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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for May 2010

Cat fight! Tiger brothers try to show each other who's boss at the Nikolaev Zoo in the Ukraine

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:55 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "A Dream Within A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:53 PM | Add Comment

West Poised for Worst Grasshopper Outbreak in 30 Years

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:48 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Peruvian child, seven-year-old Daisy Cuevas, becomes symbol of US undocumented

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:43 PM | Add Comment

Links to the Guardian's news coverage of Israel and the Gaza flotilla; the 600 passengers of the flotilla included a Nobel Peace Laureate

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:34 PM | Add Comment

Q&A: Aid and Israel's Gaza blockade

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:27 PM | Add Comment

Bloody Israeli raid on flotilla sparks crisis

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:16 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a performer spins sparks in a traditional fire show in Minsk, Russia

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2010 8:26 PM | Add Comment

Tomb of Ancient Egyptian mayor found near Cairo a century after it was lost

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2010 8:19 PM | Add Comment

Al-Jazeera anchorwomen 'quit in clothing spat'

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2010 8:17 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Charges considered in deaths of 83 wild horses

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2010 8:14 PM | Add Comment

After fix fail, a dispiriting summer of oil, anger. Hurricane season starts Tuesday

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2010 8:11 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a cyclist makes her way through a golden meadow in Lofer, Austria

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2010 10:39 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "When Death Comes" by Mary Oliver (previously posted)

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2010 10:29 PM | Add Comment

Catch "Special Relationship" on HBO if you can; just watched it and enjoyed it. Much food for thought.

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2010 10:20 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a pelican searches for fish as the sun sets in St John's in the Caribbean

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2010 10:19 PM | Add Comment

Effort aims to rescue horses: Farm diverts animals from slaughterhouses

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2010 6:15 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a cyclone survivor takes part in a demonstration in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2010 6:14 PM | Add Comment

"Today's College Students Lack Empathy." Students score 40% lower than counterparts 20 or 30 years ago, "establishing that exposure to violent media numbs people to the pain of others"

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2010 6:06 PM | Add Comment

Hawaii first in nation to ban possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins (plus article "A sad shark's tale: Shocking images show scale of fin trade")

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2010 5:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Heartbreaking photo: a young heron lays dying amidst oil underneath mangrove on an island in Barataria Bay, the coast of Lousiana

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2010 8:35 PM | Add Comment

Shark attacks most likely on Sunday in 6 feet of water during a new moon, says research

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2010 8:33 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Democrat James Carville Slams Obama's Response to BP Oil Spill and 'Political Stupidity'

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2010 8:29 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a model swallowtail butterfly that can fly just like the real thing, created by scientists from Harvard and Tokyo University

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2010 8:28 PM | Add Comment

Idaho Tea Party win embarrasses GOP establishment

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2010 8:08 PM | Add Comment

In Photos: Haunting images of the gulf oil disaster

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2010 11:50 PM | Add Comment

Photo: flood waters surround a Polish-German border point near the Oder River, Ratzdorf

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2010 11:48 PM | Add Comment

Hubble catches planet being devoured by its star

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2010 11:45 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The Batavian Rebellion and Quintus Petillius Cerialis (between 69-70 CE. Cerialis was made Governor of Britannia from 71 to 74 CE)

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2010 11:27 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a giraffe eats a bunch of leaves at Kuala Lumpur zoo

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2010 11:25 PM | Add Comment

Britain bans Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who linked autism to vaccine

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2010 11:19 PM | Add Comment

Park de Triomphe - the day French farmers turned the Champs-Elysees into a garden

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 5:25 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

57 ancient tombs with mummies unearthed in Lahoun, Egypt

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 5:13 PM | Add Comment

As spill grows, oil soaks delicate marshes, birds

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 5:05 PM | Add Comment

Photo: (Nazret, Ethiopia) Women wait to cast their vote at a polling station

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 5:03 PM | Add Comment

Vietnam, US still in conflict over Agent Orange

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 4:58 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the Atlantis shuttle, docked at the International Space Station, with our gorgeous Earth situated below

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2010 1:53 PM | Add Comment

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

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2010 1:46 PM | Add Comment

Blackfeet Elouise Cobell sees end to 14-year government fight: "Cobell's class-action lawsuit represents as many as 500,000 Indians who own property that the government holds in trust for them"

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2010 1:36 PM | Add Comment

Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2010 1:23 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a baby baboon climbs in the branches of a tree in the outdoor enclosure of the Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg

Posted by kluciole at 5/21/2010 5:28 PM | Add Comment

I highly recommend Luciole friend/contributor artist Pär Strömberg's new book "Darkness Visible"

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 6:28 PM | Add Comment

Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg has alerted me to his upcoming radio appearance! "Voices Of The Lady With Guest Scott Wannberg" Saturday, May 21st

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 6:22 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a penguin chick shelters between parents in sub-zero temperatures on Snow Hill Island

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 5:27 PM | Add Comment

Poem by Emily Brontë: "A Day Dream"

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 5:21 PM | Add Comment

"Charlotte and Emily" tells superb tale of Brontës

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 5:14 PM | Add Comment

Photo: young baboons cuddle to keep warm in northern Germany

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 5:09 PM | Add Comment

NASA images reveal Gulf of Mexico oil spill entering powerful current that could carry it to Florida and beyond

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 5:03 PM | Add Comment

How Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's civil-rights views escaped media scrutiny

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 4:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Why We Exist: Matter Wins Battle Over Antimatter

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 10:05 PM | Add Comment

Fantastic photo: a Sumatran Tiger cub attacks a tree next to his mother, at the Melbourne Zoo

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 4:19 PM | Add Comment

Cyprus: crews stumble on 2-millennia-old coffins in Protaras

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 4:12 PM | Add Comment

Heavy oil hits Louisiana shore

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 4:06 PM | Add Comment

Muslim anger prompts Pakistan to block Facebook amid anger over page encouraging users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Blast from the past: a new type of exploding star

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 3:50 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the Space Shuttle Atlantis backdropped against Earth prior to docking with the International Space Station

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2010 1:51 PM | Add Comment

Author Isabel Allende sets new book in Haiti

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2010 1:47 PM | Add Comment

Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years, UN warns, "unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover"

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2010 1:41 PM | Add Comment

The Lost Reading List: 13 Books That Helped Mold the Series

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2010 1:36 PM | Add Comment

Oil spill to shut down 19 percent of Gulf fishing. Photos of a pelican being cleansed of oil, and a ship passing through oil patch

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2010 1:31 PM | Add Comment

Eating bacon, sausage, hot dogs and other processed meats can raise the risk of heart disease and diabetes by 42%

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2010 1:22 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a car drives through ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Eyjafjoll

Posted by kluciole at 5/17/2010 6:42 AM | Add Comment

Drilling critics warn of oil spill in Arctic Ocean: "They're not ready for the Arctic"

Posted by kluciole at 5/17/2010 6:35 AM | Add Comment

Abortion foes capitalize on health law they fought, using it to limit coverage by private insurers

Posted by kluciole at 5/17/2010 6:28 AM | Add Comment

Dramatic surge seen in kids hospitalized with MRSA: "Most infections were caught in the community, not in the hospital"

Posted by kluciole at 5/17/2010 6:22 AM | Add Comment

Photo: an Indonesian miner collects sulphur surrounded by thick toxic smoke at the Kawah Ijen crater

Posted by kluciole at 5/17/2010 6:17 AM | Add Comment

Africa's Lake Tanganyika warming fast, and wildlife is dying

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2010 1:11 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a turtle and a mermaid display team from Florida in a tank at the Sea Life London Aquarium

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2010 2:05 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Courage" by Anne Sexton

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2010 1:58 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The future of Mount St. Helens 30 years later

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2010 1:52 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Thousands of nonprofits may lose tax-exempt status because they haven't filed a new form with the IRS

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2010 1:39 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

An oil platform towers in the background as a pelican flies past a surfer off the coast of Carpenteria, California

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:52 PM | Add Comment

Jean Paul Gaultier unveils first collection in Russia

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:49 PM | Add Comment

Photo: painting by Bartolome Esteban Murillo, entitled Saint Rufina, c. 1665 (among the millions of artworks Nazis Germany stole from Jewish families)

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:46 PM | Add Comment

High-risk patients may be stuck paying high rates

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:41 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Somali boy carries fish to the market in Mogadishu

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:39 PM | Add Comment

Italians say they may have found artist Caravaggio's bones

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:35 PM | Add Comment

Photo: French artist Christain Boltanski's "No Man's Land," composed of 30 tons of discarded clothing

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:22 PM | Add Comment

Photo: NASA image taken from telescope atop Mauna Kea, showing most distant, primitive cluster of galaxies ever found

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2010 7:07 AM | Add Comment

New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg, "make everything up as it goes"

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2010 7:01 AM | Add Comment

14th-century aqueduct found near Jerusalem's Old City

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2010 6:55 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Ecuadorean natives block the highways in Otavalo town to protest against a new water resources law

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2010 6:52 AM | Add Comment

Brothel owners transported women around British suburbs in a cage

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2010 6:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Australian freestyle motocross rider Robbie Maddison leaps in the air in the Sahara desert near Cairo at sunset

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2010 4:51 PM | Add Comment

Scientists stunned as grey whale sighted off Israel, thought to be the first time the giant mammal has been seen outside the Pacific in several hundred years

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2010 4:44 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a muddy cat takes cover near a tree amidst tornado damage in Oklahoma

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2010 4:40 PM | Add Comment

Rare 'King of Herrings' found off Swedish coast

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2010 4:37 PM | Add Comment

Some Chianti Classico Riserva Rocca delle Macie and a nice lunch for my mom and I

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2010 4:17 PM | Add Comment

Glacier park turns 100, but age has not been kind

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 10:39 PM | Add Comment

Last Broadway Ziegfeld Follies Girl, Doris Eaton Travis, dies at 106

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 10:35 PM | Add Comment

Photo: cloud formations over the North Pacific Ocean taken by NASA's Global Hawk Earth science aircraft at 58,000 feet

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 12:47 PM | Add Comment

New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "the motion picture event of this or any other year is coming soon to a fragile wall space near you"

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 12:43 PM | Add Comment

An essay from Luciole friend/contributor Christine McClintock: "Child Abuse - The Fight to Protect"

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 12:34 PM | Add Comment

Photo: residents of the small Bavarian village of Oberammergau at the dress rehearsal for their passion play

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 12:33 PM | Add Comment

Indian Mystic Prahlad Jani Claims Not to Eat for 70 Years

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 12:29 PM | Add Comment

Thieves take controversial Mojave Desert cross

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 12:25 PM | Add Comment

Hubble Photo: celestial object - NGC 6302 - looks like a delicate butterfly but is far from serene

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2010 7:10 PM | Add Comment

Afghan violence victims want voice in peace talks

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2010 7:06 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the 'Hand' Nebula, 17,000 light-years away from Earth. Photo taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2010 7:08 PM | Add Comment

I am taking a business class, and the professor had us take the Jung typology test this week. I found it interesting; my result is INFJ

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2010 6:41 PM | Add Comment
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