Jellyfish in Art
The gallery in this post features strong pieces of art, masterfully done, that make the case that jellyfish proliferation affects all of us and has filtered to art, as important issues always do.
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02, 2016
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01, 2016
Jellyfish Invasion!
Half a billion years ago, before what is known as the Cambrian explosion when myriads of new species sprouted in the oceans, jellyfish roamed the seas. Jellyfish adapted to sharing their environment with other animals and continued to thrive for hundreds of million years, and they are with us now. But things are changing for [...]
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01, 2016
Why Jellyfish?
Editor’s note: Fusing memoir and fiction, Joram’s own research fuels the adventures of his protagonist Ricardo Stein in Jellyfish Have Eyes. As an NIH scientist acclaimed for vision research, he had 20 years of dissecting the eyes of vertebrates under his belt when he learned that, indeed, jellyfish have eyes. Which leads me to this [...]
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01, 2016
A Letter to Lillian
Many years after Dr. Ricardo Sztein had passed away, the following letter was found tucked away through a rip in the underbelly of the mattress of his room. We don’t know when he wrote the letter since it wasn’t dated. Poor Ricardo, a good man, tormented, who craved to be understood. Dear Lillian, How [...]
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12, 2015
Ricardo’s Trouble with the Human Connection
This month I’m posting excerpts from earlier drafts of Jellyfish Have Eyes that feature the relationships between Ricardo Stzein and other key characters in the novel. Ricardo’s troubles began when he was browsing through a book he purchased on vision in invertebrates. He had studied the eyes of chicken and mice for twenty years, but [...]
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11, 2015
Ricardo the Scientist
This month I’m posting excerpts from earlier drafts of Jellyfish Have Eyes that feature the relationships between Ricardo Stzein and other key characters in the novel. The last two sentences of this excerpt are the most impactful. In a completely fictional, partly cynical way they capture a major theme of the book supporting basic research. It [...]