The true test of technology isn't what it can do, it's what it can't do. Teja saw a slick advertisement for the new app Count This. Now he and Barbara are on a quest to have the app count everything in their house. Where will it succeed or fail? Will this new technology save them the pain of having to count all of the grapes in the fruit drawer or from confusion when sorting their socks? Tune in and find out!

This is the app we were playing with in the episode - Count this. Try it out for yourself and let us know how it goes!

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Teja studied cinema. Barbara did not. So when they decided it was time to decypher the volumenous symbolism in the movie Blade Runner, Barbara started packing to move off-world. Drenched in sci-fi, religious, and film noir references the movie left them both looking for an umbrella. And they still have no clue as to where the dove came from.

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It was supposed to be a fun afternoon out, to see the Imagine Van Gogh exhibition, but instead turned into a three-month wait. Yup! Barbara missed the invisible gorilla when buying the tickets. How could this happen, you ask? Join us and we'll tell you all about how our brain's selective attention system can ruin an otherwise lovely afternoon.

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Try some psychology experiments on yourself! The web page below collects a number of short videos you can watch to test your attention skills. They even include the original Invisible Gorilla Test video. Try some and let us know how it goes.

http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/videos.html



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Facebook's massive outage this week is the perfect opportunity for Barbara & Teja to display their explainer skills so you can look hip and informed at your next distanced dinner party. The world may not have come to an end, but with millions of people's eyeballs unable to keep scrolling, visits to ophthalmologists may be up. Get your emergency outage supplies and join Barbara & Teja as they debrief about this major internet meltdown.

Here's the link to the Cloudflare article I used to learn about how Facebook went down.

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Long ago, we could all hanker for a hunk of cheese, but these are the days of nondairy alternatives! Never ones to shy away from a fun trend, for one exclusive night, Barbara and Teja eschew the cow, the goat, and the yak, and instead dive into a taste test of plant-based nondairy yogurts.  

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The heat is on when Barbara and Teja take a glass blowing lesson! There's nothing like standing next to a burning furnace of molten glass on a 95 degree day. Can Barbara handle the pressure? Can Teja remember what color he picked? They are now armed with new and saucy-sounding vocabulary. Who knew glass blowing was so edgy? No podcasters were harmed in the making of this episode.

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After 50 glorious episodes of our popular series, Date Night with Barbara and Teja, we've changed the title of the series! Here's the player with all of the classic episodes. Revisit favorites or listen for the first time. The archives of Date Night with Barbara & Teja