Oh, That's a Thing!

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.