My son loves science videos and this one is right up his alley. I don't think I would have heard about her series otherwise, this is just the kind of link I love to visit Metafilter for.
posted by shirobara at 6:59 AM on October 7, 2021


Huge fan, me - must have picked up the Graslie trail from those 2013 MetaPrevs. What I like about her science coverage is that she doesn't have a science degree so she doesn't need to brush scurf of the shoulders of Cuvier, Darwin, Hooker & Huxley to find a place to stand. I have high hopes for her new venture: she'll find stuff out because she won't know what everyone knows to be true.
posted by BobTheScientist at 7:18 AM on October 7, 2021 [1 favorite]


I'm so glad to know she is back. Thank you!
posted by manageyourexpectations at 10:20 AM on October 7, 2021


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