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Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for December 2010

Happy New Year from Luciole Press! (Photo of the Champs Elysees)

New Year's poem from Luciole friend/contributing poet Scott Wannberg, "big year end sale on better mousetraps"

Tea off: India's farmers say climate changing brew

Photo: a halo forms around Mount Rainier

Wow! "One-third of 9-month-olds already obese or overweight"

Jamestown unearths 400-year-old pipes

Photo: the Northern lights at Hvalfjorour fjord in Akranes near Reykjavik

Thomas Hardy's beloved home to throw its doors open to the madding crowd

Dust Shatters Like Breaking Glass, Study Finds

Researchers: Ancient human remains found in Israel

Tiptoeing in the snow, a f-f-frozen pheasant (and other incredible winter photos)

Artist Jorge Rodriguez Gerada's incredible portraits are bigger than a football field

Luciole Press wishes all of you a beautiful, lovely and loving time of year

Elusive Saharan Cheetah Captured in Photos

Quantum mechanics, invisibility cloaks and water on Mars: The biggest scientific breakthroughs of the past decade

Photo: the night sky view from Kitt Peak National Observatory

New poem from Luciole friend/contributing poet Scott Wannberg: "go home, moon..."

Massive haul of 20,000 ancient fossils in China shows new life after biggest mass extinction of all time

Virtual Santa brings the holidays to sick children

Storm lashes California and leaves polluted water

Study questions seniority-based teacher layoffs

Quote from Anna Akhmatova

Rash Due to Lung Cancer Drug May Be Linked to Better Survival

Rhodesian Ridgeback dog in Germany gives birth to 17 puppies

Photo: a woman rides through snow covered forest in Smilovichi

New poem from Luciole friend/contributing poet Scott Wannberg: "viable gust of wind"

I have to get one of these! :) Connecticut company's stuffed germ toys catching on

Israeli companies outsourcing to Palestinians

Photo: Coco Ho surfing in Oahu

Amazing Spectacle: Total Lunar Eclipse Monday Night

Photo: Japanese Macaques soak in a hot spring on the northern island of Hokkaido

Really cool photo of trees in Phuket, by Luciole artist Johanna Bergh

OMG, they've killed Frostie: Bus driver forced to resign after mowing down snowman left in middle of the road

Animal rehab centers still working after BP spill

Mummy Head (and Brain) Identified as Long-Lost French King Henry IV

Storm in Israel uncovers ancient statue

Remember, it is not the "Arabian Gulf," but the "Persian Gulf"

Super photo from Luciole friend/contributing author Aine MacAodha of the frozen river Strule in Ireland

Book launch for Luciole friend/contributing author Gerry McCullough's "Belfast Girls"

Internet rallies behind teased Star Wars girl

Why are hundreds of Dartmoor ponies being slaughtered and fed to tigers at the zoo?

Parasites may protect against allergies

Photo: a wave crashes into the waterfront at Sidon port-city in south Lebanon

Gorgeous photo of Phuket, Thailand from Luciole friend/contributor, artist Johanna Bergh

Lost Civilization May Have Existed Beneath the Persian Gulf

Workmen discover body of 'huge' gladiator who was 'stabbed six times and thrown out with the rubbish'

Custer's 'Last Flag' sold for $2.2 million

Nearly all U.S. dollar bills in circulation 'have traces of toxic chemical on them'

Photo: people cross the snow-covered Bourse square in Paris

New poem by Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "Dobro Dawn"

2,000-year-old Holy Thorn Tree of Glastonbury is cut down

Reunited after five years, a family and the cat they lost in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Congress votes to avert Medicare doctor pay cut

Amazing pictures of sea life sanctuary in the Pacific

Saudi women sue male guardians who stop marriage

Blood Cancer Advances May Improve Survival

Photo: sheep grazing on a snow covered pasture in northern Slovakia

Is the College Debt Bubble Ready to Explode?

Not sure how they made this photo, but it's very cool (snow-covered tree in Budapest)

New poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "subsequent investigation hootenanny"

How 'bioluminescent' trees that glow like fireflies could one day replace our streetlights

Photo: a person performs morning exercise at public park along bank of Yalu River

Book Talk: Saving China's tigers in Africa

California approves use of pesticide linked to cancer

Photo: man walks past Olympic Cauldron as snow falls in Vancouver