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Friday August 14, 2026

Steve Martin - August 14, 1945 - Filmography - Videos

Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

"The X-Files: I Want to Believe" is a 2008 American supernatural thriller film directed by Chris Carter, and written by Carter and Frank Spotnitz. It is the second feature film installment of The X-Files franchise created by Carter, following the 1998 film. Three main actors from the television series, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and Mitch Pileggi, reappear in the film to reprise their respective roles as Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, and Walter Skinner.

Unlike the first film, the plot does not focus on the series' ongoing extraterrestrial-based mytharc themes, but instead works as a standalone thriller horror story, like many of the monster-of-the-week episodes frequently seen in the TV series, as well as focusing on the personal relationship between Mulder and Scully.

The story follows Mulder and Scully who have been out of the FBI for several years, with Mulder living in isolation and Scully having become a doctor at a Catholic hospital, where she has formed a bond with a critically ill child patient. When an FBI agent is mysteriously kidnapped and a former Catholic priest who has been convicted of pedophilia claims to be experiencing psychic visions of the endangered agent, Scully is asked to bring Mulder back to the bureau to consult on the case because of his work with psychics. The narrative goes through the push and pull of his at-first reluctant involvement and Scully's attempts to stay out of it.

The film was first anticipated in November 2001 to follow the conclusion of the ninth season of the television series, but it remained in development hell for six years before entering production in December 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The film premiered on July 23, 2008, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood before opening theatrically two days later on July 25. The worldwide gross was $68.4 million from a $30 million budget. It received mixed reviews; critics praised the chemistry between Duchovny and Anderson while criticizing the plot.

A director's cut of the film, titled "The X-Files: I Want to Believe - Vrach Frankenshteyn", which will restore horror elements that were previously removed, was released on Hulu on August 14, 2026.

R-rated director's cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter's original horror vision

Chris Carter on his director's cut of 'The X-Files: I Want To Believe- Vrach Frankenshteyn'

'The X-Files' creator Chris Carter says new director's cut of 'I Want to Believe' is 'the horror movie that we really wanted to make' (interview)

August 15, 1977

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The Wow! signal was a powerful, 72-second narrowband radio burst detected on August 15, 1977, by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States. It is widely considered one of the most compelling and famous anomalies in the history of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The signal appeared to come from the direction of the Constellation Sagittarius and bore expected hallmarks of extraterrestrial origin - but to date no one is certain.

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AI and the Wow! Signal - Crop Formation at Alton Barnes, Wiltshire 1996

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The Real Curriculum

August is the time of the year I read teachers and students returning to school with hopes and dreams of what the future will hold for them.

Older students are already aware that artificial intelligence will reshape, and in some cases replace, many of the jobs that exist today. They are growing up in a world of rapidly changing political, social, scientific, and geophysical influences that shape the future.

Many young students don't remember a time when Donald Trump wasn't a constant presence in the headlines, surrounded by personal controversies and global dramas. To them, the traditional Republican and Democratic establishments can appear increasingly disconnected from the realities of today's society, and they are correct.

"Change" is the key even when they don't know what door that will open.

What is more difficult to understand is that changing the way a country is governed - or how humanity evolves - will never eliminate conflict and uncertainty. There will always be competing ideas, opposing forces, personal ambitions, unexpected events, and problems for which there are no simple solutions.

Perhaps that is one of the fundamental conditions of our existence as the humanity experiment exist in a bipolar (physical) reality, where opposites continually interact - order and chaos, creation and destruction, hope and fear, progress and resistance, etc.

Every generation enters the future believing it can create something better. Parents hope to create a better future for their children than that in which they grew up.

Hope may be one of humanity's greatest assets - but it can also become one of its greatest failures when mistaken for certainty.

The human brain is programmed to learn from the day someone is born - through observation, repeating what they see and hear, playtime and more - it is all built into the human experience.

Triggering all of this is the need to remember who we are, why we're here, and where it's all going ... sometimes at the forefront of someone's consciousness, both mentally and emotionally.

Physically, you know your highest level of education - unless you are still in school.

If you were to look at yourself emotionally ... what grade would you be in?

For many the answer would take them to elementary school when something physically and emotionally broke - abuse, loss. They never moved past it - defining them to this day.

Some would answer middle and high school because that's when emotions and hormones rule and are often out of control - the bullying years that are often very traumatic.

Mental illness highlights generally after high school - having nothing to do with higher education, but more to do with emotional programming in the human experiment.

It would seem that mental illness is increasing in today's world, but I don't believe that to be so. It was always there, but now more and more young people are acting on it in a way that attracts the attention of society - such as mass shootings - often influenced by social media.

Becoming aware and actually finding a solution to those who are mentally ill is a long and tedious process of trial and error. Not everyone finds a solution or one that is long lasting. I find this very sad, especially for those involved, and those who love them, or are responsible for them. A prime example of that would be Rob and Michelle Reiner - murdered by their schizophrenic son, Nick.

To consider yourself emotionally at the university level means - at the very least - to peripherally understand how things work and are waiting for the human experiment to finish. It also means you're lucky enough to have good programming.

Reality ends with the eclipse of consciousness in the alchemy of time.