Ellie's Archives: 2000-2025




DECEMBER 2025
December 14 - 22 - Hanukkah
December 19 - National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day
December 20 - New Moon 28° Sagittarius
December 21 - Winter Solstice
December 25 - Christmas
December 26 - Kwanzaa
December 26 - Boxing Day
December 31 - New Years Eve


Reading with Ellie




Friday December 19, 2025     9:00 AM ET


Ellie's World Blog Today
"Disclosure Day" Trailer (Aliens)
Remembering Actor Gil Gerard
Remembering Actor Anthony Geary
Tragic Death of Rob Reiner and his Wife Michele
Suzie Wiles' Vanity Fair Interview
Bondi Beach Hanukkah Terrorist Attack
Saying Goodbye to James Riches a 9/11 Fire Fighter
Brown University Shooting


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The suspect in the Brown University mass shooting was found dead last night after taking his own life . Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown University student and Portuguese national, was found at a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire. He was also responsible for the killing of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro days after the Brown University attack briefly overlapped with Loureiro as physics students in Portugal between 1995 and 2000. Valente entered the country via the program in 2017 and was granted a green card.

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Exclusive: Frustration mounts at Justice Department as it races to redact some Epstein files, sources say




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


December 19, 2025


Christmas Sweater Day

Many are overly stated and labeled 'ugly', while others
are beautifully crafted, part of the fun of Christmas.




December 19, 1843


Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was first published. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.




December 19, 1980

Jake Gyllenhaal - Videos - Filmography

I like to keep my personal life, personal.




December 19, 1972

Alyssa Milano - Videos - Filmography

It's nice to be important, but it's important to always be nice.




December 19, 1963

Jennifer Beals - Videos - Filmography

Love is the most most wonderful thing in the world but also the most dangerous.




December 19, 1967

Criss Angel Magician, Illusionist, Escapologist - Videos

All the magic in the world can't change someone's ultimate fate.




December 19, 1963

Til Schweiger - Videos - Filmography

Look at life through every perspective.




December 19, 1980

Marla Sokoloff - Videos - Filmography

There is a sense of wonder and mystery when
you step through the magic circle of life.




December 19, 1921 - January 28, 2021

Cicely Tyson - Filmography - Videos

Challenges make you discover things
about yourself that you never really knew.




Thursday December 18, 2025     6:00 PM ET


Camera on NASA Mars probe snaps its 100,000th photo of the Red Planet

Researchers have identified a distinctive ultraviolet signature of water in the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

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Physicists Open a 'Message in a Bottle' From Interstellar Space

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Scientists Unveil Eco-Friendly Breakthrough To Eliminate Forever Chemicals

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Robotic arm successfully learns 1,000 manipulation tasks in one day

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This Clever Math Trick Could Change How Scientists Study Earthquakes

Blizzard conditions and destructive winds forecast for the northern Plains and northern Rockies, U.S.

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New Pill Could Finally Treat Sleep Apnea Without a Mask

Experimental Pill Targets Alzheimer's Before Symptoms Appear

New 'Molecular Glue' Gel Could Help Treat Permanent Voice Loss

People's facial mimicry predicts their choices

Scientists Discover Better Way To Screen for Breast Cancer

Scientists Identify 6 Key Depression Symptoms That Predict Dementia Risk

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Rare 1,300-year-old medallion decorated with menorahs found near Jerusalem's Temple Mount

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental. The discovery raises the possibility that King Tut's famous jars once held opiates valued enough to be buried with pharaohs - and stolen by tomb raiders.

Pompeii victims were wearing woolen cloaks in August when they died - but experts are split on what that means

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Mayor Adams holds end-of-administration news conference, buries time capsule at City Hall to be opened in 10 years. This appears to be the first time a mayoral administration has done a time capsule.

Full Transcript of President Trump's Speech on the Economy. The president sharply attacked his predecessor while insisting that his own record contained nothing but victories.

Hero cop hailed, youngest Bondi shooting victim laid to rest

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Pope names fellow Chicagoan, Bishop Ronald Hicks, as new archbishop of New York who replaces the retiring Cardinal Timothy Dolan.

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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Orders Cannabis Rules Relaxed, Easing Research




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


December 18, 1946

Steven Spielberg - Videos - Filmography

As a storyteller, I aspire to touch people with my films.




December 18, 1963

Brad Pitt - Videos - Filmography - News

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.




December 18, 2001

Billie Eilish Singer - Videos - Discography

Billie suffers from Tourette Syndrome, Synesthesia, and Depression.

In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile and laugh when I talk.




December 18, 1978

Katie Holmes - Videos - Filmography

You can be glamorous at any age; it's all about the energy you put out.

Trust yourself. Work hard. Be honest with yourself and life can be meaningful and happy.




December 18, 1980

Christina Aguilera - Videos - Filmography -- Discography

The roughest roads often lead to the top.




December 18, 1992

Bridgit Mendler - Videos - Filmography - Discography

Music and color blend together like a symphony.




December 18, 1924 - January 28, 2021

Cicely Tyson - Videos - Filmography

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way,
you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to
beat you down if you were not a threat.




Wednesday December 17, 2025     7:00 PM ET


There Are Colors Missing From The Sun - And We Still Can't Fully Explain Why. With decades of high-resolution solar spectroscopy, there are some spectral lines whose origins have never been clearly identified

NASA Completes Next-Gen Telescope, And It Could Soon Reveal Whether We're Alone

A Single Solar Storm Could Trigger an End to Space Travel. Here's How.

Saturn's rings extend further above and below the ring plane, forming a 'halo'

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MXene-based e-tattoos harvest energy and monitor health in real time

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AI learns to build simple equations for complex systems

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Mesopotamia - This 8,000-year-old art shows math before numbers existed

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The Arctic Just Sweltered Through Its Hottest Year on Record

Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center

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Scientists reveal why some brains stop growing too soon

A new test could reveal Alzheimer's before symptoms appear

Scientists rewired Down syndrome brain circuits by restoring a missing molecule

Holding back: Team reveals mechanisms behind difficulty in suppressing laughter

Shared inflammation pathways explain why heart disease and depression often occur together

New study reveals how the brain measures distance

Disappointment alters brain chemistry and behavior, mouse study shows

'Zap-and-freeze' snapshots catch brain cells in the act of learning

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Ancient hunter-gatherer DNA may explain why some people live to 100 years or more

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its brain-case fits with classic Homo erectus, the face and teeth resemble much older human ancestors.

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N.Y. Governor Will Sign Right-to-Die Bill for the Terminally Ill. Gov. Kathy Hochul cast the measure in unusually personal terms, saying she had felt the pain of seeing someone you love suffer and feeling powerless to stop it.

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Trump Dangles Cash Payments to Buoy Voters' Views of the Economy

GOP centrists choose nuclear option in fight with Mike Johnson over Obamacare

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Gil Gerard, 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' star, dies at 82

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An MIT professor was fatally shot at his home and police launched a homicide investigation

Bondi Beach shooting suspect charged with terrorism and 15 counts of murder. Preliminary evidence indicates Naveed Akram, 24, staged a terrorist attack inspired by ISIS

Search for Brown University shooting continues into 5th day. Live updates

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Susie Wiles

6 takeaways from Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles' unvarnished interviews

In interviews with Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, said President Trump has an alcoholic's personality, called JD Vance a conspiracy theorist, and concluded that Pam Bondi completely whiffed the early handling of the Epstein files.

Vanity Fair Online: Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the 'Junkyard Dogs': The White House Chief of Staff on Trump's Second Term

Suzie Wiles on Elon Musk - The whiplash of working around someone who runs on impulse and expects everyone else to call it innovation

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A massive replica of the Statue of Liberty unexpectedly toppled in Guaiba, Brazil, during a powerful storm with winds reaching 90 km/h. No one was injured.




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


December 17, 1953

Bill Pullman - Videos - Filmography


I played the President of the United States in the Independence Day franchise. If there's one thing I learned is that a president must put the needs of the people before his own.




December 17, 1945

Ernie Hudson - Videos - Filmography

The more I begin to look around, the more I see
the amazing things people do that go unnoticed.




December 17, 1930

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Videos - Filmography - The Thirteenth Floor

The only source of knowledge is experience; that is why we are here.



A time travel experiment gone awry, murder, and the realization that we exist in an illusion





December 17, 1975

Milla Jovovich - Videos - Filmography


We all need a place to ourselves where we can
be alone and cut ourselves off from the world.




December 17, 1975

Sarah Paulson - Videos - Filmography

May the spirit of Christmas bring you joy and happiness.




December 17, 1947

Wes Studi - Videos - Filmography

Many Native People speak of reality as a dream or illusion
in which we must battle for freedom.




December 17, 1974

Duff Goldman Chef, TV Personality - Videos


I have been cooking since the age of four, when my mom caught me in

the kitchen swinging around a meat cleaver while watching Chef Tell on TV.




December 17, 1894 - July 10, 1979

Arthur Fiedler Conductor - Videos - Boston Pops Orchestra.


Music speaks what cannot be expressed,
soothes the mind and gives it rest,
heals the heart and makes it whole,
flows from heaven to the soul.


Arthur Fiedler


Merry Christmas




December 17, 1770 - March 26, 1827

Ludwig van Beethoven Composer, Pianist - Videos

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.


It should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.




Tuesday December 16, 2025     7:00 PM ET


Alien Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Just About to Make Its Closest Approach to Earth

One of NASA's key cameras orbiting Mars takes 100,000th image

Possible 'superkilonova' exploded not once but twice

Dazzling cosmic jet reveals time-stamped history of star birth

PUNCH mission spacecraft producing unprecedented images of Sun

Welcome to the world of very low Earth orbit satellites

Forget stardust - it was star ice all along. Carl Sagan famously said that "We're all made of star stuff." But he didn't elaborate on how that actually happened.

The moon-forming event: Why it was by explosive ejection rather than a giant impact

Thank the JWST for confirming the first runaway supermassive black hole

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Living cells may generate electricity from motion

Physicists found a way to see heat in empty space

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Harry Potter-style 'moving invisibility cloak' technology developed

Record-breaking feat means information lasts 15 times longer in new kind of quantum processor than those used by Google and IBM

Detecting distant vehicles for safer roads: A new camera-based technique sees farther

How AI helps solve problems it doesn't even understand

Professors and students create face-reading software that helps people communicate and move

Sub-millimeter-sized robots can sense, 'think' and act on their own

UPS buys hundreds of robots to unload trucks in automation push

New software could reduce dependency on big data centers for AI

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Second levee fails in Washington, forcing more evacuations, as atmospheric river renews flood threat

Earth Estimated to Lose 3,000 Glaciers a Year at 'Peak Extinction'

Scientists Discover How Early Earth Saved Its Water From Total Destruction

Back-to-back atmospheric rivers forecast to impact the U.S. West Coast through December 20

Arctic sees unprecedented heat as climate impacts cascade

The North Pole keeps moving. Here's how that affects Santa's holiday travel and yours

Elusive December sun leaves Stockholm in the dark - recording just a half-hour of sunlight in the first half of December, putting it on track for the darkest December since 1934 if the trend continues, meteorologists said.

Australia's climate future: New model goes global

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AI learns to decode the diseases written in your DNA

Scientists find the missing links between genes and disease

Nearly Half of All Heart Attacks May Be Missed by Current Screening Tools

Psilocybin Breaks Depressive Cycles by Rewiring The Brain, Study Suggests

Scientists Finally Reveal How Cancer-Fighting T Cells Switch On

Psychiatric Disorders Share Far More DNA Than Scientists Realized

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Giant sea monsters lived in rivers at the end of the dinosaur age. The discovery paints a striking picture of flexible super-predators adjusting to a rapidly changing world just before mass extinction struck.

Bones Almost on Top of Each Other - Extraordinary Dinosaur Fossil Site Discovered in the Hateg Basin in Transylvania

Has 'culture' become obsolete as an archaeological concept?

Pahon Cave provides a look into 5,000 years of surprisingly stable Stone Age tool use

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6 takeaways from Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles' unvarnished interviews

In interviews with Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, said President Trump has an alcoholic's personality, called JD Vance a conspiracy theorist, and concluded that Pam Bondi completely whiffed the early handling of the Epstein files.

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Here's how Hallmark movies use movie magic to film those cozy Christmas movies months ahead of time.

How finger pointing shapes what we see in old master paintings

How family gatherings unlock forgotten childhood memories that help us understand who we really are/a>




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


December 16, 1943 - April 1, 2018

Steven Bochco Writer, Producer - Filmography - Videos

Steven Bochco and Rob Reiner were influential figures in Hollywood, known for groundbreaking TV and film. The tragic deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele led to media coverage referencing Bochco's legacy as well - leaving behind iconic shows like Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue.




December 16, 1961

Jon Tenney - Videos - Filmography

You always want to know you have somebody
at the helm who knows what they're doing.




December 16, 1963

Benjamin Bratt - Videos - Filmography

As far as I know, you only get one shot at life,
so do something meaningful.




December 16, 1917 - March 19, 2008

Arthur C. Clarke - Videos - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.


UFOs tell us absolutely nothing about intelligence elsewhere in the universe,

but they do prove how rare it is on Earth.


Crystalinks: 2001: A Space Odyssey - Thus Spake Zarathustra (Zoroaster - Z)

The Original Insert - Simulation Theory




December 16, 1947 - August 18, 2020

Ben Cross - Videos - Filmography

I've played different types of characters
most notably Sarek on Star Trek.




December 16, 1981

Krysten Ritter - Videos - Filmography

I like to be stylish and edgy, but also low maintenance.




Monday December 15, 2025     7:00 PM ET


The UN's International Asteroid Warning Network is closely watching comet 3I/ATLAS. Here's why.

James Webb Detects Strongest Evidence Yet of an Atmosphere on a Rocky Exoplanet

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Hidden dimensions could explain where mass comes from

AI helps solve decades-old maze in frustrated magnet physics

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Scientists Discover How To Purify Light, Paving the Way for Faster, More Secure Quantum Technology

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Light-driven chemical process forms flexible electrodes on skin, textiles and glass

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Ice Age Lake Reappears in Death Valley Following Record Rains

Glacier Cave: Scientists Reveal When the World' s Glaciers Could Disappear

Iconic 'Little Foot' fossil may be new type of human ancestor

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ADHD Isn't Just a Deficit: New Study Reveals Powerful Psychological Strengths

AI found a way to stop a virus before it enters cells

New AI Can Predict Which Diseases Your DNA Might Spark

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Viking-Age Grave Reveals a Burial Unlike Anything Seen Before

The discovery of a Viking-age burial in Trondelag, Norway, has presented archaeologists with a historical mystery.

Magdala stone: 2,000-year-old carving from Jerusalem is world's oldest known depiction of a menorah

How we unlocked the secrets of Denmark's oldest plank boat - with the help of an ancient fingerprint

Iconic 'Little Foot' fossil may be new type of human ancestor

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Legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner were murdered Their son Nick, is in custody.

Live Updates: Bondi Beach Terrorist Incident

Manhunt for Brown University shooter enters third day as person of interest released

The two US Army soldiers ambushed and killed in Syria on Saturday were Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, Iowa, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, Iowa

Anthony Geary, Luke on General Hospital, Dies at 78

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First global study finds young people redefining sexuality around the world

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Brian Walshe found guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of his wife




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


December 14 - 22, 2025

Hanukkah - Festival of Lights

To those celebrating ... enjoy the holiday season.

To understand the joy and significance of Hanukkah, we segue back to a timeless narrative of endurance and hope as ancient Jewish people found light in the midst of uncertainty. That tradition continues today - reminding us that same light is what unites us across time and space - as ancient traditions guide us toward a future calling encoded in our DNA since the beginning of the journey.




December 15, 1979

Adam Brody - Videos - Filmography

"Nobody Wants This" deals with the question of whether Noah, a rabbi, and Joanne, an agnostic podcast host, can go the distance if she doesn't convert to Judaism. It might sound like a heavy topic, and there are definitely raw scenes, but the show covers it all: love, fear, and everything in between, plus moments that are just plain funny and relatable.




December 15, 1949

Don Johnson - Videos - Filmography

Decorate your Christmas tree with things that are tangible and represent your hopes and dreams, then create another tree for your veiled concepts so that they will one day come to fruition.




December 15, 1990

Rachel Brosnahan - Videos - Filmography

Acting was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!




December 15, 1970

Michael Shanks - Videos - Filmography

It's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

Shanks played Dr. Daniel Jackson as well as the voiceover for the alien Thor on Stargate SG1.

Answers to humanity's questions about its creation and destiny lie outside the known universe.




December 15, 1977

Geoff Stults - Videos - Filmography

Life is filled with unexpected changes, especially today. All you can do is your best.




December 15, 1945

Thaao Penghlis Actor - Videos

There's an energetic connection between Christmas and ancient Egypt.