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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for November 2009

Blood transfusions to black holes: Royal Society publishes 350 years of scientific discoveries online

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2009 4:36 PM | Add Comment

Broadway shows returning to New Orleans

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2009 4:31 PM | Add Comment

Music: Reykjavík concert with Luciole friend/contributor Thomas Brorsen Smidt and The Esoteric Gender (plus Ljósvaki)

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2009 4:20 PM | Add Comment

Wrong Number Miracle: Mom was going to miss mortgage payment if she sent daughter food money; the stranger who took the call decided to help

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2009 4:13 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Stellar Fossils from Milky Way's Past Revealed

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 10:20 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "On Living" by Nazim Hikmet

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 10:16 PM | Add Comment

The SeaOrbiter, a giant leap for ocean exploration: what the world's first 'space station of the sea' will look like

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 10:15 PM | Add Comment

10,000 East African albinos in hiding after killings; folk belief holds that "albino body parts have magical powers"

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 10:13 PM | Add Comment

Study shows tiny magnetic discs could kill cancer cells

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 10:12 PM | Add Comment

Swiss ban mosque minarets in surprise vote

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 9:47 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a trawler sets out from Howth Harbour in Dublin in strong winds

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 9:41 PM | Add Comment

Hammerhead Sharks See 360 Degrees in Stereo

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2009 12:08 PM | Add Comment

Prison theatre drama an escape for Romanian inmates

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2009 12:04 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: Ariel, a Leonberger dog, lies happily surrounded by her record-breaking brood of 18 puppies; 9 males and 9 females

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2009 12:00 PM | Add Comment

Recession sends older Americans to food pantries

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2009 11:54 AM | Add Comment

Photos: a polar bear delights in somersaulting in the snow in Wapusk National Park

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2009 6:51 PM | Add Comment

Couture comes to the tea cup through luxury blends

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2009 6:48 PM | Add Comment

Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week in the U.K.

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2009 6:37 PM | Add Comment

6,000 camels to be round up and shot in Australian town; plan angers animal welfare groups

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2009 6:28 PM | Add Comment

Photo: workers remove ice at the Sayano-Shushenskaya power station near the Siberian village of Cheryomushki

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2009 6:23 PM | Add Comment

Body of trapped Utah spelunker won't be recovered

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2009 6:21 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the Ottoman era Suleymaniye mosque is covered by fog as the sun sets in Istanbul

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 8:37 PM | Add Comment

Video: Igor Stravinsky conducts The Firebird Suite (created for ballerina Tamara Karsavina)

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 8:21 PM | Add Comment

Well-fed Americans "Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food" (while the number of hungry Americans rose to 6.7 million last year)

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 8:05 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Cody, a chocolate labrador, greets customers at a drive-through window in Clearwater, Florida

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 8:02 PM | Add Comment

New climate targets may not change daily life much

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 7:33 PM | Add Comment

Iranian authorities confiscate Nobel Peace laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi's medal; clerics start taking control of schools

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 6:29 PM | Add Comment

History in the making: The 100 museum pieces that trace mankind from its origins to the present day

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 1:28 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "my so called thanksgiving riff for 2009"

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 1:23 AM | Add Comment

French artist Paul Delaroche's painting "Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers," thought to have been destroyed during WWII German air raid, found and in good condition

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 1:10 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: a red eyed tree frog from Costa Rica

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 1:07 AM | Add Comment

Surprise! Your Skin Can Hear

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2009 11:54 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a NASA Earth Observatory photo shows the Upsala Glacier, in the Southern Patagonian Icefield

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2009 1:21 PM | Add Comment

1,500 years after she was buried alive in Korea, scientists reconstruct a 16-year-old servant girl's image

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2009 1:16 PM | Add Comment

TIME article -- "Reburying Albert Camus: A Political Ploy by Sarkozy?"

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2009 1:06 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a scavenger looks for recyclable items in the waters of the River Yamuna in New Delhi

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2009 1:05 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an iceberg floats past an elephant seal on Australia's Macquarie Island

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2009 12:53 PM | Add Comment

Hero mother squirrel saves her baby from a dog

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2009 12:50 PM | Add Comment

Rio does away with coconuts on beaches

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2009 12:49 PM | Add Comment

Festival of mass animal sacrifice begins in Nepal... 200,000 buffaloes, goats, chickens and pigeons will be killed

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2009 12:42 PM | Add Comment

POLITICO: Lou Dobbs considering White House bid

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2009 12:36 PM | Add Comment

Quote and poem from Hafiz ("The Tulip")

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2009 6:50 PM | Add Comment

Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2009 6:47 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The Large Hadron Collider (big bang atom smasher) records first proton hits

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2009 6:39 PM | Add Comment

Photo: skeletons of Japanese World War II casualties dug up in northern Phillippines; they will be cremated and the ashes flown back to Japan

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2009 6:36 PM | Add Comment

Over 100 icebergs drifting to New Zealand, say officials, prompting shipping warnings

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2009 6:31 PM | Add Comment

Why Kids Ask Why

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2009 6:23 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Indonesian women sell their harvest in a traditional floating market on the Martapura river in Borneo

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2009 6:19 PM | Add Comment

Alert from Luciole friend S.A. Griffin: Dairyland Greyhound Racetrack in Kenosha is closing, and the greyhounds need to be adopted!

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2009 11:00 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: a three-year old male white tiger named Khane looks out of his enclosure at the Belgrade Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2009 7:33 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "In A Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2009 7:21 PM | Add Comment

Thousands of strange creatures found deep in ocean

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2009 7:18 PM | Add Comment

AP reporter caught up in Stalin family's agony; George Krimsky tried to help Stalin's grandson Josef Alliluyev contact his mother in the U.S. (and possibly defect)

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2009 7:12 PM | Add Comment

Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2009 7:06 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the snow-covered Pir Panjal mountain range in Kashmir is seen from the window of a passenger airplane

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2009 6:26 PM | Add Comment

Artist Henri Matisse: the true revolutionary who "anticipated minimalist abstraction"

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2009 6:14 PM | Add Comment

Taiwanese fashion designer Colin Lin uses recycled paper in shoemaking

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2009 6:02 PM | Add Comment

Article from Eco expert Fred Pearce: "How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world"

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2009 5:54 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2009 5:43 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Palestinian girls release balloons with messages attached, during an event organized by UNICEF to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2009 10:15 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Quote from Thich Nhat Hanh

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2009 10:11 PM | Add Comment

Luciole friends and contributors Ellyn Maybe and S.A. Griffin reading at Beyond Baroque this Sunday with Yama Lake -- tribute to artist Mark Cheka

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2009 9:57 PM | Add Comment

Weird news: Museum finds Galileo's missing fingers and tooth; they will be put on display

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2009 9:44 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: an albino Loggerhead turtle swims in an aquarium in the TAMAR Project's Visitor Center in Brazil

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2009 9:40 PM | Add Comment

Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2009 9:23 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: the Galaxy Dress has thousands of LED lights (featured at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry; it uses the same amount of electricity as two light bulbs)

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2009 8:24 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Poem: "i carry your heart with me" by E. E. Cummings

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2009 8:00 PM | Add Comment

Can anyone adopt Dalmatian Barney? His owner lost him after the dog ballooned in weight on a diet of chocolate

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2009 7:40 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: Are the Earth's Oceans Hitting Their Carbon Cap?

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2009 7:32 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Christmas lights decorate Berlin's famous shopping road Kurfuerstendamm

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2009 7:30 PM | Add Comment

Icebergs moving towards New Zealand

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2009 7:28 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a child searches for recyclable material in a garbage dump on the outskirts of Gauhati, India

Posted by kluciole at 11/19/2009 7:11 PM | Add Comment

The real rolling stones: Mystery of Death Valley's gliding rocks

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2009 3:40 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Poem: "Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2009 3:28 PM | Add Comment

Afghans say poverty, not Taliban, main cause of war

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2009 3:23 PM | Add Comment

Photo: scientists scan Egyptian mummy Esankh, a man who lived between 1070 and 712 BCE

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2009 3:20 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a view from remote site 4 as Shuttle Atlantis lifts off through the clouds

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2009 2:56 PM | Add Comment

The Alida Ivanov Gallery (to be featured in the next issue of Luciole Press) presents a one night performance by artist Nadine Byrne, "Dream State Family Magic”

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2009 2:50 PM | Add Comment

Denmark seeks specific pledges at climate talks

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2009 2:43 PM | Add Comment

Palin angered by 'sexist' Newsweek cover

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2009 2:39 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Taxis line up to get their tanks filled on a viaduct in Chongqing municipality, China

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2009 2:36 PM | Add Comment

Exene Cervenka's In-Store Free Show @ Amoeba Music Hollywood

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 6:34 PM | Add Comment

Quote from the Dalai Lama

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 6:32 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: a Sadhu (Hindu holy man) rests on the stairs leading to the banks of the River Ganges

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 4:57 PM | Add Comment

Astronomers name Scotland's Galloway Forest Park as one of world's best stargazing sites

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 4:21 PM | Add Comment

Quotes from Victor Hugo

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 4:09 PM | Add Comment

Photo: "Going Rouge: The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book"

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 4:03 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 3:58 PM | Add Comment

USDA: Number of Americans going hungry increases to 49 million

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 3:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 3:35 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Biggest wave in 40 years swamps Cornish fishing village during the worst storm of the year

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 4:55 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Slaughter of the horses: More animals will be shot as recession bites. Please help Horse Sanctuaries if you can....

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 4:10 PM | Add Comment

Italian inventor creates electronic holy water dispenser to lessen risk of H1N1/swine flu viral infection of church attendees

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 4:03 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Thousands of Chinese women are vying to attend a lavish "Cinderella" ball, hoping to find a millionaire (the women must first go through "stringent screening of their looks, physique and intellect")

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:51 PM | Add Comment

Official apology from Britain for 150,000 poor British children who were shipped off to the colonies over three and a half centuries, taken from their families to be used as workers (and often severely abused)

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:44 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Mystery of Bangladesh's mass arsenic poisoning of two million people is solved: man-made ponds excavated to provide soil for flood protection

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:38 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a detailed view of star birth in the spiral galaxy M83, captured by Hubble

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:39 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Poem: "An Autumn Sunset" by Edith Wharton

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:19 AM | Add Comment

Obama tells Myanmar junta to free Suu Kyi

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:15 AM | Add Comment

Surf's up! Hawaiian sea turtles take to the waves

Posted by kluciole at 11/14/2009 4:26 PM | Add Comment
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