“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,...
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...
The image above is from the 2014 report: Ocular and Extraocular Expression of Opsins in the Rhopalium of Tripedalia cystophora (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) Abstract A growing body of work on the neuroethology of cubozoans is based largely on the capabilities of the...
After the Japanese collector and entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa bought Jean-Michel Basquiat’s skull painting for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s auction the other day (the same picture sold for $19,000 in 1984!), he proudly posted on his Instagram account, “I am happy to...
Among my pet peeves is the commonly accepted notion that creativity slips away with age. What pressure that puts on the first half of life! Imagine that you’re 40, still young. Are you really in the eighth inning – okay, the seventh – of an imaginary baseball game?...
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