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Back to SearchSpecial Episode - Jared Bauer on Science and Philosophy in Movies
Episode 45
In this special episode I am joined by Jared Bauer, cofounder of Wisecrack, to discuss science and philosophy in movies and popular culture. We cover…
8 years, 1 month ago
Episode 96: How Computers Work Part VI - High Level Programming and Software
Episode 96
In the final episode of our series on computers, I give an introduction to high-level programming languages, how they relate to assembly language and…
8 years, 2 months ago
Episode 95: How Computers Work Part V - Assembly Language and the Operating System
Episode 95
In this the fifth episode of the series 'how computers work', I begin with a summary of some of the major methods of improving the performance of the…
8 years, 3 months ago
Episode 94: How Computers Work Part IV - Processor Architecture and Machine Code
Episode 94
In this fourth part in our series on computers, I begin with an overview of the von Neumann architecture used in most modern computers. This leads in…
8 years, 3 months ago
Episode 93: How Computers Work Part III - Logic Gates and Components
Episode 93
In this third part of the series on computers I begin with an overview of Boolean algebra, including a discussion of key logic functions such as NOT,…
8 years, 4 months ago
Episode 92: How Computers Work Part II - Silicon and Transistors
Episode 92
In this second episode in the series, I explain binary digital coding to motivate a discussion of the operation of transistors. Beginning with an exa…
8 years, 4 months ago
Episode 91: How Computers Work Part I - What is a Computer?
Episode 91
We begin our series discussing how computers work with an overview of the theory of computation, including a discussion of Turing machines and Turing…
8 years, 5 months ago
Episode 90: Climate Systems
Episode 90
An analysis of the major factors influencing climactic variation over Earth's surface, including a discussion of the effect of differential heating a…
8 years, 5 months ago
Episode 89: The Atmosphere
Episode 89
An overview of the composition and layers of the Earth's atmosphere, including a discussion of the exosphere, thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere,…
8 years, 6 months ago
Episode 88: Cartography and Earths Seasons
Episode 88
A discussion of the shape of the Earth and the difficulties and conventions involved in describing a three-dimensional surface on a two-dimensional m…
8 years, 8 months ago