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You’re one year older and you wake up to a big surprise– your friends are blindfolding you and taking you out to a birthday treat! You drive for a while, walk a couple of blocks, take off your blindfold and find yourself in a grassy park with a cake in front of you. Lucky you! However, you’ve never been here before, so how do you know if you’re actually at a new place or just in front of a huge, detailed picture?

Well, it’s not that likely that you’d be brought to a place where there is such a large image, but being able to tell the difference between a complicated 2-dimensional picture and a 3-dimensional place with objects is something we often take for granted. Thanks to what are called depth cues, we can use these hints to tell that a tree is farther back behind another tree, and not equally far from you as they would be in a flat photograph.

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The automobile industry has come a long way since Karl Benz designed the first gas powered automobile in 1885. Even more astonishing is how much the designs have changed. As the engineering has advanced and become more sophisticated, so have the exterior and interior designs.

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It is the beginning of February and California’s Central valley is painted vibrant shades of pink and white from millions of almond blooms. While much of the country is white with snow, California is white with blooms.

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Imagine this - you’re in a room that is quickly filling up with smoke, making it impossible to see. It is dark, hot, loud and scary. While your first instinct might be to hide - don’t! Before a fire has the chance to take place, ask your parents if they have an emergency escape plan. If they don’t - work as a family to create one and practice it at least twice a year! Here is a link to download a tool to help you make your escape plan. Remember, practice makes perfect and could save your life.

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Have you ever seen any of these buttons when you visit a website?

When you visit certain sites you might see an orange button that says RSS or XML, or some other buttons for MyYahoo, BlogLines, MyMSN and other websites. What are these buttons for, and what can you do with them?

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Have you ever heard of HDTV? How is HDTV different from regular TV?

HDTV means high definition television, and it’s a rather new broadcast technology.

HDTV requires a digital television broadcast that is a much higher resolution than regular television broadcasts. Resolution is the number of pixels in a fixed area that make up a digital image. The higher resolution the image, the better quality the picture will be.

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The Swiss Army knife is not your ordinary pocket knife. A Swiss Army knife is a multifunctional knife that has several tools built into one handy little package.

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ChevronCars.com will be launching newly-designed sections of the website in the coming months. We wanted our loyal Chevron Cars fans to be the first to see the new designs, so we’ve opened up a “Beta” version of this new section. A “Beta” version means that we’re still working on it (so there may be a few kinks to work out), but it allows us to show it to people so you can let us know what you think!

The American Barbie doll is one of the most successful toys in the history of the toy industry, and if there’s one person behind Barbie’s success, it’s Ruth Handler, the woman responsible for designing and marketing the iconic Barbie Doll when she was first introduced back in 1959.

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If you are one of those who love candy, you should try some Chocolate Frogs, a popular candy among wizards, or take your chance with “Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans,” those amazing magical jellybeans in every flavor, including spinach and liver! But do be careful of that creamy snack called Canary Cream that turns those who eat it into canaries! And if you know any werewolves, if you don’t want to be a werewolf’s next meal, then you should have some Wolfsbane Potion to keep them harmless on a full moon night.

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It’s not as easy as you might think to list the tallest buildings in the world. For example, some people say that the tallest building in the world is the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada–it’s height is 1,821 feet! It is a telecommunications tower and an entertainment complex visited by about 2 million tourists each year. The revolving restaurant on top turns 360 degrees every hour, and has a deck from where you can have a really top-of-the-world view of Toronto. But many people don’t consider the CN tower to be a building, since it does not contains occupied floors throughout its full height.

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You’ve probably heard a lot of talk lately about the Presidential elections. Did you know that the rules about electing the President are written in a document called The Constitution? To be President, you have to be born in the United States, live in the United States for at least 14 years, and you have to be at least 35 years old.

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