First off, I'd like to apologize for the Grossometer apparently being inaccurate in the last episode.

首先，我想先跟大家抱歉，顯然上一集的噁心表有點不太準。

If I could go back, I'd probably bump it up a little bit, but...

如果能回去的話，我大概會再把它調高一點點，但是...

You should probably be warned if there is ever a Grossometer,

如果任何影片有噁心表的話，就要有心理準備了，

be wary.

小心啊

Secondly, uh, huge thanks to NPR and Robert Krulwich this week

再來呢，非常感謝 NPR (美國全國公共廣播電台)和羅伯特·克魯維這個禮拜

for featuring me on the front page of National Public Radio's website,

把我放在全國公共廣播電台的首頁上

that was definitely a highlight of my life.

絕對是我人生的高點之一啊！

Do do do, question time!

嘟嘟嘟... 問題時間！

A lot of you guys asked:

你們很多人問：

What kind of education do you need to do this kind of thing?

你需要什麼樣的教育來做這些事情呢？

Here's the thing you guys, there is no magical academic recipe to end up in a place like this.

大家，其實沒有一種神奇的的學術配方會讓你來到這種地方。

For example, I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art,

舉例來說，我是以設計繪畫藝術學士學位畢業，

I have a painting degree.

我有個繪畫學位。

I didn't find out about the zoological museum until my senior year

我直到大學第四年才發現這個動物學博物館

and at that point it was way too late for me to change my major,

而那個時候要換主修已經太晚了

so I decided to come here, uh, as an intern

所以我決定來這，呃，當實習生，

practicing scientific illustration.

實習科學插圖

Half way through my internship, I picked up on a lot of curatorial tasks and duties in the lab

實習途中，我擔起很多策展任務和實驗室裡的職責，

and have been here ever since.

就一直做到現在了

Soo, what is your education?

所以說，你的教育是什麼？

So, in addition to having an undergraduate degree in fine arts,

除了有藝術學位之外

now I am enrolled in the Johns Hopkins University - Master of Arts in Museum Studies program,

我現在就讀於約翰·霍普金斯大學 - 博物館研究文學碩士課程，

which is primarily distance learning based so I could do all of my coursework online,

主要是遠距教學，所以我可以在線上完成我的課程，

and I'm getting my MA in museum studies.

然後拿到我的博物館研究文學碩士學位

Tumlbr user Joe2theblogs asked:

Tumlbr 用戶 Joe2theblogs 問：

As a former art student, how did you become so knowledgeable about biology?

作為前藝術系學生，你如得到這麼淵博的生物科學知識呢？

Books.

書

You have advice on how I can do this?

我也想做這種工作，能給我一些建議嗎？

I strongly encourage you guys to find a local nature center,

我強烈建議你們可以找當地的自然中心、

natural history museum, or zoological collection in which you can volunteer or intern.

自然歷史博物館、或是生物學收集館，並在裡面當志工或實習生。

Worked for me!

對我來說有用喔！

Anonymous asked: Did you know you don't bend your arms a lot?

匿名問： 你知道你都不彎你的手臂嗎？

An anonymous user asked: Why don't you put Vicks Vapor Rub underneath your nose

匿名用戶問： 如果所有東西都很難聞的話，你為什麼不在你鼻子底下擦面速力達母？

if everything smells so bad?

薄荷膏通常會打開我的氣管

Vicks tends to open up my airways,

所以除了聞到死的東西

so in addition to smelling the dead thing,

我還會同時聞到薄荷膏的味道，它並不會取代臭味。

I smell the Vicks on top of it, it doesn't replace the smell.

就跟在一坨＊上噴香水一樣

It's like spraying perfume on a piece of ****.

Twitter 用戶 Benjamin @NotTheLastZuses 問：

Twitter user Benjamin @NotTheLastZuses asked:

哪一種骨架是你得不到，但是真的很想要的？

What is one skeleton you could never get but really want?

鴨嘴獸

Twitter user Elizabeth @EBeth12345 asked:

Twitter 用戶 Elizabeth @EBeth12345 問：

Were you squeamish about this before you started?

你剛開始的時候會很容易想吐嗎？

Yes. I didn't know I was going to be preparing a specimen that day, I didn't have time to think.

是的。我不知道我要去的那一天要準備一件標本，我沒有時間能思考。

Just... scoop.

只能... 挖(scoop)。

Twitter user Rachel @braunsicle asked:

Twitter 用戶 Rachel @braunsicle 問：

Why don't you just sell some of the specimens to raise money for the collection?

你們為什麼不賣一些標本，來募集博物館需要的資金呢？

This kind of concept is generally looked down upon in the museum world,

這種想法通常會在博物館界被瞧不起

it goes against moral and ethical obligations that museums have

它違背了博物館必須要無限期

to preserving and maintaining collection's items indefinitely.

維護和保持收藏品道德和倫理義務

I don't even know how to pronounce this one, or say this,

這個我整個不知道怎麼發音，怎麼念啊？

Haley,

海莉... Twitter 用戶 Haley @HLYCNS

Twitter user Haley at @HLYCNS

CSNS？

CSNS?

喝思克呢斯克？

Hylsc-nisc?

如果你發現一隻人的拇指在狼的肚子裡的標準處理程序是什麼？

What is the protocol if you find an actual human thumb in a wolf stomach?

尖叫！

Freak out!

然後叫警察

And then call the police.

Twitter 用戶 William Wood @WillWood777 問：

Twitter user William Wood @WillWood777 asked:

我忘記你的問題是什麼了

I forgot your question.

呃...

Uhm...

你在館藏裡找到最棒的發現是？

What is the best discovery you've ever made in the collection?

我發現我們有的穿山甲那天，我留下了幸福的淚水。

The day I found out we had a pangolin in the collection, I cried tears of happiness.

Emily Brantley 在 Facebook 上想知道我們在實驗室裡有沒有曾經有過任何瘋狂的事故

Emily Brantley on Facebook wanted to know if we've ever had any crazy mishaps in the lab.

有一次，幾年前，當我還是在實驗室志工的時候，

This one time a few years ago, before I was a volunteer in the lab,

有人在一個水槽裡使高壓水柱

somebody was working on removing the brain of a wolf in a sink

去除狼的大腦

using a high pressured hose.

他沒有穿帶任何的護目鏡或面罩

This person wasn't wearing any eye protection or a face mask

正因為如此，一堆狼的腦漿直接射進他的眼睛裡。

and because of that, they ended up blasting a bunch of wolf brain matter right into their eye.

沒告訴館長或任何人，他就回家睡覺了。

Instead of telling the curator or anybody about it, they ended up just going home that night and going to bed.

當他第二天醒來後，他的眼睛整個是血絲。

When they woke up the next day, their eye was all bloodshot.

他們不得不去急診室

So they had to go to the emergency room

接受所有狂犬病疫苗和其他預防性的治療

and get all these rabies vaccines and all this other preventative treatment.

Twitter 用戶 Maria Bleitz @NeveahWinters 想知道

Twitter user Maria Bleitz @NeveahWinters is wondering

我工作最棒和最不好的部分

what is the best and worst part of my job.

我工作的最棒的部分是可以近距離接觸這些動物

The best part of my job is getting to be all upclose and personal with all of these animals

在野外它們顯然不會讓我對它們做這些事

which they obviously wouldn't let me do that to them in the wild.

我的工作中最糟糕的部分？

The worst part of my job?

分類鼩鼱

Cataloging shrews.

絕對是它！

Definitely.

很多人很好奇，如果我是一個志工，我要怎麼支付賬單之類的東西。

A lot of you guys are really curious how I pay my bills and stuff if I'm a volunteer.

有幾個不同的方式：

There're a couple different ways.

靠經濟援助直到我完成我的碩士學位

Living off of financial assistance while I finish my Master's degree,

幫蒙大拿大學做一些行銷活動

working on some marketing campaigns with the University of Montana,

但主要是通過衣服跟海報銷售啦！

but mostly through T-shirt and poster sales!

Tumblr 用戶 caribouinacave 想知道：

Tumblr user caribouinacave is wondering:

什麼時候要挖腦漿呢？ (scoop the brain)

When will brains be scooped?

快了！

It still has brains on it.

還有腦漿卡在上面