Ellie's Archives: 2000-2026




JULY 2026
July 22 - Sun in Leo
July 22-26 - Comic Con San Diego
July 29 - Full Buck Moon 6° Aquarius


Reading with Ellie




Tuesday July 21, 2026     1:00 PM ET


Ellie's World Blog Today
2026 FIFA World Cup - Text, Pics, Video
2026 Earth Changes - How much longer will Earth be sustainable?
The Redwood, The Gazebo, and The Lamp Post
Geoglyphs, Patterns, and Codes Written in Stone


Mysterious 'little red dots' at the beginning time may finally have an explanation, thanks to newfound 'little blue companions'

The Sunlight on Your Face Took 8 Minutes to Reach Earth. But First, It Spent 170,000 Years Escaping The Sun.

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Scientists Find a Way Around a 160-Year-Old Law of Physics to Create Programmable Heat

How physics and mathematical modeling help us make better clothes

How Gravity from Entropy theory connects the second law of thermodynamics with the emergence of cosmic structure

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MIT's Tiny Flying Robot Just Learned To Move Like a Real Insect

New Metal Alloy Is up to 10 Times Stronger Than Structural Steel

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Where do the world's biggest diamonds come from? Geology now has answers

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Slow-moving tropical Storm Bertha drifts toward land as Hurricane Fausto forms in the eastern Pacific

Antarctic Meltwater Is Making Glaciers Slide Faster Toward the Ocean

Invisible microbes 'mining' toxic waste in the Flinders Ranges

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Scientists Find a More Precise Way to Grow Artificial Blood Vessels, Using Magnets

Sudden cardiac death condition shown to have linked genetic variations

Female ER physicians order more tests and admit more patients than male physicians, study shows

How ultra-processed food firms hoodwink us into thinking their products are 'healthier' than others

More than half of US adults now eligible for statins under new guidelines, study finds

Aspirin matches costlier blood thinners after hip and knee replacement surgery, major trial finds

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'Superworms' can clean extremely delicate skeletons lickety-split, and that's a game changer for museums

Ancient Dog Skulls Rewrite the Story of Canine Evolution

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Rare identical quadruplet girls born in Australian hospital

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How scary is a democratic socialist candidate? Apparently not as scary as a MAGA one

New US escalation in Iran makes Trump's endgame vacuum more urgent

White House rushes to further secure Trump's new Air Force One but he plans to keep flying it domestically




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


July 21, 1978

Josh Hartnett - Videos - Filmography

Do you ever wonder how others describe you?




July 21, 1978

Justin Bartha - Videos - Filmography - National Treasure

The truth is often hidden in plain sight.




July 21, 1951 - August 21, 2014

Robin Williams - Videos - Filmography

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
while loving someone deeply gives you courage.




July 21, 1920 - September 22, 2001

Isaac Stern Violinist, Conductor- Videos - Discography

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul.
It shows what is there, and what isn't.




July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961

Ernest Hemingway Novelist - Videos

Sometimes the words just flow.
Other times you just sit there and stare at the keys.




July 21, 1620 - July 12, 1682

Jean-Felix Picard Astronomer - Videos

We live in a changing universe, and few things
are changing faster than our perception of it.




Monday July 20, 2026     7:00 PM ET


Humans Landed on The Moon 57 Years Ago Today. It Revealed How Little We Know

Astronomers discover an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone for first time ever

Einstein's 'Greatest Blunder' May Be Breaking Cosmology

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The First Room-Temperature Quantum Material of Its Kind Is Spun From Atoms of Gold

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Scientists found two powerful new ways to destroy forever chemicals

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New AI blood test predicts heart disease 15 years early

An ordinary laptop solved a problem thought to require a quantum computer

Researchers have uncovered an unexpected electrical response in ultrathin diamond membranes, challenging a century-old assumption about the material

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Floating igloo leaves France for polar exploration mission

Earth's waters are quietly running out of oxygen, scientists warn

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How to keep the air inside your home clean during wildfires

Wildfire Smoke Can Attack Almost Every Part of Your Body Not Just Your Lungs

Africa is home to around 70% of the world's burned area - the total area of land scorched by wildfires each year - making it the planet's biggest wildfire hotspot. Yet despite this, satellite observations have revealed an unexpected trend over the past two decades: The amount of land burned across the continent has been steadily falling.

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At least 930 people have died in Congo's Ebola outbreak

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Has Been Recreated on a Chip, And Scientists Could Finally Figure Out Its Cause

Scientists Finally Worked Out Why Some Hair Is Curly - And It Starts Beneath The Skin

Alzheimer's breakthrough: Scientists restore two hours of sleep without clearing brain plaques

Scientists Say Modern Life Is Pushing The Human Mind Beyond Its Limits

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Glimpse what life was like for survivors of the Pompeii disaster

' Some dinosaurs could rise like giants until they grew too big

Archaeological dig reveals full extent of Roman villa with intricate mosaic and bath house

Centuries before farming, hunter-gatherers introduced fish to the Norwegian mountains

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'King of the North' Andy Burnham becomes 7th British prime minister after a decade of political turmoil

Third US service member killed as US ramps up strikes on Iran




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


July 20, 1969


Apollo 11: First Moon Landing - Videos - Conspiracies Theories

The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Project Apollo and the third human voyage to the Moon. It was also the second all-veteran crew in manned spaceflight history. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. On July 21 Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above. The mission fulfilled President John F. Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s.


I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.

It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.


Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth.

I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight.

The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on Earth.

It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.




"Better if he had said something natural like, 'Jesus, here we are.'"
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Sir Edmund Hillary, Commenting on Neil Armstrong's 1969 message from the moon.


July 20, 1919 - January 11, 2008

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary - Videos

Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer
May 29, 1953 he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, became
the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.


People do not decide to become extraordinary.

They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.


It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.




July 20, 1969

Josh Holloway - Videos - Filmography

My soul came to Earth on the same day the astronauts landed on the moon.




July 20, 1973

Omar Epps - Videos - Filmography

It's all going somewhere.




July 20, 1980

Gisele Bundchen Model - Videos

What you learn about life is to go with the flow.




July 20, 1971

Sandra Oh - Videos - Filmography

I certainly hope that God is watching over us in these trying times.




July 20, 1988

Julianne Hough - Videos - Filmography

I take life one day at a time and hope for the best.




July 20, 1804 - December 18, 1892

Sir Richard Owen Paleontologist - Videos

English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist.
In 1842 he coined the word Dinosaur - terrible reptile.




July 20, 1822 - January 6, 1884

Gregor Mendel - Videos



Google Doodle

Gregor Mendel - founder of the science of genetics.


The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness
of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the

case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected
to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.




July 20, 356 BC - June 10, 323 BC

Alexander the Great - Videos

Remember, upon the conduct of each, depends the fate of all.