Joya and Jeff watched Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion"! Topics include contagiousness in general, history's craziest pandemics, the autism/vaccine link, mass hysterias and the Great Stink!
Joya and Jeff watched John Carpenter's "Escape From New York"! Topics include walled in cities, escapes from Alcatraz, crime in New York, escape pods and the real use for eyepatches!
Joya and Jeff watched the 1978 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"! Topics include spores, zombie fungi, Capgras delusion, why scary sounds are scary, killer bees and plants that like music!
Joya and Jeff watched the 1982 movie "The Thing"! Topics include what's at the south pole, panspermia, cryogenics, expeditions into the arctic and ancient flame throwers!
Joya and Jeff watched the 1990 film "Flatliners"! Topics include near death experiences, being buried alive, early days of emergency medicine and the 21 grams myth!
Joya and Jeff watched the 1999 movie Galaxy Quest! Topics include Area 51, anal probes, beryllium spheres in the Manhattan project, and breathing liquids!
Joya and Jeff watched the 1990 movie "Total Recall"! Topics include colonizing Mars, selectively removing memories, the uncanny valley, and the color blue!
Joya and Jeff watched David Cronenberg's "The Fly"! Topics include how gross flies are, teleportation, the drug krokodil and making a nuke in your garage!
Jeff and Joya watched the movie Virtuosity! Topics include Playstation VR, nanotechnology, moving atoms with microscopes, quantum mechanics, upcycling and more!
Joya and Jeff watched the 1992 movie "Lawnmower Man"! Topics include psychic mediums, living in a simulation, Nintendo's Virtual Boy, and what might happen if we could enhance our brains!
Joya and Jeff watched the movie "Looper"! Topics include how memories work, past life regression therapy, and what would you say if you met your younger self?
Jeff and Joya watched the 1995 movie, "The Net"! Topics include what level of government transparency is reasonable, the dark web, Yahoo! data hacks and lifting fingerprints from facebook photos!
Joya and Jeff watched the science fiction classic Alien! Topics include acid blood, self destruct mechanisms and an insect that bores into you to lay eggs inside!
This week Jeff and Joya watched Contact! Topics include the Voyager golden record, SETI, METI, the Drake equation, and a possible extra terrestrial broadcast known as the "Wow!" signal!
Joya and Jeff watched the movie Splice! Topics include spontaneous sex changes in fish, staying young by manipulating DNA, and growing human organs inside of pigs!
This week, Joya and Jeff discuss the movie Gattaca! Subjects include predicting death, how our genes influence who we pick as friends, editing our DNA and the creation of the first man made living organism!
This week, Joya and Jeff watch the movie Robocop! Topics include mall robits, exoskeletons, corporate ownership of people and implanting wifi chips in our fingers!
Jeff and Joya discuss the movie Minority Report! Topics include gizmos, targeted advertising, privacy invasive policing and the coolest laser tag you've ever played!
Joya and Jeff discuss the movie "Sunshine" (you do not need to have seen the movie to listen). Topics include fusion power, sensory deprivation tanks, solar flares, and what happens to your body in space. This episode was recorded three days after the election, so nerves were a little frayed.
Joya and Jeff discuss the movie Interstellar. Topics include wormholes, humanity's trial and error, meat grown in a lab, and the end of the Earth! Plus a ton of other cool shit!
On this episode of No, But That's A Thing, Jeff and Joya discuss the movie Her, topics include whether tech connects us or divides us, online "dating products", and whether we're the lessons our exes were waiting for.
On the first episode of No, But That's A Thing, Joya and Jeff discuss Ex Machina. Topics include Turing tests, why we want robots to understand us, chatbots, and whether a sex robot should want to have sex with us.
