STEM stuff is in the news so much lately (it even came up at our family Thanksgiving), often with futuristic technology or engineering focus. We even toss an “A” for art/aesthetics into the mix and call it STEAM. Ahhh, now our non-sciency selves feel a lot better…
Many current STEM practitioners (and I count my nascent STEAM-self among them) don’t dabble in biology, physics, or chemistry. (Making us, of course, wonder if we’re actually doing STEM much justice.)
But move over, 3D printers and LED kits. Emily Graslie is in the house.
This past weekend, when my Zite feed led me to Robert Krulwich’s NPR blog, I learned about the Hank Green-produced YouTube series The Brain Scoop, starring Emily Graslie. Begun at a Montana science museum, Graslie and her producing partner Michael Aranda are now in residence at Chicago’s Field Museum. Says Krulwich:
I’ve said it before, so I’ll say it again: Emily Graslie’s “The Brain Scoop” is one of the warmest, slyest video blogs on the web. She’s where I go to find out what museum scientists are up to — and right now she’s at the Field Museum in Chicago, where she wanders from department to department, exploring, delighting, asking questions that you and I would ask if someone gave us a free pass to gawk our way through one of the great natural history museums in the world.
(Yes, there’s actually a taxidermy tool called a brain scoop. Yes, it does what you think it does.)
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She brings a blenderful of enthusiasm, curiosity, clarity, and adventure to her videos that make biology come to life in appetizing ways (remember what you thought a brain scoop was? Yeah. That.). (Her Field Museum context will let her look beyond science at anthropology and cultural artifacts, but I’ve only seen biology episodes so far.)
Her Tumblr, Twitter feed, and video series are now on my radar after learning about her … how about yours?