Chicago Adventure, Part Two: Catalogue Dialogue
Wherein Emily very nearly cries at least seven times. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thebrainscoop The Brain Scoop is hosted and written by: Emily Graslie Executive Producer: Hank Green...
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The Chicago Field Museum is one of the largest and most respected natural history museums in the world. Join me as we go behind the scenes! Dun dun dun! So, we get our specimens from, um, a variety of different places. Uh, I spend several weeks out of the year in East Africa living on rice and beans. Wow. Collecting rats. And, um, so these things come back here, and, uh, they're cleaned up. If I come back from Tanzania with a bunch of rats, I don't clean a rat, catalog it, put it away. Clean a rat, catalog- put it away - Yeah. Everything comes in as a group and is cleaned together, identified together, and then processed as a unit. And that happens here. In here we have the field notes. - Wow. How far do they go back? I'll show you. This act...
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The Chicago Field Museum is one of the largest and most respected natural history museums in the world. Join me as we go behind the scenes! Dun dun dun! So, we get our specimens from, um, a variety of different places. Uh, I spend several weeks out of the year in East Africa living on rice and beans. Wow. Collecting rats. And, um, so these things come back here, and, uh, they're cleaned up. If I come back from Tanzania with a bunch of rats, I don't clean a rat, catalog it, put it away. Clean a rat, catalog- put it away - Yeah. Everything comes in as a group and is cleaned together, identified together, and then processed as a unit. And that happens here. In here we have the field notes. - Wow. How far do they go back? I'll show you. This act...
