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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

Broadway shows returning to New Orleans

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

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

Stellar Fossils from Milky Way's Past Revealed

Poem: "On Living" by Nazim Hikmet

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

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

Study shows tiny magnetic discs could kill cancer cells

Swiss ban mosque minarets in surprise vote

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

Hammerhead Sharks See 360 Degrees in Stereo

Prison theatre drama an escape for Romanian inmates

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

Recession sends older Americans to food pantries

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

Couture comes to the tea cup through luxury blends

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

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

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

Body of trapped Utah spelunker won't be recovered

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

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

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

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

New climate targets may not change daily life much

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

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

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

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

Photo: a red eyed tree frog from Costa Rica

Surprise! Your Skin Can Hear

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

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

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

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

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

Hero mother squirrel saves her baby from a dog

Rio does away with coconuts on beaches

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

POLITICO: Lou Dobbs considering White House bid

Quote and poem from Hafiz ("The Tulip")

Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

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

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

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

Why Kids Ask Why

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

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

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

Poem: "In A Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke

Thousands of strange creatures found deep in ocean

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)

Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery

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

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

Taiwanese fashion designer Colin Lin uses recycled paper in shoemaking

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

Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence

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

Quote from Thich Nhat Hanh

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

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

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

Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland

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)

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

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

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

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

Icebergs moving towards New Zealand

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

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

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

Afghans say poverty, not Taliban, main cause of war

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

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

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”

Denmark seeks specific pledges at climate talks

Palin angered by 'sexist' Newsweek cover

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

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

Quote from the Dalai Lama

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

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

Quotes from Victor Hugo

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

Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world

USDA: Number of Americans going hungry increases to 49 million

Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning

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

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

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

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")

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)

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

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

Poem: "An Autumn Sunset" by Edith Wharton

Obama tells Myanmar junta to free Suu Kyi

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