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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for March 2010

Photo: a 30,000-year-old handprint from Chauvet Cave in France

UK 'Climategate' inquiry largely clears scientists

I love the title of this article: "Ancient Blind Snakes Hitched Ride on Drifting Continents"

Photo: an aerial view of the BHP Billiton Mt. Whaleback iron ore mine in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia

Scientists: "Toads are a telltale sign for impending quakes"

Large Hadron Collider atom smasher will help reveal "the beginning"

Photo: a group of bald and golden eagles feed on a fish on the frozen surface of the Mississippi River, Minnesota

Russian protesters say factory to pollute world's oldest lake -- Lake Baikal is the world's deepest lake and contains 20 percent of the globe's total unfrozen freshwater reserves

Photo: US Marines feed a stray puppy in northern Marjah, Helmand province in Afghanistan

Vitamin D helps fend off flu, asthma attacks

Fashion photographer Peter Gowland dies at 93

Photo: the open star cluster NGC 7380. It lies in the constellation Cepheus

Would partners of gay troops get benefits, too?

America's daring ironworkers walk the girders just like their forefathers as they rebuild at Ground Zero

Photo: Bleached coral in the Lord Howe Island Lagoon, Australia

Last Chance to Get a Good Look at Mars Until 2012

Up to a third of breast cancers could be avoided

'I'm NOT the Messiah': British economist Raj Patel forced to deny he is religious cult's divine savior

The Alida Ivanov Gallery of Stockholm (featured in this issue of Luciole Press) presents a screening of "Our Global Behaviour is Psychopathic," a film by Virlani Hallberg and Jennifer Rainsford

Protection for 2 shark species fails at UN meeting --- hammerhead and oceanic whitetip sharks are sought for their fins

Indian military to weaponize world's hottest chili

Rep. Randy Neugebauer "apologizes for 'baby killer' remark during health care debate, but turns moment into a campaign fundraiser"

Three tigers shot dead by police after escaping from Canary Islands zoo

Hundreds evacuated after volcano in Iceland erupts

Congress approves historic health care legislation

Photo: a girl dressed up as a Japanese Manga character at the Leipzig Book Fair in Germany

Why Spring Starts Today

Late Mass. monk Ly Van Aggadipo's poems recall Khmer Rouge horrors; one Cambodian refugee says "I think my own children don't believe what we went through to get here"

Stop this insanity -- Tea party protesters shout racial and gay slurs at Rep. John Lewis and Rep. Barney Frank

Photo: Terra Nova Bay in the Antarctic, South Korea's choice for the their second research base on the continent

Slightly older article -- Fashion's latest fixation: 3D

Lucky to be alive: The bunny torched in his hutch by drunk woman during family argument

NASA finds cute shrimp beneath ice in Antarctica

Book makes new claims about Anne Frank; Bergen Belsen survivor Berthe Meijer says Frank distracted younger children from horrors of Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairy tales

Photo: Dolphins swim past a boat, on same day University of Newcastle researchers claimed tourists do them harm

Photo: a white stork stands in its nest in Bad Freienwalde, eastern Germany

Picasso's "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto," once center of dispute, for sale

Women and girls (as young as 2 years old) are often rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath

Smithsonian opens $21M human evolution hall

Photo: a large star forming nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia within the Milky Way Galaxy

Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims

Photo: the STEREO spacecraft captured this strong coronal mass ejection from the Sun

Life-Enabling Molecules Spotted in Orion Nebula

Photo: a giant sculpture of a stockinged leg at The Magnificent Innovations for Women exhibition in Budapest

Ultraviolet rays shine new light on masterpieces by 14th century artist Giotto di Bondone, considered one of the founders of the Italian Renaissance

Catastrophic event in early Universe could explain why galaxies like our Milky Way stop growing

In paying for sex changes, Cuba breaks from past

Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal

Photo: a creation by designer Cesar Arellanes at exhibition to mark bicentenary of Mexican independence

Poem: "You Thought I Was That Type" by Anna Akhmatova

Dozen centuries-old shipwrecks found in Baltic Sea

Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care: "And I think now, isn't that ironic?"

Photo: hundreds of people watch the lighting of the falla 'Literato Azorin' in Valencia

Big Bang experiment may reveal dark universe: CERN

Japanese dolphin hunters bitter as 'The Cove' wins Oscar

Listening to: October Project's "Take Me As I Am" (video)

Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

Frosty the cat survives FOUR WEEKS in a chilled food warehouse... by eating frozen peas

Photo: artist's impression of an icy exoplanet. "An era of planet discovery is dawning that will see thousands of new worlds identified in the next few years"

Researchers: "AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness"

Gendercide in Asia: Massive rise in abortion of female fetuses

Photo: slap-sole shoes, probably Italian, mid-17th century, are seen on display in the "On a Pedestal: From Renaissance Chopines to Baroque Heels" exhibition in Toronto

Photo: a Sauropod dinosaur egg fossil retrieved from Dholi Dungri in India

Einstein's relativity manuscript goes on display

Amazing new images beamed back from Mars, "crystal clear views of alien rock formations"

Painting: "Witch Hill," or "The Salem Martyr" -- Oil painting by New York artist Thomas Slatterwhite Noble, 1869

Ice Once Covered the Equator

Photo: a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) volunteer adjusts her lettuce dress in Mumbai

Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution

Photo: a local resident desperately tries to fill a container with water at a dried-up reservoir in Zhulin Town, China

Mysterious image of snake appears on 400-year-old painting of Queen Elizabeth I

Photo: a dog at a shelter in Romania, with men clearing snow that was threatening the dogs' lives

Senate rejects $250 checks for elderly, which "would have made up for social security benefits not increasing this year"