Saturday December 13, 2025


December 13, 1989


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December 13, 1925


Dick Van Dyke Turns 100 - Videos - Filmography


Dick Van Dyke Credits His Longevity to One Habit Positive Outlook and Never Getting Angry. And It's Backed by Science


This is easy to explain ... when you suffer from depressive disorders, much of your life-force energy goes into trying to balance your emotions - detracting from the positive things others experience. It's doubtful that Dick never got angry because everyone does but that's not his programming in life.


Mental illness, which often leads to substance abuse, sucks the life out of you. Depression leads to autoimmune diseases and other currently recognized reasons why souls break down - finding a reason to go on disability - and you know the rest as we've all become therapists.




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 the 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 13, 2025


National Cocoa Day - Wikipedia


There's something about hot cocoa that feels inseparable from winter - a mug warming your hands, steam rising gently, and a swirl of marshmallows or whipped cream melting into the surface.


It's no wonder hot cocoa - or a cup of hot chocolate - has become a staple of the season and a familiar touchstone in Christmas rom-coms - appearing during heartfelt conversations or at the moment love finds a way.


On National Cocoa Day, we celebrate more than a drink. We celebrate the cozy rituals of winter - slowing down, spending time with friends, savoring simple comforts, and enjoying the sweetness that makes the season feel a little warmer.




December 13, 2025


NYC the Official Home of SantaCon - Wikipedia


In a mix of dreary and overcast weather - SantaCon 2025 takes over NYC today.


SantaCon has a reputation for crowds, costumes, and bar hopping - and yes, it's often loud, chaotic, and fueled by more than a little holiday cheer.


But at its best, SantaCon is also about shared silliness and strangers agreeing, for one afternoon, to suspend seriousness and lean into play.


There's something oddly connective about thousands of people dressed as Santa, elves, and reindeer, laughing together, striking up conversations with strangers, and turning city streets into a temporary community.


Friendships are forged along the way, inside jokes form quickly, and for a few hours, the city feels less anonymous.


Love it or loathe it, SantaCon taps into a simple holiday impulse - to be social, to belong, and to celebrate together - even if just for the spectacle of it all.




December 13-14, 2025


Geminid Meteor Showers Peak - Videos




On the Fringe of Reality


In recent days I was been out and about with neighbors and friends - some of whom I haven't seen in years - reminiscing about how time has flown and everything has changed. There are topics left undiscussed and plans woven into uncertainty. Current algorithms are reshaping the thinking and emotions of the human experiment as it moves forward, guided by forces on the fringe of reality.




UFO Disclosure


The odds of President Donald Trump revealing what he knows about alien life have suddenly skyrocketed, leading experts to believe full public disclosure is days away.


I've been waiting since Trump's first term for him to reveal more about the alien agenda, but he never did, seeming to shy away from the topic when asked. Sources told me he was never trusted with the information, which may or may not be the case.


It's always been about extra terrestrial entities coming forward and explaining their agenda rather than ambiguous lights and objects in the sky.


Enigmatic artifacts and megalithic structures fill in some of the missing pieces while keeping humanity guessing about their origins. Helpful, but only to a point. They stand like cryptic signposts scattered across time - reminders that someone, or something, was here before us, shaping the world in ways we still struggle to comprehend. But they never speak plainly. They offer just enough to ignite curiosity, never enough to satisfy it, leaving humanity suspended between revelation and mystery, always reaching, always wondering what truth still lies just out of reach.


I wish I could say I foresee disclosure forthcoming. Although Trump is doing everything he can to divert from the Epstein Files, I don't see him saying anything we don't already know.


Most of us know some of the truth. Many have chased it for decades. Some, like myself, have been taken. More people than you know have seen UAPs (UFOs). It's all part of the human experiment as an untold story long overdue about creation by gods aka extraterrestrials.


The experiment ended in 2007. The aliens are gone leaving behind surveillance drones.


We all have questions. It would be interesting if aliens never had the answers - instead following their own agendas.


As we come to Christmas ... some wonder, "Was Jesus an alien - meaning not from Earth? That line of questioning goes on and on ...


We're all plugged into something ... by now you should know what that is.


Do you think the current human design is the final piece of the puzzle - the players who finally get the answers humanity has always sought?

If you, on some level, believe we exist in a simulated reality that has finally presented humans a way to figure that out - then indeed the journey in emotions has finally reached the end of ACT III. Time to move on. FADE TO BLACK


Disclosure notes: A few unredacted pages and some pics from the 1940's and 50's is old news. Proof about human and alien interaction over the decades ... well that depends on what it is. Not many governments will freely admit that humans were abducted and experimented on as part of human-alien agendas - pre and post Roswell.


All Will Be Disclosed


Steven Spielberg's mysterious new UFO film just got its first look via billboards overlooking Times Square.


Steven Spielberg's enigmatic new UFO epic has begun its slow reveal. Towering billboards have begun appearing in major cities, specifically in Los Angeles and New York City's Times Square, as part of the early marketing campaign for Steven Spielberg's upcoming film - unveiling its first cryptic image - a stark black-and-white bird, its eye inverted as if seeing the world - or us - from another plane. Beneath it, a chilling promise: "All Will Be Disclosed."


The teaser trailer arrives December 19, attached to 'Avatar: Fire and Ash', and intriguingly drops just one day after Spielberg's birthday. The cast is a powerhouse - Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Wyatt Russell - each rumored to anchor a story steeped in contact, secrecy, and revelation.


The film premieres June 6, 2026, aligning with a rare convergence of global energies: the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, known as 'America250', and the 2026 FIFA World Cup sweeping across the Americas, and the anniversary of the July 1947 Roswell Incident. Add to that the long-standing tradition of July 4th UFO, alien, and sci-fi blockbusters - many of them Spielberg's own - and the timing feels anything but accidental.


They're going to keep you speculating for the next six months - releasing symbols, clues, and cryptic imagery just enough to stir the subliminal references people have been seeing for decades - all without revealing the storyline. It will be intriguing to see what Spielberg has woven into his latest extraterrestrial odyssey.


I hope Roland Emmerich is also busy creating similar scripts designed to allow viewers to remember. Remember what? Who we are and why we are here. It's already encoded in your DNA. It's just that some people are programmed to remember sooner than others.


Though researchers may have exhausted the well of original alien narratives scheduled to allow humans to remember, it will be fascinating to see what Steven Spielberg unveils next spring. He has always seemed attuned to the deeper currents of the extraterrestrial conversation - the so-called alien agenda woven through decades of conspiracies, denials, and half-truths. Remember, he's the guy who created the award-winning miniseries Taken which pretty much captured the essence of the modern day alien agenda on planet Earth and showed us that humanity is a hybrid design.





Space in the News


Astronomy Index




NASA Announces Plan to Map Milky Way With Roman Space Telescope


Scientists Detect Huge Rotating Structure in Space. Astronomers have observed enormous filaments of galaxies tied together with dark matter - the stuff scientists believe makes up 85 percent of the total mass of the universe - stretching across unfathomably vast distances


Gravitational Lensing Reveals a Twist in the Universe's Expansion


Space Force rolls out new naming scheme for satellites and space weapons


JWST Detects Record-Breaking Supernova That Erupted Right at The Cosmic Dawn


'Super-Jupiter' Exoplanets May Look Like Nothing We've Ever Seen


This bright star will soon die in a nuclear explosion and could be visible in Earth's daytime skies


Scientists Finally Explain Mysterious Impossible Merger of Two Massive Black Holes


This surprising discovery rewrites the Milky Way's origin story


Long ago, Mars had massive watersheds - now finally mapped



Solar Cycles


Ongoing coronal mass ejections (CMEs) disrupt communications, radio and satellite operations, the electric power grid, navigation, global weather patterns, and the behavior patterns of sentient life forms. CME's also create spectacular auroras


Strong M8.1 solar flare erupts producing Earth-directed CME impact expected early to midday on December 9


Sun unleashes intense X-class solar flare, triggering radio blackouts across Australia




Physics in the News


Physics

Neutrino Alchemy: Sun's Ghost Particles Finally Caught Transforming



Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year in physics for 2025 revealed


The European Strategy for Particle Physics reaches an important milestone


New Ice XXI, An Entirely New Form of Ice, Emerges When Water Is Crushed to Extreme Pressures


Neutrino Alchemy: Sun's Ghost Particles Finally Caught Transforming


Rewriting Quantum Optics: Scientists Engineer Photons in Space and Time


'Quantum Antenna' Breaks Barrier in Measuring Elusive Terahertz Signals


Scientists Watch Spins Switch in 140 Trillionths of a Second


An old jeweler's trick could unlock next-generation nuclear clocks


Historic search for 'huge missing piece' of the universe turns up negative - but reveals new secrets of particle physics




Math in the News


Mathematics


Pi and AI


Ramanujan's 100-Year-Old Pi Formula That Hides the Secrets of the Universe. A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan's century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes




Chemistry in the News


Chemistry


After 50 Years, MIT Chemists Finally Synthesize Elusive Anti-Cancer Compound


The Milky Way's Chemical Mystery Finally Makes Sense





Technology in the News


Artificial Intelligence


Artificial intelligence myths have existed for centuries - from the ancient Greeks to a Pope's chatbot


'Light-bending' material that controls blue and ultraviolet light could transform advanced chipmaking


Silicon chips on the brain: Researchers develop new generation of brain-computer interface


New Paper-Thin Brain Implant Could Transform How Humans Connect With AI


Speech-to-reality system creates objects on demand using AI and robotics


Can AI read humans' minds? A pedestrian behavior model is shockingly good at it


AI tool to better comprehend how autistic individuals communicate and perceive the world through language


How student writing has evolved in the AI era




Health in the News


Health Files ~ Alternative Healing


Scientists Discover a Way to Recharge Aging Cells


Living at High Altitudes Induces Remarkable Changes in How Genes Behave


Why we created a phone-sized device to take blood diagnostics out of the lab into the real world


Blood tests reveal obesity rapidly accelerates Alzheimer's progression


Researchers Discover a Delicious Way to Reduce the Health Risks of Sitting


Single enzyme mutation reveals a hidden trigger in dementia


New fat-burning diabetes pill protects muscle and appetite with fewer side effects.


Study explores AI-enhanced wearable devices for Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes care


Scientists Solve Pancreatic Cancer Mystery: Key Driver of Unusually Deadly Spread Identified


'Brainquake' Discovery Could Change What We Know About Schizophrenia





Brain in the News


Brain Index


The brain switch that could rewrite how we treat mental illness


A Hidden Brain State Before Sleep May Be The Key to Human Genius


Unlocking the Brain's Secret Defense Against Stress


'Brainquake' Discovery Could Change What We Know About Schizophrenia


A Fasting-Style Diet Seems to Result in Dynamic Changes to Human Brains


Quantum clues to consciousness: New research suggests the brain may harness the zero-point field




Planet Earth In the News


Planet Earth Index


Amazon rainforest is transitioning to a 'hypertropical' climate and trees won't survive that for long


Giant structure discovered deep beneath Bermuda is unlike anything else on Earth


Hundreds of Earthquakes Detected at Antarctica's 'Doomsday' Glacier


Rice Fields Are Drowning and the Damage Is Accelerating Worldwide


'Catastrophic' Pacific Northwest floods leaves 100,000 facing evacuation. Water rescues as rivers rise toward historic levels


Winter storm rips through Gaza, flooding tents and exposing aid shortages


Space Dust Reveals the Arctic Is Melting Faster Than Expected


Russia's Bezymianny volcano blew itself apart 69 years ago. It's now almost completely regrown.


Small meteotsunami observed across North Island coasts, New Zealand


A weakening AMOC - Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - is the hidden force behind Greenland's cold anomaly - and a warning about future climate shifts


Midweek Clipper Brings Snow From Great Lakes To Northeast




Earthquakes in the News


Earthquakes



Hundreds of Earthquakes Detected at Antarctica's 'Doomsday' Glacier


A 6.9 magnitude earthquake causes small tsunami waves off northeastern Japan

Giant structure discovered deep beneath Bermuda is unlike anything else on Earth


The Pacific Plate is moving northwest forcing itself beneath surrounding plates and triggering intense seismic activity seen across Japan, the Kuril Islands, Kamchatka, and southern Alaska.


Monday - A powerful magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck off Japan's northeastern coast on Monday, triggering evacuation orders and a tsunami warning for parts of the coastline. - The 2025 Sanriku earthquake


Sunday - Very strong M7.0 earthquake hits near Yakutat shakes Southeast Alaska including Juneau and other towns in Alaska's northern and central panhandle




Archaeology in the News


Archaeology


2,000-year-old shipwreck may be Egyptian 'pleasure barge' from last dynasty of pharaohs


Trove of 225 'Exceptional' Egyptian Figurines Solves Long-Standing Mystery


Hidden Chambers Found in Menkaure Pyramid The youngest of the Giza pyramids and unique for its extensive use of Aswan granite - Discovered two mysterious void spaces


Scientists reveal a surprising new timeline for ancient Egypt. Radiocarbon clues have redrawn the timeline of Thera's eruption and Egypt's early 18th Dynasty


It Rivaled Ancient Egypt, Then Vanished: New Study Pinpoints Why the Indus Valley Fell


Startling Sounds From 6,000-Year-Old Shells Hint at Their Ancient Use




Prehistoric Art in the News


Prehistoric Art


Earliest botanical art hints at prehistoric mathematical thinking These vessels represent the first moment in history when people chose to portray the botanical world as a subject worthy of artistic attention. It reflects a cognitive shift tied to village life and a growing awareness of symmetry and aesthetics.


Stunning blue pigment on a 13,000-year-old artifact surprises scientists. The find suggests ancient people possessed deeper knowledge of minerals and colors than believed.





Paleontology in the News


Paleontology Index


Hobbits

The 'hobbits' mysteriously disappeared 50,000 years ago. Our new study reveals what happened to their home


Archaeologists Discover Earliest Evidence of Humans Using Tools to Make Fire


Archaeologists uncover evidence that Neanderthals made fire 400,000 years ago in England





Prehistoric Planet Ice Age


Consciousness Frozen in Time



2026 Ahead





Snow Jobs


Winter has settled over much of the country this week as storms roll in like uninvited guests whose presence is generally not welcomed but you're stuck with until it passes.


The real 'snow jobs' this week aren't falling from the sky - they're coming from Trump and company, a blizzard of diversion so thick it nearly obscures the latest Epstein-file revelations. His endless theatrics continue, each one louder and more nonsensical than the last.


No one should wonder why Trump is suddenly releasing criminals. As always, the trail winds back to bribes, favors, and the kind of shadow-economy dealings that have propped up empires since time immemorial.


I've crossed paths with titans from every corner of industry - globe-spanning dealmakers, Wall Street power brokers, and the quietly ruthless architects of modern influence which include criminals on their way to jail. Some inherited their wealth from a bygone lineage, but others worked their way out of obscurity, driven by their programming and a desire for success. The game is no longer millionaires but has up the ante to billionaires.


In the life Trump was born into - the rules are basically the same - trade favors, stack alliances, build pyramids of power one strategic move at a time, and when in trouble - diversions and delays. It's worked in the past.


It appears as fiction when it's written for the screen - but it's actually written on the screens of something much grander - the simulation itself which projects destiny into physical reality to experience. The rules don't change - only the players do in order to 'fit the sheets' from 2D to 3D.


Many players become philanthropists, channeling their wealth into causes meant to uplift those left unprotected by the shifting tides of fortune. In a world where the feeling of financial security is increasingly elusive, their efforts often come from a place of trying to steady a ship that feels perpetually lost at sea.


Most people believe we exist in what I call a sine-wave reality - a rhythm of rises and falls, peaks and valleys of not only money - but life itself. If we feel caught up in a downward slide at the moment - with Trump seen by many as the main catalyst - the belief is that the curve will reverse direction once he's gone. (Define gone).


Trump, on one hand, set his sights on Nicolas Maduro - another South American president-entangled-in-crime-boss lore - attempting to orchestrate a geopolitical takedown worthy of a thriller. But the plot twisted quickly. The people he trusted to execute the diversion fumbled the operation - turning what was meant to be a clean maneuver into a chaotic spectacle. Now they find themselves in the crosshairs of Congress and a host of others eager for the chance to bring the entire web of players crashing down.


Then there are criminals bribing Trump for the "get out of jail free card" - most notably Juan Hernandez, who once 'upon a time' was a notorious drug lord from Honduras ... and you know the rest. Honduras issues arrest warrant for ex-president Hernandez recently pardoned by Trump.


Many people watch the unfolding dramas in Washington and wonder how long the man who governs like a mob boss can keep slipping through the cracks. His reign, marked by bluster and heavy-handed theatrics, has cast a long shadow over the country - his unchecked power shaping him into one of the most self-obsessed figures on the world stage - and in history itself.


Trump has never been known for intellect - the kind of leader who famously avoids reading anything - which only fuels speculation about how his story ends. Will the fall come through the slow machinery of the legal system which he tries to control, or through the inevitable collapse that arrives when ego outgrows its own foundations, or time itself creates new villains and heroes as he's ousted and never sees it coming.


Don't overthink the how or when.


In every empire - real or imagined - fate writes the final act.









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