In the prologue of my novel Jellyfish Have Eyes, Ricardo reflects on his dead wife and tells her, “If you had been there and seen the jellyfish, Lillian. They have eyes and minds. We have so much to learn from them.” Ricardo, a fierce believer in chasing ideas that fascinated him, had gone to La [...]
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.
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 [...]
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.
Ricardo, the protagonist in my novel Jellyfish Have Eyes speculated that jellyfish are smarter than we think, that they have a brain of sorts, and that they interact in jellyfish lingo that we don’t understand - gibberish talk. Jellyfish may be a bit extreme, but I think Ricardo makes his point: don’t be too sure that [...]
'Like messengers rising from the depths, they propelled themselves through the water effortlessly.' Many years ago I asked my father after I heard him play the Dvorak cello concerto if he ever got bored playing the same composition so often. “No,” he said, “because every time I play it, I learn something [...]
