Are you familiar with Emily Graslie, the woman behind The Brain Scoop who also works at Chicago’s natural history museum as a Curiosity Correspondent?

I didn’t know of her until Slog treasure MacCrocodile pointed me in her direction, and now I am pointing you in her direction. She’s funny, she’s enthusiastic, and she explores interesting questions and topics, like insects! Gems! What the pelvic gurdle of an ostrich looks like! And how to skin a wolf!

Here’s her most recent video, in which she thoughtfully addresses the weird pressures professional women face working in STEM fields (especially when working on media projects like this):

Today, I suggest you beach yourself on a couch with a turkey leg and peruse her Youtube channel.

Former Stranger news writer Cienna Madrid has been a writer in residence for Richard Hugo House, a local literary nonprofit. There, she taught fiction classes and wrote 4/5 of a book about a death-row...