Fascinating YouTube Videos (FYV) – I

Hi everyone, this is a short new series which I should have actually published way back in 2015 (!!) but I forgot to 😦 I found a few amazing YouTube Science channels which had extremely interesting demonstrations and explanations of common scientific phenomena which were mindblowing. The channels I liked were Smarter Every Day, vSauce,…

The future of computing

The human brain is a massively parallel computational machine which consumes twenty percent of the energy your body produces, which translates to about twelve watts. By comparison, a standard light bulb consumes sixty watts of energy! It uses over one hundred billion neurons, each with about ten thousand connections to its neighbouring neurons. A relatively powerful, recent computer contains anywhere between one…