It's been a hot minute since I checked out a museum-- like an entire year since my La Brea Tar Pits videos, which apparently non-zero little girls are watching online??? Anyhow, come join me as I check out NHM Commons, the newest wing at the Natural History Museum!

Featured in This Video

• NHM Commons⁽ᵃ⁾ at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
• Community Plaza⁽ᵃ⁾
  • More about the bedrock mortars⁽ᵃ⁾
  • And more about “the Path of Water⁽ᵃ⁾”
• A little girl recognizing me
  • And also her friend pushing her into talking to me, if you look in the reflections on the glass at 2:53
• My literal worst-case scenario anxiety nightmare: public speaking
• Gnatalie⁽ᵃ⁾
  • Me failing to pronounce her “diplodocidae” for 20 minutes because of this one YouTube video I watched as a child
• LA History: A Mexican Perspective⁽ᵃ⁾
• The museum staff pulling Alan fucking Grant out from the dinosaur lab to come speak to me

Some Non-English Vocabulary

• “Tongva” (Wikipedia)
• “aweeshkore”
• “Tovaangar” (Wikipedia)
• “Yaanga” (Wikipedia)
• “Paayme Paxaayt” (Wikipedia)
• “tuna” (Wikipedia)
• “Toongvet”
• “Totoongvetam”

Alternate Titles

• Lety Does the NHM Commons at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Chapters

0:00 Intro 2:35 Community Plaza 7:43 Intro (Cont.) 8:46 Gnatalie 10:56 Gnatalie (Kiosk) 12:23 LA History: A Mexican Perspective 14:30 LA History: A Mexican Perspective (Kiosk) 18:50 LA History: A Mexican Perspective (Cont.) 19:12 Doing Science Better, Together 21:47 Outro 23:13 Gnatalie (Cont.)