Would you venture in anyway? Would I face a lethal jellyfish - with eyes? Scrolling through recent jellyfish news I came across some interesting articles. Beware these so-called “blobs.” One article was from West Australia about large numbers of box jellies washed up on the beach. I have occasionally seen various species of jellyfish on [...]
We humans are so smug. We consider lowly invertebrates primitive. We think we’re smart and can outlast hard times better than animals can in the wild by using our wits and engineering skills, which I admit are impressive. We figured out how to outdo Nature and switch our sex to become what we call [...]
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.
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 [...]
