Welcome to Dailypedia

By Lydia Ramsey

When it comes to holiday greeting cards, to send or not to send is often the question. Once you have decided in the affirmative, you then have to determine who to include on your list, what kind of card to choose and how to address the envelope.


Read more…

By Jim Thio

When a woman stays in an abusive violent relationship, societies won’t simply declare that it must be inconsensual and illegal.


Read more…

Scientists have long wondered how Saharan desert ants are able to travel between their nests and food sources in an environment with few landmarks. Researchers recently uncovered the answer when they altered the length of the insects' stride. After attaching stilts to ants' legs, the researchers found that the insects overshot their destination, suggesting that they have internal pedometers that help them correctly assess traveling distance.

By Aiken Smith

Monuments are a way to pay tribute to the life of an individual who has passed on. They are often installed in cemeteries and are similar to traditional headstone markers. Monuments come in many different styles, shapes, and sizes. Headstone monuments are smaller, yet still a memorable way to cherish and pay tribute to the gravesite of a loved one.


Read more…

DEFINITION: (adjective) Lethargic; apathetic. SYNONYMS: inert, sluggish. USAGE: They are always in a torpid state, and are apt to yawn and go to sleep over any intellectual toil.

Cocteau was a French author and filmmaker who worked in nearly every artistic medium. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim, and he is best known for the novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929), the play The Infernal Machine, and the film Beauty and the Beast. Despite his achievements in virtually all literary and artistic fields, Cocteau insisted that he was primarily a poet. What was his connection to Pablo Picasso?

Newton's Principia, a 3-volume work, represents one of the greatest milestones in the history of science. Volume 1 focuses on dynamics and includes Newton's 3 famous laws of motion; the 2nd portion details fluid motion and other topics; and the 3rd part is an essay on universal gravitation, including an explanation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Although Newton used calculus to derive his results, he explained them by use of older geometric methods. Why might he have done this?

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is an area in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida where a number of ships and aircraft have vanished. Some believe this stormy region to be a paranormal site in which the laws of physics are violated or altered, but investigations to date have not produced scientific evidence of any unusual phenomena. What was Flight 19, and what happened to it in the Bermuda Triangle?