Luciole Press Blog
http://blog.luciolepress.com
Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for December 2009

Celebrate the new year early with the newly published Winter 2010 Issue of Luciole Press! Here is the Table of Contents

Posted by kluciole at 12/31/2009 3:04 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: the lighthouse on the north pier in South Haven, Michigan, reflected in water

Posted by kluciole at 12/30/2009 8:34 PM | Add Comment

Rare New Year's Eve 'blue moon' to ring in 2010

Posted by kluciole at 12/30/2009 8:28 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Beautiful photo of a boat near Waikiki

Posted by kluciole at 12/30/2009 8:21 PM | Add Comment

Famous San Francisco sea lions leave in droves

Posted by kluciole at 12/30/2009 8:17 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid

Posted by kluciole at 12/30/2009 8:13 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: a truly vast New Year Tree in downtown Minsk, Belarus

Posted by kluciole at 12/30/2009 8:11 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the newly discovered flower (Dendrobium jiwhoei) found on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2009 10:53 AM | Add Comment

Poems from Luciole Press Autumn Issue 2009 -- Kumari de Silva

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2009 10:50 AM | Add Comment

Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture. The U.S. "used about 35 million pounds of antibiotics last year; 70 percent went to pigs, chickens and cows"

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2009 10:43 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Luciole Press friend/contributor Esmaa Self's column "Organics: It's a Balance Thing" (Autumn Issue 2009)

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2009 10:38 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photos from Luciole Press contributor/friend Christine McClintock, which appear in the Autumn Issue 2009

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2009 10:35 AM | Add Comment

Incredible photos from Iran as reform protesters clash with police, who are accused of firing on the demonstrators

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2009 10:18 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: three tigers at the Everland amusement park in Yongin, South Korea

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2009 9:44 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Poem: "The More Loving One" by W. H. Auden

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2009 9:40 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

China finds tomb of 3rd century general Cao Cao. He ruled the Kingdom of Wei from 208 to 220 AD

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2009 9:33 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: people run out from the mobile Russian baths (banya) into the snow in the village of Bobrovka

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2009 9:25 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Skin whitening cream finds new popularity among Palestinian women

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2009 9:14 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Disinfectants Cause Some Bacteria to Adapt, Thrive

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2009 9:11 PM | Add Comment

Artist's impression of a giant gas planet with an Earth-like moon, similar to Pandora in the new movie "Avatar"

Posted by kluciole at 12/27/2009 10:27 PM | Add Comment

Indian tribes buy back thousands of acres of land

Posted by kluciole at 12/27/2009 10:22 PM | Add Comment

Pomegranate lotion offers new hope in war on superbugs like MRSA

Posted by kluciole at 12/27/2009 10:17 PM | Add Comment

First case of highly drug-resistant TB found in US

Posted by kluciole at 12/27/2009 10:01 PM | Add Comment

Another beautiful photo of a robin on a snowy branch

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 7:12 PM | Add Comment

Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who denounced Juarez border killings and founded Casa Amiga, has died

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 7:05 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: Why Indie Directors Are Releasing Movies Online -- For Free

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 6:59 PM | Add Comment

Photo: baby elephant Jamuna Toni cuddles with a zookeeper at Munich's Hellabrunn Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 6:54 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a king penguin chick walks on the frozen ice and snow in its enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 12/25/2009 10:19 AM | Add Comment

Star Remnants Retain 'Memory' of Supernova Explosions

Posted by kluciole at 12/25/2009 10:01 AM | Add Comment

Cat finds way home after 11 days, 2 broken legs

Posted by kluciole at 12/25/2009 9:51 AM | Add Comment

5 years later: Some struggles, a lot of hope, for tsunami orphans

Posted by kluciole at 12/25/2009 9:43 AM | Add Comment

Photo: fossil of a feathered raptor dinosaur with grooved fangs that delivered venom

Posted by kluciole at 12/25/2009 9:40 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Cool art! Danish artist Peter Callesen creates dainty models using glue, a scalpel and just one sheet of paper

Posted by kluciole at 12/24/2009 8:21 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Antarctic expeditioners to have a truly white Christmas

Posted by kluciole at 12/24/2009 8:13 PM | Add Comment

Research Reveals How Breast Cancer Rearranges Genome

Posted by kluciole at 12/24/2009 8:09 PM | Add Comment

2 rare Siberian tigers and several Bengal tigers perish during 20-hour truck journey in a Russian traveling circus

Posted by kluciole at 12/24/2009 8:02 PM | Add Comment

"Perfect winter image" of a robin perched on a snowy twig

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 6:39 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Swedish Christmas straw goat burns again (I posted about this last year as well)

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 6:23 PM | Add Comment

Luciole contributor/friend Jeaneth Patricia Skaugvold's photos of Northern Norway for the Autumn 2009 Issue

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 6:15 PM | Add Comment

Tug of the sun and moon trigger San Andreas tremors

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 5:58 PM | Add Comment

Seniors exposed to significant levels of air pollution face double the risk of pneumonia

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 5:51 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a house sparrow sits on a branch of a hedge in Tagelswangen, Switzerland

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 12:26 AM | Add Comment

Head over heels! Giant Panda Tai Shan does a roly-poly in his sleep

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 12:17 AM | Add Comment

Pakistani brothers to have ears and nose chopped off for doing the same to woman who rejected one

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Photo: birds sit on a tree as the sun sets over Lahore

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 12:10 AM | Add Comment

Slaying of drug war hero's family shocks Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 12:07 AM | Add Comment

225,000 Haiti children work as slaves, sold for as little as $128 to work as laborers or prostitutes

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2009 11:47 PM | Add Comment

Snowflakes, the coolest shapes on the planet, are even more beautiful close up

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2009 3:45 AM | Add Comment

The Real Science of 'Avatar'

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2009 3:36 AM | Add Comment

42 percent of women with high breast cancer risk refuse MRIs

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2009 3:28 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a U.S. Marine from Camp Lejeune lights up a cigarette during an operation at dusk in Helmand Province

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2009 3:25 AM | Add Comment

Herschel telescope images show birth of stars 1,000 light years from Earth

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2009 2:26 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the sun begins to rise under clouds and over the Alps next to Lake Geneva, as seen from Tartegnin, Switzerland

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2009 2:23 PM | Add Comment

India's last "dancing" endangered bear set free

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2009 2:19 PM | Add Comment

Photo: an image of an elephant appears during Odaiba water illumination show in Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2009 2:13 PM | Add Comment

New book says carbon footprints of pets worse than "gas-guzzling sports utility vehicles"... pet owners vehemently disagree

Posted by kluciole at 12/21/2009 2:06 PM | Add Comment

Photo -- London: Snow falls over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2009 5:05 AM | Add Comment

Against nudity ban, gallery in Ashland, Oregon takes it all off

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2009 4:55 AM | Add Comment

Can eco-friendly fashion be just as stylish?

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2009 4:50 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Malaysian authorities rescue 130 pangolins

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2009 4:47 AM | Add Comment

Wonders of the deep: Stunning pictures of strange and unique Antarctic sea life

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:49 PM | Add Comment

Fury in Sweden after company offers to grind up bodies of 291drowned reindeer to make biofuel, which is against Sami traditions

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:37 PM | Add Comment

Fear of violence grows in mountaintop strip mining fight

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:28 PM | Add Comment

Newsweek article: How to Live Happily on 75 Percent Less ... (and photos of the homeless who need our help -- this winter is already very harsh)

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:12 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a harpoon ship, part of the Japanese whaling fleet, sails beyond an iceberg in the Antarctic Southern Ocean

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 4:13 AM | Add Comment

Photos: Afghan children, refugees in Pakistan, play in their neighborhood of Rawalpindi

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 4:06 AM | Add Comment

N. America's biggest fish, the Kootenai River white sturgeon, slips toward extinction

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 4:00 AM | Add Comment

Pakistani ruling party grapples with amnesty's end

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:56 AM | Add Comment

NASA photo: the first flash of sunlight reflects off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:53 AM | Add Comment

Dark matter discovered: Scientists believe they have found elusive particle that makes up 90% of Universe

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2009 8:50 AM | Add Comment

Acid oceans: the 'evil twin' of climate change (photos: Monterey Bay, CA)

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2009 8:42 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Pacifica, Calif. apartments evacuated as cliff crumbles

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2009 8:35 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: a Japanese Macaque sits in the snow after climbing out of a hot spring in Yamanouchi

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:41 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Poem: "The Healers" by Laurence Binyon

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:33 PM | Add Comment

Robot records deepest erupting undersea volcano

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:16 PM | Add Comment

Photo: climbers trek on Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:10 PM | Add Comment

Monument lifted from Cleopatra's underwater city; pylon once stood at the entrance to temple of Isis

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:08 PM | Add Comment

First edition of Lewis Carroll's classic book "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" sells at auction for $115,000

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:04 PM | Add Comment

Photo: ice formations are seen on the banks of a mountain stream near Fuessen, in Bavaria

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2009 8:26 PM | Add Comment

China stretches the imagination with world's longest sea bridge to link mainland with Macau and Hong Kong

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2009 8:15 PM | Add Comment

Etched by trucks in the desert sand: At 9 miles around, gargantuan circle is the world's largest artwork

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2009 8:07 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Scientists discover Earth-like, water-rich planet

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2009 8:04 PM | Add Comment

Photo: smoke from power plants rises over Novodevichi Convent in Moscow

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2009 8:02 PM | Add Comment

For Babies' Sake, Pregnancy Spacing Matters

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2009 7:58 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a 6-day-old sheep relaxes with its mother Mana at the Saitama Children's Zoo in Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 12/16/2009 7:55 PM | Add Comment

Surreal photo: the White House enveloped in fog

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:54 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Harassment across Arab world drives women inside

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:48 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Scientists discover Indonesian octopus species who collect and fashion coconuts as shelter; calling it "first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal"

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:31 AM | Add Comment

NHS maternity services in meltdown: former midwife reveals how understaffed wards are sinking into chaos as "births are turning into conveyer-belt productions"

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:25 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Diplomatic furore from Israel as British court issues arrest warrant for former foreign minister Tzipi Livni over Gaza War

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:14 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: time exposure photograph of the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 6:06 PM | Add Comment

Not in the pink: Flimgo the gray, baby flamingo stands out among its rose-colored family

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 6:01 PM | Add Comment

Poor being turned away from free cancer screenings

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:58 PM | Add Comment

Uganda parliament outlaws female genital mutilation

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:54 PM | Add Comment

La. Indian village on Isle de Jean Charles holds out against plea to move

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:49 PM | Add Comment

Stephen King and his wife donate money so 150 soldiers can come home for the holidays

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:43 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a view of Blyde River Canyon, the third largest canyon in the world

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 6:49 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Brought to my attention by Lena, new book! "Quills of Fire" by Marilyn Campiz and Lena Vanelslander

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 6:40 PM | Add Comment

Former Met museum director Thomas Hoving dies; with his bold risk-taking, Hoving "transformed the museum world"

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 6:37 PM | Add Comment

968 detained at climate rally urging bold pact

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 6:30 PM | Add Comment
Older Entries
Copyright 2007. All rights reserved.