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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for October 2010

Photo: fantastic NASA image shows fast-growing sunspot, crackling with solar flares

Today was my mother's memorial

Another wonderful one from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "the night the hideous horror found me beautiful"

An Iranian film wanders in an allegorical desert

Parents told to leave disabled kids at homeless shelters

War veterans hold different views of midterms

Iwo Jima mementos bring closure to Japanese family

Russia's Kamchatka volcanoes calm after eruptions

Treasure at the bottom of the 'Icebow' -- A rare optical phenomenon is captured on camera

Incredible new poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "what the brothers love"

In defiance of tradition, Taiwan woman marries self

Immigrant vets face deportation despite service

Oxford University's Bodleian Library receives 1,000 new books a day

Deadlock in UN biodiversity talks in Nagoya

Why the Moon really IS silvery: Lunar surface contains traces of precious metal and is 6% water

Photo: two killer whales near San Juan Island, Washington

End of the Earth Postponed

Toughest job in the world: Marisol Valles Garcia, 20, becomes police chief in one of Mexico's most violent border towns... because no one else will do it

Astronomers find oldest, most remote galaxy ever seen... 13 billion light years away

Bohemian landmark NYC Hotel Chelsea up for sale

Beautiful photo of mist-enshrouded trees in Oregon, from Luciole friend/contributor Dena Rash Guzman

New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "ill wind seeks current upgrade 2 step"

Astronomers discover new way of spotting planets that were hidden in their star's glare

Homer Simpson is Catholic, Vatican paper declares

Photo: France's wheelchair fencing team train

Photo: a giant drilling machine completes the world's longest tunnel beneath the Swiss Alps

Mark Twain back on best-seller lists with memoir

Special Report: The problem with phthalates

Israel unlikely champ in global real estate

Irish sharks (starry smooth-hounds)! Little-known Shark Species Gets a Closer Look

New Bronze Age civilisation discovered in Russian Caucasus

TIME article: California Teachers Paying for Their Own Supplies and More (even to clean classrooms now)

Opera great Joan Sutherland, "La Stupenda," dies aged 83

Roman bronze helmet found in a field sells for £2.3 million; one of only three ever found in Britain, it is 2,000 years old and immaculately preserved

Lost Vivaldi concerto found in Scotland

Isn't this gorgeous? This Giovanni Boldini painting (of his muse Martha de Florian) was found in a cobwebbed Paris apartment

Spooky Quantum Entanglement Disturbed

10 Most Scenic Roads In The U.S. (Photos on Huffington Post)

America moves on from spill; Gulf coast feels abandoned: "It's amazing how quickly the American public forgot that this was one of the worst manmade disasters in U.S. history"

Photo: the sun slants over a beach at Big Sur

Thanks for all the Happy Birthday wishes for Luciole Press, and for me too

A brief bit of poetry from one of my favorites, Rosalía de Castro: “Has de Cantar” (“You Must Sing”)

Incredible new poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "sometimes the earth will say it loves you"

I've been in the hospital the last 6 days; will update you all soon. Meanwhile, thanks for the messages and comments