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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for September 2009

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/30/2009 4:04 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Two pieces by Japanese artist Hiroshige (1797-1858)

Posted by kluciole at 9/30/2009 3:50 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/30/2009 3:42 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2009 2:54 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2009 2:50 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2009 2:27 PM | Add Comment

Quotes from John Muir

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2009 1:18 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2009 1:13 AM | Add Comment

5 Germy Habits You Should Probably Try to Break

Posted by kluciole at 9/29/2009 1:07 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2009 1:53 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Gorgeous photos of butterflies from around the world

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2009 1:46 PM | Add Comment

Military may lift ban on women in submarines

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2009 1:43 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2009 1:39 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2009 1:47 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2009 1:37 AM | Add Comment

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"

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2009 1:13 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2009 1:10 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2009 1:13 PM | Add Comment

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)

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2009 12:07 PM | Add Comment

The 10 least visited U.S. national parks

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2009 12:00 PM | Add Comment

Endangered Ugandan gorillas join Facebook, MySpace

Posted by kluciole at 9/26/2009 11:47 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2009 10:55 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2009 10:48 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2009 10:45 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Fanged frog, 162 other new species found in Mekong

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2009 10:37 AM | Add Comment

School drinking water contains toxins

Posted by kluciole at 9/25/2009 10:31 AM | Add Comment

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"

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2009 11:18 AM | Add Comment

A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2009 11:12 AM | Add Comment

Geography makes a difference in health coverage

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2009 11:06 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2009 10:58 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2009 10:45 AM | Add Comment

Archaeologists find suspected Trojan war-era couple

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2009 10:38 AM | Add Comment

Cammy: A New Canadian Lake Monster?

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2009 10:26 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2009 10:22 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2009 11:51 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2009 11:48 AM | Add Comment

Report: 35 million-plus worldwide have dementia

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2009 11:45 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/21/2009 11:41 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2009 11:42 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Poem: "By The Arno" (Oscar Wilde)

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2009 11:32 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2009 11:25 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2009 11:21 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2009 11:17 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/20/2009 11:16 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2009 8:41 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2009 8:30 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2009 8:25 AM | Add Comment

One in seven Germans want the Berlin Wall back?

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2009 8:18 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/19/2009 8:08 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2009 8:08 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2009 7:29 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2009 7:16 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2009 7:10 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2009 6:57 AM | Add Comment

Thousands march in Iran opposition protests

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2009 7:58 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2009 7:44 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2009 7:41 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2009 7:27 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2009 8:30 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Israel rejects independent inquiry into Gaza war

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2009 8:18 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2009 1:30 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2009 1:12 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/15/2009 11:42 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/15/2009 11:33 AM | Add Comment

Exquisite: Quiet thrills in the autumnal Blue Ridge

Posted by kluciole at 9/15/2009 7:29 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Key master gene that can KILL cancer identified by British scientists

Posted by kluciole at 9/15/2009 7:22 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

107-year-old Malaysian woman seeks 23rd hubby

Posted by kluciole at 9/15/2009 7:19 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2009 8:54 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2009 8:50 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2009 8:35 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2009 8:31 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2009 8:27 AM | Add Comment

Chlorine in Pools Raises Kids' Asthma, Allergy Risk

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2009 8:21 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/13/2009 9:14 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/13/2009 9:09 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the Bow of Orion (northern lights)

Posted by kluciole at 9/13/2009 2:47 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/13/2009 2:31 AM | Add Comment

Dangerous staph germs (MRSA) found at West Coast beaches

Posted by kluciole at 9/13/2009 2:16 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/13/2009 2:03 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/13/2009 2:01 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/12/2009 1:20 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/12/2009 1:17 AM | Add Comment

Extinct New Zealand eagle may have eaten humans

Posted by kluciole at 9/12/2009 1:09 AM | Add Comment

Two Genes May Determine How Well MS Patients Do

Posted by kluciole at 9/12/2009 1:04 AM | Add Comment

A Great Week to See the Milky Way

Posted by kluciole at 9/12/2009 12:54 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2009 1:31 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2009 1:28 AM | Add Comment

Medvedev laments Russia's democracy, economy

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2009 1:24 AM | Add Comment

Gazans improvise to honor Ramadan traditions

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2009 1:13 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2009 1:10 AM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/11/2009 12:59 AM | Add Comment

Newly fixed Hubble's deep space photos again amaze

Posted by kluciole at 9/9/2009 10:46 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/9/2009 10:40 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/9/2009 10:34 PM | Add Comment

Walruses congregate on Alaska shore as ice melts

Posted by kluciole at 9/9/2009 10:31 PM | Add Comment

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)

Posted by kluciole at 9/9/2009 10:22 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2009 11:28 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

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"

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2009 11:21 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2009 11:09 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment
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