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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for September 2009

Roman Emperor Nero's legendary rotating dining room uncovered by archaeologists

Two pieces by Japanese artist Hiroshige (1797-1858)

One day after the earthquake and tsunami in Samoa, another huge earthquake rocks Indonesia

Photo: Indian artists dressed as Hindu gods Rama and Laxman look on from a tableau during a Dussehra festival procession

Article from Luciole friend Seth Shostak: "Weird Ways to Search for ET"

Happy Early Birthday Skip! Here is info on the Skip Heller Trio's performance on 10/04 in Santa Monica

Quotes from John Muir

Photo: morning fog in Switzerland, near the German town of Rathen

5 Germy Habits You Should Probably Try to Break

Photo: people form a huge mosaic of colored paper in Madrid, in support of the city's 2016 Olympic bid

Gorgeous photos of butterflies from around the world

Military may lift ban on women in submarines

Lucy of 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' fame dies; she suffered from lupus

A still photo from "The Crimson Wing" -- Filmmakers spent 14 months living at Lake Natron, the remote salt lake where the flamingos flock to breed

Excerpt from a short story by Jeanette Winterson, in response to the climate crisis

Buckingham University vice-chancellor Terence Kealey calls female students "a perk of the job" and "encourages lecturers to enjoy gazing at, even fantasising about, attractive female students"

Photo: a man takes a picture of a colony of coral grass at Lake Notoro in Abashiri, on Japan's nothern island of Hokkaido

Renowned Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha has died; she was 86

Socrates the cat weighs in at 22 pounds (and looks a lot like Luciole's Baby the Greatest... well, a heftier version. Baby IS pretty lithe)

The 10 least visited U.S. national parks

Endangered Ugandan gorillas join Facebook, MySpace

Photo: a visitor admires a creation of an artist during the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Arts exhibition

NJ woman celebrates 100th birthday — at work. Astrid Thoening's earliest memory is losing her father and sister in the flu pandemic of 1918

Photo: a Southern Right Whale and albino calf swim near the shore in the Western Cape, South Africa

Fanged frog, 162 other new species found in Mekong

School drinking water contains toxins

2 articles: "Unearthed after 1,400 years: Amateur treasure hunter finds haul of Anglo-Saxon gold" and "Largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure found in UK"

A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection

Geography makes a difference in health coverage

Cat found wrapped head to foot in duct tape -- reward in Philadelphia "for information leading to the conviction of those responsible"

Tanvir the Bengal tiger scales 15-foot activity tower - but is too frightened to come down

Archaeologists find suspected Trojan war-era couple

Cammy: A New Canadian Lake Monster?

Photo: paddleboarding champ Jamie Mitchell is joined by a humpback whale off the coast of New South Wales

One of the coolest photos I have ever seen: Chess pieces from an art installation entitled "The Tournament at Trafalgar Square" (central London)

Video montage from "The Virgin Queen" (played brilliantly by Anne-Marie Duff). Song: "The Consort" by Rufus Wainright

Report: 35 million-plus worldwide have dementia

We have all had days like this -- Video: "Love Is Gone" by David Guetta & Chris Willis

Photo: Pakistani girls show their henna-decorated hands, ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid ul-Fitr

Poem: "By The Arno" (Oscar Wilde)

Taking a combination form of hormone replacement therapy (both estrogen and progestin) increases a woman's risk for dying from lung cancer

Photo: a glass sculpture of the swine flu (H1N1) virus by artist Luke Jerram

Article: "Cursive writing may be a fading skill, but so what?"

Sweet photo: Giant panda Lou Sheng with her female cub at the Shaanxi Rare Wildlife Breeding and Research Centre

Artist Alyssa Monks "creates incredible paintings that look like photographs"

TIME article -- Reopening the Northeast Passage, Thanks to Global Warming

Photo: Friendly looking little critters -- baby crocodiles at the La Boca crocodile farm in Cuba

One in seven Germans want the Berlin Wall back?

Photo: Chinese dancers rehearse for the National Day parade in Beijing

Photo: surfer Andrew Brooks is surprised to have dolphins as company on a wave at Cape Adieu, Australia

Videos: Luciole Press friend and contributor Graywolf interviewed by Roberta Weighill for AIM TV (American Indian Movement Santa Barbara)

Photo: Gunners from the King's Troop Royal Artillery race their horses along the shore at Blackpool beach

DNC launches website to debunk "the outrageous lies and misinformation about health reform"

Photo: an art installation of a man suspended in mid-air greets shoppers at a store opening in Tokyo

Thousands march in Iran opposition protests

Photos and article: Three bald eagles lock talons as they plunge to the ground in mid-air battle over fish

Lady Dai tomb among richest finds in China's history -- artifacts will be on display at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's exhibit "Noble Tombs at Mawangdui" from Sept. 19 to Dec. 13

Photo: sunset over the Men's Singles final between Roger Federer and Juan Martin Del Potro during the 2009 U.S. Open

TIME article -- Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? ("Is he stirring the fears of Americans who feel left out?")

Risking life for his art: Former circus performer Eskil Ronningsbakken does a one-handed handstand dangling on the edge of a towering cliff, in gorgeous Norway

Israel rejects independent inquiry into Gaza war

Art: Alphonse Mucha's "Autumn" (plus a link to the Autumn Issue of Luciole Press)

Group of American Indians who find the Washington Redskins' name offensive want the Supreme Court to take up the matter

Life was in the oceans 200 million years before oxygen made air fit to breathe

Wall Street’s New Gilded Age -- A year after the crash, a few financial giants are back to making millions, while average Americans face foreclosure and unemployment

Exquisite: Quiet thrills in the autumnal Blue Ridge

Key master gene that can KILL cancer identified by British scientists

107-year-old Malaysian woman seeks 23rd hubby

Photo: Knut, the world's most famous polar bear, in his outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Berlin.

Photo: skateboarder Ryan Decenzo jumps from one shipping container to another aboard a barge at sunset on English Bay in Vancouver

Want to go storm chasing? Here are some photos from one such adventurer ("atmospheric portraits")

City squirrels are tough critters ... Photo: a baby squirrel stares into the camera at a park in Los Angeles

Jupiter had a temporary moon for 12 years, a comet it snared as it passed by between 1949 and 1961

Chlorine in Pools Raises Kids' Asthma, Allergy Risk

Thanks to Scott Wannberg for sending me the link to this video, "Cat Takes a Bath"

Child-bride, 12, dies in Yemen after struggling to give birth for three days

Photo: the Bow of Orion (northern lights)

The incredible, thought-provoking short story "To Kill a Child," by Stig Dagerman

Dangerous staph germs (MRSA) found at West Coast beaches

Gov. Schwarzenegger to veto renewable energy bills, after California lawmakers "adopted landmark renewable energy plan"

Anti-Islamic protest fears as 2,000 Palestinian supporters gather for London rally

The spectacular photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, who captured pre-Revolutionary Russia: "Color photographs from the Russian Empire (1909-1915)"

Photo: unusual shot of a hot air balloon drifitng in the early morning sun (Reno)

Extinct New Zealand eagle may have eaten humans

Two Genes May Determine How Well MS Patients Do

A Great Week to See the Milky Way

Highway in the sky: the gravitational corridors that could help spacecraft travel the solar system

Photo: a cat sits on petfood at a market stall in Bangkok

Medvedev laments Russia's democracy, economy

Gazans improvise to honor Ramadan traditions

Photo for my mom :) -- Menari, a baby orangutan at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans

(Edit to add second article) First -- The 'You lie!' aftermath, and second --Analysis: 'You lie!' further erodes discourse

Newly fixed Hubble's deep space photos again amaze

Poem: "the last party on earth left you off the guest list" by Scott Wannberg ... (featured in the Autumn Issue of Luciole Press)

Artwork in Vienna gets onlookers asking - will he jump? ... (installation by Austrian artist Ronald Koldritsch)

Walruses congregate on Alaska shore as ice melts

The terrifying tale of John Dawson Dewhirst, a British tourist who blundered into the horror of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, and died in Cambodia's killing fields (where 2 million people were murdered)

My Gypsy childhood: Roxy Freeman never went to school. But at the age of 22, she decided to get a formal education, forcing her to face up to the prejudices that blight her Gypsy community – and to shackle her wandering spirit

Trish Deseine, a cook beloved by the French, has quietly renounced foie gras -- "You can see their livers bursting out of their skin. Nobody can tell me that's not cruel"

TIME article: Germany's New AIDS-Awareness Ad -- Starring Hitler