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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Snow again! Shoveling driveways, digging out cars, power outages, the misery of winter. But then there’s the other side: the magic of nature. Small flakes at first, then big ones floating in air, blown here and there like cotton in a breeze, fluffy as freshly washed hair of a young woman; beautiful. And quiet, [...]
I’m getting into blogging. Now I view almost everything I encounter as a potential blog that can be developed if I choose to do so. It takes an effort to focus on what to say, to play with ideas, to take a side trip in creativity. But if I don’t seize the opportunity, it slips away. [...]
Sailor Circus – Sarasota, Florida A few years ago I wrote an essay – Cracks – my first blog, which considers time the interval between experiences left dangling to squeeze in more experiences: time as space, a medium for things to happen, stillness as well as movement, nothing as well as something. I was [...]
