John Farrell is a writer and producer working in Boston. He is the
author of The Day Without Yesterday: Lemaître, Einstein and the Birth
of Modern Cosmology from Basic Books, and The Clock and the Camshaft: And Other Medieval Inventions We Still can't Live Without from Prometheus Books. A graduate of Harvard College, Farrell has written for Commonweal, Cosmos Magazine,
New Scientist, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian,
Aeon , Salon, Nautilius, and the Boston Globe.