How to Clone a Mammoth, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Aug 14, 2015 9:00 pm
1:42:48 mins

How to Clone a Mammoth (1:06) Guest: Beth Shapiro, Ph.D., Professor of Paleogenomics at the University of California Santa Cruz Molecular biologist Beth Shapiro’s lab at the University of California in Santa Cruz focuses on “ancient DNA.” She’s just published a truly fascinating book about the possibility of bringing ancient species back to life. It’s called “How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction.” Monty Python and the Holy Grail (50:56) Guest: Darl Larsen, Ph.D., Theater and Media Arts Professor at BYU Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It’s absurdly absurd. Packed with low-brow humor and farce. BYU theater and media arts professor Darl Larsen has studied it so closely that he’s prepared to make a pretty audacious claim: Monty Python and the Holy Grail is an art film.

Episode Segments

Episode Segments

How to Clone a Mammoth

50m

Guest: Beth Shapiro, Ph.D., Professor of Paleogenomics at the University of California Santa Cruz Molecular biologist Beth Shapiro’s lab at the University of California in Santa Cruz focuses on “ancient DNA.” She’s just published a truly fascinating book about the possibility of bringing ancient species back to life. It’s called “How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction.”

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

52m

Guest: Darl Larsen, Ph.D., Theater and Media Arts Professor at BYU Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It’s absurdly absurd. Packed with low-brow humor and farce. BYU theater and media arts professor Darl Larsen has studied it so closely that he’s prepared to make a pretty audacious claim: Monty Python and the Holy Grail is an art film.