Science
What happens inside computers? The cream yellow Volvo 850 T5-R wagon (Pinterest) (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/1b/a3/e4/1ba3e49abd91ca711ee341c8190ca2c3.jpg) What is a computer? (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/computer.htm) When women stopped coding (Planet Money, NPR) (http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding) Women computers in World War II (Engineering & Technology History) (http://ethw.org/Women_Computers_in_World_War_II) Human computers: The women of NASA (History) (http://www.history.com/news/human-computers-women-at-nasa) How do computers work? (Explain That Stuff!) (http://www.explainthatstuff.com/howcomputerswork.html) How does a computer work? (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001263.htm) What does the inside of a computer look like? (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000997.htm) What is computer hardware? (How Stuff Works, Tech) (http://computer.howstuffworks.com/what-is-computer-hardware.htm/printable) Turing machine (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine) Turing machines explained (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNRDvLACg5Q) Central processing unit (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/cpu.htm) Transistors (Explain That Stuff!) (http://www.explainthatstuff.com/howtransistorswork.html) How transistors work (How Stuff Works, Electronics) (http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/transistor.htm/printable) CSIRAC: The only intact first-generation computer surviving anywhere in the world (Museums Victoria) (https://museumvictoria.com.au/csirac/) Transistors used to be vacuum tubes: The transistor in a century of electronics (The Nobel Prize) (https://www.nobelprize.org/educational/physics/transistor/history/) Logic gate (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/l/logicgat.htm) Binary (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/binary.htm) What is silicon & why are computer chips made from it? (Extreme Tech) (https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/208501-what-is-silicon-and-why-are-computer-chips-made-from-it) Facts about silicon (livescience) (https://www.livescience.com/28893-silicon.html) Why silicon computers rule (Cosmos) (https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/why-silicon-computers-rule) Moore's law: The number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every 2 years (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law) The 'doubling of grains of rice on a chess board' fable (The Math Forum) (http://mathforum.org/sanders/geometry/GP11Fable.html) The tunnelling transistor (IEEE) (http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/the-tunneling-transistor) Deterministic algorithm (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_algorithm) Motherboard (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/m/mothboar.htm) Universal serial bus, or USB (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/u/usb.htm) How USB ports work (How Stuff Works, Tech) (http://computer.howstuffworks.com/usb.htm/printable) Human ingenuity has created a world that the mind cannot master: Have we finally reached our limits?(aeon) (https://aeon.co/essays/is-technology-making-the-world-indecipherable) Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.org) Arduino (https://www.arduino.cc) Random access memory, or RAM (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/r/ram.htm) Read only memory, or ROM (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/r/rom.htm) Pull yourself up by your bootstraps (The Phrase Finder) (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps.html) Boot (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/boot.htm) What happens when you switch a computer on? (The Linux Documentation Project) (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Unix-and-Internet-Fundamentals-HOWTO/bootup.html) How PCs work (How Stuff Works, Tech) (http://computer.howstuffworks.com/pc.htm/printable) Power-on self-test, or POST (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/post.htm) Boot sector (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/bootsect.htm) Kernel (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/k/kernel.htm) Kernel (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(operating_system)) What is shut down? (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/shutdown.htm) What is actually happening when a Windows computer is shutting down? (How-To Geek) (https://www.howtogeek.com/235771/what-is-actually-happening-when-a-windows-computer-is-shutting-down/) How to shut down a computer (Computer Hope) (https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001672.htm) Energy efficiency guide for iOS apps & 'batching transactions' (Apple) (https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/EnergyGuide-iOS/DeferNetworking.html) CPU power dissipation (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation) Power efficiency in OS X (Apple) (https://www.apple.com/media/us/osx/2013/docs/OSX_Power_Efficiency_Technology_Overview.pdf) Public service announcement: You should not force quit apps on iOS (Daring Fireball, John Gruber) (https://daringfireball.net/2017/07/you_should_not_force_quit_apps) Where are you from? Send us a postcard! 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