Bill Nye the Science Guy
Season 4 Episode 18 - Computers
With special guest, Mick H. Computers are used throughout the world all the time. Computers are in cars, calculators, televisions – you’re even using one right now. Humans use computers to take information – things like pictures, words, numbers, and sound, and turn it into electricity. The information is changed into a pattern of electrical pulses, a bunch of electricity “ons” and “offs.” The computers are designed so that they can tell the difference between pieces of information by the different patterns of “ons” and “offs.” Computers change the information you give them, turn it into electrical pulses, make changes to it, and give it back to you in a form you can understand in a matter of thousandths of seconds. It’s not the computers, it’s the electricity that makes computers so fast.
Episodes in Season 4
Rivers & Streams
26 min
Nutrition
26 min
Marine Mammals
26 min
Earthquakes
26 min
NTV Top 11 Video Countdown
26 min
Spiders
26 min
Pollution Solutions
26 min
Probability
26 min
Pseudoscience
26 min
Flowers
26 min
Archaeology
26 min
Deserts
26 min
Amphibians
26 min
Volcanoes
26 min
Invertebrates
26 min
Heart
26 min
Inventions
26 min
Computers
26 min
Fossils
26 min
Time
26 min
