Ellie's Archives: 2000-2026





SEPTEMBER 2026
September 7 - Labor Day
September 10-15 - New York Fashion Week Spring Summer 2027
September 11 - New Moon 18° Virgo
September 11-13 - Rosh Hashanah - Jewish New Year 5786
September 11 - 25th Anniversary of 9/11 Patriots Day
September 13 - Grandparents' Day
September 14 - Primetime Emmy Awards
September 19 - October 4 - Oktoberfest
September 20 - Yom Kippur
September 21 - International Day of Peace
September 22 - Autumnal Equinox
September 23 - Sun in Libra
September 25 - Chinese Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
September 25 - October 2 - Sukkot
September 26 - Full Harvest Moon 3° Aries
September 27 - MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs)


Reading with Ellie




Crystalinks Turns 31




Saturday September 5, 2026     10:00 AM ET


Ellie's World Blog Today
Remembering Gloria Steinem
Files About Women Updated Pics, Text
9/1/91 - I am Home
We Live In Another Age of Flood Stories
Grand Canyon Index


When a New Glenn rocket blew apart at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in May, it released ultra-low-frequency sound waves that reached as far as Texas. Researchers estimate that the blast was roughly equivalent to the Chernobyl reactor explosion of 1986.

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Under extreme magnetic fields, scientists discovered electrons in a topological material behaving in a way conventional theory says should not happen.

Scientists Push Molecules on a Surface to the Ultimate Quantum Limit

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Scientists have turned ordinary knitting into shape-shifting smart fabric that can snap, sense movement, and control electronics.

World’s First Heat-Powered Cooling System Turns Waste Heat Into Cold

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A tropical warming event helped drive record snowfall and a temporary 695-billion-ton ice gain in East Antarctica without reversing long-term Antarctic ice loss.

Giant Greenland iceberg slams into Joe Island and survives

'A worrying snapshot': Satellite image shows large patches of open water less than 40 miles from the North Pole

Lakes aren't just storing water - they're changing the carbon cycle

Indonesia's Mt. Anak Krakatau erupts, spews rocks, volcanic ash. No potential for collapse large enough to trigger tsunami

2025's Megaquake Appears to Have Awakened a Volcano That Was Dormant For 500 Years

Ocean indicators NOAA scientists are tracking for El Nino's arrival on the West Coast

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3,200-year-old inscription may point to a long-lost ancient Egyptian city from the time of Ramesses II

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Researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated that a key cellular enzyme can accurately read an eight-letter genetic alphabet, doubling the four letters used by all known life on Earth.

These Brain Cells May Explain Why We Eventually Have To Sleep

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Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


September 5, 1964

Kristian Alfonso - Filmography - Videos

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.




September 5, 1939

William Devane - Videos - Filmography

I've played the President of the United States in: The Missiles of October (1974), Stargate SG-1 (1997), Stargate Continuum (2008), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), 24 (2001-2010), 24: Live Another Day (2014), more. It's a tough role on-screen and off.




September 5, 1962

Peter Wingfield - Videos - Filmography

I played the legendary oldest Immortal, Methos in the TV Series "Highlander".
Being immortal is both a blessing and a curse.




September 5, 1989

Katerina Graham - Videos - Filmography

I am more vintage than I am high fashion.




September 5, 1951

Michael Keaton - Videos - Filmography

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.




September 5, 1929 - July 18, 2024

Bob Newhart - Videos - Filmography

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event,
deal with it and then move on.




September 5, 1892 - March 14, 1967

Therkel Mathiassen Danish Explorer - Arctic, Greenland


A landscape that is frozen yet strong, fills men's souls to the brim,
though it never stirs. ~ Therkel Mathiassen


Less than 100 years later, both the Artic and Greenland are melting.

Did Mathiassen and his men ever envision the current landscape?




September 5, 973 - December 13, 1048

Al-Biruni - Videos



Astrolabe

Persian mathematician, polymath, physicist, scholar, encyclopedist,
philosopher, astronomer, astrologer, traveler, historian, pharmacist,
and teacher - one of the greatest scientists of Islam and all time.


The life of the world depends upon sowing and procreating.
Both processes increase in the course of time.
This increase is unlimited, while the world is limited.




Friday September 4, 2026     7:00 PM ET


Hubble spots a mysterious 10-sided 'decagon' growing around Saturn's south pole

Why doesn't Venus have a moon? A new study may have the answer

A pair of spacecraft draw closer to Mercury after nearly decade-long voyage

Newly discovered 1666 manuscript may trace four-lens telescope experiments to Galileo

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Scientists Just Challenged a Century-Old Theory of How Crystals Form

New Twist on the Einstein Problem Reveals Unexpected Physics

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Wild Experiment Reveals Quantum Objects Do Obey Gravity

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El Nino forecast to become very strong by late 2026, raising extreme weather risks into 2027

How El Nino is choking the Panama Canal

Volunteers fight uphill battle against Indonesian fires

Antarctic expedition reveals why Southern Ocean clouds remain one of climate science's greatest challenges

Permafrost melt could cost $261 billion in infrastructure damages

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Is intelligence really passed down by our parents? What science says today

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Away from grand temples, a recycled Bronze Age burial mound became the focus of a Roman religious complex

Traces of nearly 4 million coins reveal how Rome achieved economic integration

A multidisciplinary study has answered key questions about how agricultural practices diffused into ancient Gansu from Eurasia, as well as described population movements and burial practices in the Gansu region thousands of years ago.

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'Empty nest' can trigger loneliness and loss in older parents, study finds




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


September 4, 1981

Beyonce Knowles - Videos - Discography - Filmography - Videography

Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have
to depend on someone telling you who you are.




September 4, 1960

Damon Wayans - Videos - Filmography


For my family, comedy is always key.




September 4, 1866 - June 23, 1945

Simon Lake - History of Submarines - Videos

Simon Lake was a American mechanical engineer and naval
architect - over 200 hundred patents for advances in naval design.
He built the first submarines for the US Navy, including the The Argonaut.


Submarines will navigate the oceans in the future while space ships navigate the stars.





Thursday September 3, 2026     7:00 PM ET


NASA scientists discover a giant 10-sided pattern on Saturn

The universe has plenty of hydrogen. So why is star formation collapsing?

Scientists Find a New Way To Hear the Faint “Ringing” of Black Holes

JWST Captures Stunning Evidence of How Supermassive Black Holes Feed

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'There is no conflict between quantum physics and gravity': Physicists prove Einstein's 'happiest thought' holds true at quantum scales

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upercooled water enables 3D printing of ice

OpenAI begins rollout of new powerful AI model GPT-6 Astra

Tesla to launch self-driving 'Cybercab' in Texas

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Leading Theory For How Life on Earth Began Is 'Highly Unlikely', Says Contentious New Paper

An ancient 'supervolcano' has been found hiding beneath eastern England. But experts say there's not enough evidence to call it that.

New Mexico's largest reservoir plunges to just 1.4% full

Strong M6.3 earthquake hits near Nikolski, Alaska

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FDA clears blood test for Alzheimer disease

Scientists Find More Than 1,000 Genetic Variants Linked to Personality

Is intelligence really passed down by our parents? What science says today

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Antique 'Fox Head' Bought at Auction Wasn't a Fox at All. It Was a Long-Extinct Species.

Rare Ancient Treasure Trove Stolen - But Thieves Left The Most Valuable Item Behind

Lavish private bath used by Roman emperor and 'high-status residents' discovered at imperial palace in Serbia

Archaeologists Discover 1,200-Year-Old Hairless Dog at Ancient Peruvian Site

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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women's Movement, Dies at 92

Maria Bartiromo Is Out at Fox News

Tensions flare in Lindsay Clancy courtroom over holdout juror

Dolly Parton did so much in her life to help others. In her final days, I think she did one last thing that will help millions of people, if we pay attention to her warning and take action.

With Japan tightening rules for foreign residents, some wonder if it’s time to say sayonara. Only 3.4% of Japan's population is immigrants.




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


September 3, 1995



eBay is founded

The first item sold was a broken laser pointer for $14.83.


eBay came online two months after Crystalinks. Both have grown through
the years as a portal to helping others find what they're looking for.


Pierre Omidyar: eBay founder and Internet Entrepreneur


What makes eBay successful? The real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's buyers and sellers coming together to form a marketplace.




September 3, 1965

Charlie Sheen - Videos - Filmography

Life all comes down to a few moments.
This is one of them.




September 3, 1984

Garrett Hedlund - Videos - Filmography

Life is about finding out why you are here.




September 3, 1856-1924

Louis Henry Sullivan Architect
"Father of Skyscrapers" - Mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright.

This is Louis Henry Sullivan's most famous maxim, originally written in his 1896 article "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered." It became a foundational principle for modern 20th-century architecture.




Wednesday September 2, 2026     7:00 PM ET


More than 120 molecular species found in giant cloud near Milky Way's center

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The hidden chemistry behind glow-in-the-dark art

Chemists design extra-sticky adhesives that degrade on command

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A search for one mysterious particle unexpectedly revealed evidence for two different structures that may belong to the bizarre family of exotic subatomic particles known as XYZ states

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Personality pairing improves human-AI collaboration

A new kind of AI that does its thinking cheaply without words

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Warning signs were visible ahead of Nepal-China floods, report says

Video: A megadrought has drained Lake Mead by 70%, exposing sunken boats and a bathtub ring now nearly 19 stories tall. Bill Weir travels to the West's largest reservoir as the states face a reckoning over who gives up their share first.

Global warming will exceed limit, U.N. says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone

Apple Maps changes name of Lake Ontario to Lake America

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Sleep likely to be overlooked in back-to-school rush, survey finds

Study Challenges a Decades-Old Belief About Why Children Struggle To Read

Migraine may leave bodywide clues, AI analysis of 43,000 people suggests

'Broken heart syndrome' can look just like a heart attack. This test can tell them apart

Money problems may age your brain faster

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A coffee-table-size scorpion roamed Earth before forests existed

Paleontologists Spent 20 Years Dating Thousands of Fossils - Here's What They Found

New dinosaurs are popping up in Africa. Scientists think it could be just the ‘tip of the iceberg’

Dead Sea Scrolls May Solve a Decades-Old Mystery About the Qumran Calendar

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About 5,000 U.S. sailors and Marines are stopping in the resort city of Pattaya for a rest and relaxation break as they return home from a record-setting deployment in the Middle East




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


September 2, 1966

Salma Hayek - Videos - Filmography

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.




September 2, 1951

Mark Harmon - Videos - Filmography

I've always looked at fame as an illusion.
The job is what's real, so I focus on that.




September 2, 1964

Keanu Reeves - Videos - Filmography

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.




September 2, 1968

Cynthia Watros - Videos - Filmography

Every event in life can be causing only one of two things. Either it is good for you, or it
brings up what you need to look at in order to create good for you when you are lost.




September 2, 1966

Tuc Watkins - Videos - Filmography

I became an actor to do three things: ride a horse, shoot a gun and get killed.




September 2, 1948

Terry Bradshaw - Videos

Former American football quarterback - Co-host Fox NFL Sunday

Play is often based on with the camera captures.




September 2, 1936 - March 21, 2016

Andrew Grove Co-founder and CEO of Intel Corporation - Videos

A corporation is a living organism. It has to continue to shed its skin.
Methods, Focus, and Values have to change especially today.
The sum total of those changes is transformation.




September 2, 1948 - January 28, 1986

Christa McAuliffe Astronaut - Videos - Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster


To touch the sky and see the future before everything goes up in a puff of smoke.




Tuesday September 1, 2026     7:00 PM ET


NASA has brought two of Swift's telescopes back online after technical problems derailed a commercial mission intended to rescue the aging observatory by raising its orbit.

NASA delays Crew-13 launch after leak found on SpaceX Dragon

Giant impact could have formed an intact moon within five hours, simulations suggest

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Experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter

Breakthrough Evidence: Nuclear Fusion 'Flaw' Could Actually Be Part of The Solution

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Scientists build tiny robots without motors that can fly using sound waves alone

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NWS heat advisories cover parts of 17 states on September 1, heat indices up to 43° C (110° F)

Humanity's Carbon Signature Is Now Embedded Deep in the Ocean

Planting crops in fields of solar panels is more efficient, protects the plants and helps keep workers cool, study finds

Scientists Put Sensors on Narwhals. They Revealed Something Troubling Beneath Greenland's Glaciers

A Mysterious Island Has Emerged in a Canadian Lake

A massive plume deep beneath Africa is pulling the continent apart

One of Earth's driest places Chile's Atacama Desert was just covered in snow

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Brain Scans Reveal a Surprising Dopamine Difference in Autism

The Brain Makes New Neurons Even in Adulthood. Depression May Stop It

Scientists Discover a Hidden Immune Organ Inside the Skull

A once-nightly pill could offer a new way to treat obstructive sleep apnea without a CPAP machine

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Resin-mounted wallaby teeth reveal rare 1,200-year-old ornaments in Queensland

Old-growth tropical forests bear lasting legacy of ancient Maya civilization

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9/11 responders passed effects of trauma to their children, study finds




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


September is National Preparedness Month

Earth Changes




September 1, 1996

Zendaya Coleman - Filmography - Video - Discography

Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try
so hard to be different, just try hard to be you.




September 1, 1970

Padma Lakshmi Author, model, activist, chef, TV host - Videos

There's a built-in romance to wine.




September 1, 1939

Lily Tomlin - Videos - Filmography

When I first came to California I never thought I'd see the day smoke
and devastating wildfires would become part of the landscape.




September 1, 1957

Gloria Estefan - Videos - Discography - Filmography

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women,
regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.




September 1, 1975

Scott Speedman - Videos - Filmography

Sometimes I walk by the shore to figure out what's going on in the world.




September 1, 1826 - January 1, 1896

Alfred Ely Beach

Alfred Beach was an American inventor, publisher and patent lawyer.

The first subway of New York City had a
single station located at Warren Street.

Passengers were carried in a car pushed forward by
the pneumatic pressure generated by a huge fan.

At the end of the tunnel, the car stopped.

The "motorman" rang a bell to signal the fan operators to reverse the flowing.


The car was then "sucked" back to Warren Street station.




Monday August 31, 2026     7:00 PM ET


All about the Roman Space Telescope

The universe is still speeding up, but nobody knows why

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A Major Quantum Computing Problem May Finally Have an Answer: Can We Trust the Results?

Scientists discover two superconducting states hiding as one

A quantum bath puts quantum entanglement on autopilot

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Ultrasound-based speaker delivers targeted music without disturbing nearby listeners

Researcher explores what consciousness really means and whether it might one day emerge in a machine

Scientists build tiny robots without motors that can fly using sound waves alone

AI Searched 150 Million Materials - and Found Two Promising Candidates for Future Electronics

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Global Warming Is Breaking The Link Between Two Major Oceans

Six Never-Before-Seen Mystery Structures Found Lurking Deep Inside The Earth

Hundreds of hidden earthquakes found at Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier

The next Cascadia megaquake could hit Oregon harder than expected

1 dead and about 15 people may be missing as flash flood tears through the Grand Canyon

Sharp rise in number of people missing in Nepal as floods death toll exceeds 900

Thousands of Giant Whales Are Suddenly Flooding Into an Arctic Feeding Frenzy

Antarctica is home to microbes found nowhere else on Earth

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Researchers Have Discovered a New Way To Reduce Chronic Nerve Pain

Scientists Discover a Brain Signal Linked to Severe Suicidal Thoughts

The FDA Just Approved The First US Freeze-Dried Plasma, Ready in Minutes

Your Body Has a 'Second Heart', And It's Crucial You Keep It Pumping

Deep Sleep Brain Waves Offer Protection Against Alzheimer's Disease, New Research Shows

'Wildfire smoke is the fastest-growing environmental threat in the US': How a warming world will poison the air we breathe

Scientists Find a Troubling Effect of Sitting That Exercise Couldn't Prevent

FDA Clears First-of-Its-Kind Nonmedication Treatment for PTSD

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Aboriginal artists painted giant ancestral beings as colonization arrived, study finds

A snake-headed vessel hints at a mysterious Roman cult

A Permian fossil may reveal the oldest known flowering-plant structure

Archaeologists Discover Evidence of Brands 3,200 Years Before Modern Capitalism

Strange 'hobbit' species walked more like us than like 'Lucy,' hip bones reveal

A 1.4-million-year-old footprint trail reveals a surprisingly large group of ancient human relatives traveling together along a Kenyan lakeshore.

80,000-Year-Old Arrowheads Could Rewrite the Story of How Humans Reached Europe

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Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Ballroom Construction Can Proceed, Supreme Court Says

Queen Camilla puts past differences with Prince Harry aside as King Charles seeks closer family ties: experts

Harry & William Set 1st Potential Reunion After the Duke's Move Back to the UK as His Hurt Brother Reportedly Vows to Give Him the Silent Treatment

Lionel Richie hospitalized in St Louis after summer of health scares and canceled concerts

Amid backlash, museum cancels planned Met Gala exhibit on fashion designer John Galliano

Inside 'The Kelly Clarkson Show' finale, from the tears to her kids' cameos




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


August 31, 1949

Richard Gere - Videos - Filmography

Everyone responds to kindness.




August 31, 1972

Chris Tucker - Videos - Filmography

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base
to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.




August 31, 1975

Sara Ramirez - Videos - Filmography

I always knew I would transition one day when the time was right.




August 31, 1970

Zack Ward - Videos - Filmography

Sometimes life gets rough around the edges, then it all changes.




August 31, 1945

Itzhak Perlman - Israeli Violinist - Videos

I think a teacher should be your musical guide.




August 31, 1913 - August 6, 2012

Sir Bernard Lovell Physicist, Radio Astronomer - Videos


The answers are out there and one day I will find them.