I would suggest not using the fireplace if you mount your TV above it. It does depend on the type of TV but any electronic device is going to have trouble ......

AM and PM are used in the measurement of time with a 12 hour clock. AM refers to the early half of the day, midnight till noon and PM refers to ......

A gigabyte is 1,000 megabytes.  Songs are various lengths but an mp3 on average is about 3-4 megabytes per song.  So at 3.5 megabytes per song, a gigabyte would hold about ......

Deconstructivism, or deconstruction in architecture began in the late 1980’s.  The design of buildings that follow the deconstruction philosophy are designed to look non-linear.  Although the buildings are structurally sound, hopefully, ......

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, famous for the first ever powered flight in December 17 1903, did much to advance scientific fields like aerodynamics.  The wind tunnel they created was ......

A standpipe is similar to a fire hydrant.  It’s purpose is to supply water to higher floors in tall buildings.  The concept behind it is that it is easier to pump ......

There are three components of an email address.   The prefix, the suffix, and the extension: prefix@suffix.extension, of course a real email address will look more like Bob@Smith.com.  Free email such as ......

Concrete does not lose any water weight due to evaporation.  When you mix concrete and water you are creating a chemical reaction, the water molecule bonds to the concrete molecules, this ......

SOS is Morse Code for an emergency signal.  While you may see movies in which a person write the letters S O S on a beach in shells, it was originally ......

A furlong is an ancient British unit of measurement.  Most commonly referred to today in joking about a person's age.  A furrow is a trench that's been made by pulling a ......

Yes, with the world growing the way it is, and our ever increasing ability to manipulate radio waves, we are becoming less and less dependent on cables.  For years people have ......

The fuel in the booster rockets is used up by the time the rocket reaches a height of 45 kilometers. At this height (or shortly thereafter) the booster rockets separate from ......

LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display, DLP stands for Digital Light Processing.  Get it?  Just kidding. An LCD display can be many things, a television, a watch face, the screen on ......

With the worlds growing fuel concerns we are being forced to find alternate sources.  Ethanol is one of those new sources.  While we don't use it as fuel for very many ......

It should be completely fine to turn off your central heating system whenever you want. Electric systems do not thrive by being left on all day long.  Leaving them on all ......

Although the two circuits may seem to have the same amperage they actually don't.  AC power is an alternating current (AC), while DC is direct current.  Lets say you have a ......

A difficult question, the television we watch today is based on a few concepts that were all brought together to create the modern day television.   There is the mechanical side of ......

Personally I prefer to use a toaster oven to reheat food.  Toaster ovens are little ovens so they do a great job of cooking or reheating, but they're small it is ......

VOIP stands for Voice Over IP (Internet Protocol).   IP is the transport protocol for data, how your computer gets the data it needs to show you a web page, or to ......