Being a slow reader, I’ve dreamed for years how helpful it would be if I could download the contents of a book into my brain – wirelessly, of course. Imagine the time saved! I could get through War and Peace in less than an hour. “But it would take the enjoyment out of reading,” my [...]
Jellyfish Have Eyes by Joram Piatigorsky. Fiction. Piatigorsky’s debut novel is a suspenseful thriller mixing the biological sciences – research into the surprisingly fascinating world of jellyfish eyes – and politics.
Final drafts, like any marketed product, look polished, straightforward and consistent, but that’s not how they got there. Much is left out of any published book, or any final product for that matter. Final products shine as the tips of the creative process. Readers get little information on what thoughts and agonizing contradictions characters suffer [...]
"In this original and provocative combination of science and fiction, Joram Piatigorsky brings to life evidence of Dr. Johnson’s observation that Truth can be made more accessible when draped in the robes of fiction."
–Warren Poland, MD, Psychoanalyst, author, Melting the Darkness
A wonderful book! The book's main character is a scientist, an expert on diseases affecting eyes, who becomes fascinated by jellyfish. (They do have eyes…very complex eyes!) The book is interesting on many levels: the value of basic scientific research; the pressure to link research to medical advances in order to obtain funding, and the [...]
Figure 1. Cubozoan visual system.The visual system of the cubozoan Tripedalia cystophora (A) comprises four sensory structures called rhopalia (B). Each rhopalium carries six eyes of four morphological types (lower lens eye LLE, upper lens eye ULE, pit eye PE and slit eye SE) and a light sensitive neuropil (NP, red broken line). The [...]
