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NOVEMBER 2025
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Sunday November 15, 2025     7:00 PM ET


Ellie's World Blog Today
Orionid Meteor Showers
The Failing Film Industry - A Mirror of a Dying Reality


First Vera Rubin Observatory image reveals hidden structure as long as the Milky Way trailing behind a nearby galaxy

AI creates the first 100-billion-star Milky Way simulation

Microquasars emerge as the Milky Way's most extreme particle engines

Dark matter may be the Universe's great unknown, but scientists just pulled off one of the sharpest tests yet of how it actually behaves.

New Study Suggests Early Mars Hosted Conditions Suitable for Life

Scientists Create Key To Find Alien Life in Clouds

Our Solar System Is Moving 3x Faster Than Scientists Expected

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Extreme-pressure experiment reveals a strange new ice phase

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A single beam of light runs AI with supercomputer power

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Shock Discovery Reveals Sea Urchins Are Basically 'All Brain'

Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests

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New Breakthrough Could Help Prevent The Devastating Impact of Glaucoma

A Crucial Genetic Mutation Behind Crohn's Disease Has Finally Been Revealed

One of Our Biggest Hopes For Alzheimer's Treatment Doesn't Seem to Work

Scientists Discover a Diet That Can Prevent and Reverse a Key Type of Heart Disease

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Imagery from 4,000-year-old goblet might depict a cosmic creation story, not Enuma Elish myth

Rome is famous for its gladiators, but were any of these fighters women?

Archaeologists Stunned: Bronze Age Ingot Found in Sweden Is Not What It Seems

Ancient lead exposure may have subtly shaped human evolution, giving our lineage neurological advantages over Neanderthals.

Scientists recover 40,000-year-old mammoth RNA still packed with clues

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What's inside the thousands of Epstein estate documents released by House committee

Trump feuds with Marjorie Taylor Greene as House vote on releasing Epstein files looms

With the end of the penny, is the clock ticking for the nickel?




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


November 16, 1993

Pete Davidson - Videos - Career

Pete Davidson and his girlfriend, Elsie Hewitt, are expecting their first child together. They have been open about their excitement for the baby's arrival, with Davidson expressing his eagerness to provide a stable and loving childhood. Pete is in the process of having his tattoos removed estimating the process will take 10 years as it is a painful process. To date his hands and facial tattoos have been removed.




November 16, 1964

Harry Lennix - Videos - Filmography

People learn who they are by the images of
themselves, the representations that they seek.




November 16, 1958

Marg Helgenberger - Videos - Filmography

My career has been a menagerie of successes and failures.




November 16, 1977

Maggie Gyllenhaal - Videos - Filmography

You're not going to do good work if you're not
choosing something because it inspires you.




November 16, 1972

Missi Pyle - Videos - Filmography

I really love being a character actor.




November 16, 1970

Martha Plimpton - Videos - Filmography

I am terrified for the women in this crazy world.




November 16, 1908 - September 9, 1997

Burgess Meredith Played The Penguin - Videos - Filmography


A little bird once whispered in my ear ...

In the end the Penguin (Antarctica) returns and everything ceases to exist.


Thoth the bird-headed Egyptian god/scribe wrote the story of reality


Thoth depicted as a Penguin, Ibis, Alligator, and Snake





Saturday November 14, 2025     7:00 PM ET


Astronomers spot a rare planet-stripping eruption on a nearby star

Astronomers Discover Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Just 18 Light-Years Away

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Scientists Discovered a Time Crystal That Reveals a New Way to Order Time

Scientists Uncover a Hidden Energy Cost in Quantum Timekeeping

Scientists to Use Earth Itself as a Giant Sensor in Hunt for New Physics

Breakthrough shows light can move atoms in 2D semiconductors

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Hypersonic breakthrough could enable planes that fly 10 times the speed of sound

This Magnetic Discovery Could Be the Key to Ultrafast, Low-Energy Chips

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New Research Solves 100-Year Mystery of the Atlantic's 'Cold Blob'

Scientists Discover Earth's Continents Are Slowly Being 'Peeled' From Below

Satellites Spot 115 Foot Monster Waves From Pacific Megastorm

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Some People Never Forget a Face, And Now We Know Their Secret

The Eye's Maximum Resolution Is Even Higher Than We Thought

CRISPR brings back ancient gene that prevents gout and fatty liver

Stanford Scientists Discover Aging May Suppress Cancer, Not Fuel It

Extremely Simple New Drug Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms in Rats

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Ancient Chinese tombs reveal a hidden 4,000-year pattern - how history, migration, and geography shaped centuries of burial traditions.

Science finally solves a 700-year-old royal murder

55-million-year-old fossils reveal bizarre crocs that dropped from trees

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25 Movies, Many Stars, 0 Hits: Hollywood Falls to New Lows

Breaking down the looming House vote on the Epstein files

Trump rescinds support for Marjorie Taylor Greene, marking major political breakup




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


November 15, 1972

Jonny Lee Miller - Videos - Filmography

I enjoy playing complicated characters who use
their minds to get out of situations that look hopeless.




November 15, 1991

Shailene Woodley - Videos - Filmography

I really respond to human scripts,
scripts that are raw and real and risky.




November 15, 1940

Sam Waterston - Videos - Filmography

There is no problem that is not improved by effort,
and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.




November 15, 1973

Sydney Tamiia Poitier - Videos - Filmography

Having a famous father can be both a positive and a
negative in a career. My dad was the best. I am lucky.




November 15, 1929 - August 29, 2021

Edward Asner - Videos - Filmography

Reporting the news has become instantaneous in the
age of technology but the news still begs the question
What is fact and what is fiction?




November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986

Georgia O'Keeffe - Videos

Georgia O'Keeffe was an American artist
associated with the American Southwest.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life. I've
never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that
I couldn't say any other way, things I had no words for.




November 15, 1887 - February 5, 1972

Marianne Moore Poet, Writer - Videos

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.




November 15, 1783 - August 25,1822

William Herschel Invented modern astronomy, Discovered Uranus - Videos

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me.

I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved,
must take two million years to reach the Earth.




Friday November 14, 2025     7:00 PM ET


The inner core of the Moon is a solid ball with a density similar to that of iron

Scientists Capture The Moment a Supernova Rips Open Its Star

Breakthrough: Blue Origin Nails Booster Landing in Historic Mars Launch

Race for first private space station heats up as NASA set to retire ISS

Blue Origin Lands Booster After Rocket Launch and Matches SpaceX's Feat

What should you do if you find a meteorite? Space rock experts explain

Black hole mergers could give rise to observable gravitational-wave tails

Our solar system is moving faster than expected

Twin Mars orbiters launched on New Glenn rocket to study Martian atmosphere

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Google's DeepMind cracks a century-old physics mystery with AI

AI at the speed of light just became a possibility

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On this date - Chemists discover buckyballs - the most perfect molecules in existence - Nov. 14, 1985

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'Great Unified Microscope' Reveals Hidden Micro and Nano Worlds Inside Living Cells

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Major X4.0 solar flare erupts, producing fast CME and solar radiation storm

California braces for multi-day atmospheric river with elevated flash-flood potential

Underwater volcano off Oregon coast likely won't erupt until mid-to-late 2026

Massive hidden waves are rapidly melting Greenland's glaciers

Satellite images reveal the fastest Antarctic glacier retreat ever

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Scientists Identify Neurons Driving Anxiety - And How to Calm Them

One of the world's most common viral infections could underlie virtually every case of lupus - Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)

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Yuka The Woolly Mammoth Just Gave Us The Oldest RNA Ever Sequenced

Archaeologists discover 1,500-year-old reindeer trap and other artifacts 'melting out of the ice' in Norway's mountains

Tiny 95-Million-Year-Old Croc Relative Baffles Scientists With Its Strange Teeth

Ancient condors thrived on Peru's northern coast before retreating to the highlands, study reveals

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House Speaker Mike Johnson decided to quickly schedule a House vote on an effort to force the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein case files once the calculation was made that it couldn't be stopped

Researchers say they have verified and sequenced Hitler's DNA. A new documentary reveals the findings

Hitler's DNA reveals possible genetic disorder tied to sexual and social behavior

How 30-year-old eBay is making a comeback thanks to AI




Today's Events, Birthdays and Quotes


November 14, 1972

Josh Duhamel - Videos - Filmography

I feel like a regular dude who happens to be incredibly lucky.




November 14, 1964

Patrick Warburton - Videos - Filmography

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all.




November 14, 1948

King Charles III - Videos

The future of this country depends on its ability to adapt, innovate, and come together in common purpose - to face challenges with courage and hope.

The King celebrated his 77th birthday in Wales, marking his reign as surprisingly successful despite ongoing family controversies and health issues.




November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926

Claude Monet Painter - Videos - Impressionism

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Ellie at MOMA - Monet's "Water Lilies"




November 14, 1878 - July 14, 1966

Julie Manet - Video - French Painter - Niece of Edouard Manet.

Look within your art work to understand the emotional
boundaries in which your soul experiences.




November 14, 1912 - November 15, 2003

Tung-Yen Lin Structural Engineer, 100 Bridges - Videos

Bridges not only link things within a nation, but link nations together.




November 14, 1765 - February 24, 1815

Robert Fulton - Videos

Robert Fulton was an American engineer and
inventor who is widely credited with developing
the first commercially successful steamboat.

Steamboat adventures brought good fortune to some but trials and tribulations to others.