Bill Nye the Science Guy Season 4 Episode 18 Computers 1995
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.
- Released: 1996-04-25
- Runtime: 26 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, Documentary, Kids
- Stars: Bill Nye, Rachel Glenn, Jennifer Lin, Amy Broder, Ethan Ferkiss
- Director: Adam Gross, Simon Griffith, Elizabeth Brock, Seth Gross, Kit Boss
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1. Rivers & Streams 1995-11-03
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2. Nutrition 1995-11-10
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3. Marine Mammals 1995-11-17
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4. Earthquakes 1995-11-24
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5. NTV Top 11 Video Countdown 1995-12-01
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6. Spiders 1996-01-05
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7. Pollution Solutions 1996-01-12
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8. Probability 1996-01-19
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9. Pseudoscience 1996-01-26
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10. Flowers 1996-01-27
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11. Archaeology 1996-01-28
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12. Deserts 1996-01-29
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13. Amphibians 1996-01-30
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14. Volcanoes 1996-01-31
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15. Invertebrates 1996-02-07
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17. Inventions 1996-02-21
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18. Computers 1996-04-25
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19. Fossils 1997-09-05
