I love a good read. But this year, I couldn’t seem to find one that stuck. Then a few months ago, someone handed me a paperback mystery. The book sat on my shelf for a few weeks until one day I picked it up on a whim.

Iceland is known for dramatic weather. But this is surreal even by the standards of fire and ice.

Can you guess how many flowers, on average, a bee hive has to travel to and gather nectar from to make one pound of honey? (One pound, by the way, is roughly equivalent to those little teddy bear jars you see at the grocery store.) 

Earlier this month, four astronauts splashed down in the Pacific after becoming the first humans to fly around the moon in over fifty years. One of the astronauts, Christina Koch, stepped onto a stage in Houston, still finding her “earth legs,” and said something I haven’t been able to shake.