Jon Farrow

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  • A letter to Carl Sagan

    A letter to Carl Sagan

    Dear Carl, We never met and we never will, but I wanted to let you know how much you inspire me.

  • Eating ice

    Eating ice

    Do you feel like you need to eat ice? You might want to get your iron checked.

  • Springtime

    Springtime

    We all accept that time zones are totally normal, but they’re pretty weird. For some reason, we’ve all agreed that when you go over certain lines on the globe, not only might you be…

  • The March for Science

    The March for Science

    What do you believe in strongly enough that you’ll take to the streets to defend it? Turns out that science is one of those things for me.

  • Hot water myths

    Hot water myths

    Here in Britain, most sinks have two taps. Turn one and you get hot water, turn the other and you get cold. It’s barbaric.

  • Under-appreciated animals

    Under-appreciated animals

    Here’s a website I love: http://tolweb.org/. It’s the Tree of Life, scientifically accurate and properly referenced.

  • Explain this

    Explain this

    Here’s a question I’ve been thinking about recently: Why does explaining improve some things and ruin others?

  • Why care about exoplanets?

    Why care about exoplanets?

    Nasa made a big announcement last week: seven Earth-sized planets orbit a star 40 light-years away and 3 of them are in the planet’s habitable zone. Why should we care?

  • A million-year-old mystery

    A million-year-old mystery

    There is a tool that has been around for over million years, that archaeologists keep finding in caves, ditches, wells, and prehistoric settlements. They’re older and more ubiquitous than wheels, than pottery, than pretty much…