If ever there was an example of intellect making someone even more attractive, it's Alice Roberts.
Though she has ruined my "It's Dr Alice! [sigh] " by becoming a Professor as it doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
Sooo... this series was great :) I recently got back from an overseas trip to London where I saw an exhibit on Ice Age Art at the British Museum (I was both moved and speechless) and this was a fantastic bookend to it now that I'm home.
A few days before this shout (so obviously post show production) news has come out that scientists in the Arctic have discovered a mammoth frozen in Siberia that still has liquid blood and some fresh meat. The debate now rages on as to whether we go all Jurassic Park on it and try and clone one (though some think it is unlikely that an elephant host could bring it to term without some jiggling. Though who knows, "Life will find a way" - Michael Crichton ). Professor "Dr" Alice "[sigh]" says we shouldn't. Realistically I agree, I think it would be cruel, but damn if the 5 year old in me doesn't want to ride a woolly mammoth. (PETA, form an orderly queue)
The CGI of the beasts is really great (more fine work from "The Mill")
Hopefully this link will still be active in the future. http://planetsave.com/2013/05/31/woolly-mammoth-found-with-liquid-blood-still-in-it-fueling-talks-of-cloning-the-animal/
The series delves in to so much more than mammoths, and covers cave bears, sabre-tooth cats, ground sloths with claws like ginsu knives and more, and how the climate changes that ended the last ice age led to these magnificent creatures demise. Well worth a watch.
(and yes, I know the fact that I think she is attractive is a terrible way to start a review of a science series. Alas, I'm scientifically a slave to my hormones)
Review by MajorMercyFlushVIP OG 14BlockedParent2013-06-04T16:55:31Z
If ever there was an example of intellect making someone even more attractive, it's Alice Roberts.
Though she has ruined my "It's Dr Alice! [sigh] " by becoming a Professor as it doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
Sooo... this series was great :) I recently got back from an overseas trip to London where I saw an exhibit on Ice Age Art at the British Museum (I was both moved and speechless) and this was a fantastic bookend to it now that I'm home.
A few days before this shout (so obviously post show production) news has come out that scientists in the Arctic have discovered a mammoth frozen in Siberia that still has liquid blood and some fresh meat. The debate now rages on as to whether we go all Jurassic Park on it and try and clone one (though some think it is unlikely that an elephant host could bring it to term without some jiggling. Though who knows, "Life will find a way" - Michael Crichton ). Professor "Dr" Alice "[sigh]" says we shouldn't. Realistically I agree, I think it would be cruel, but damn if the 5 year old in me doesn't want to ride a woolly mammoth. (PETA, form an orderly queue)
The CGI of the beasts is really great (more fine work from "The Mill")
Hopefully this link will still be active in the future.
http://planetsave.com/2013/05/31/woolly-mammoth-found-with-liquid-blood-still-in-it-fueling-talks-of-cloning-the-animal/
The series delves in to so much more than mammoths, and covers cave bears, sabre-tooth cats, ground sloths with claws like ginsu knives and more, and how the climate changes that ended the last ice age led to these magnificent creatures demise. Well worth a watch.
(and yes, I know the fact that I think she is attractive is a terrible way to start a review of a science series. Alas, I'm scientifically a slave to my hormones)