Ella Frances Sanders delights us once again, this time with a popular science book that addresses major questions about living beings, nature, and the universe, traversing disciplines such as astronomy, genetics, physics, biology, botany, and ecology. It's a journey full of surprises, as the book's title suggests; with brief stops in the Milky Way, the Northern Lights, the heart of atoms, and even the jumble of perceptions we have of ourselves: "We may not be the splendid, important, and singular entity we think we are, but the truth is that we need to form some idea of ​​ourselves in order to function in the world (...)" Told with Sanders's effective, accessible, colloquial, and vibrant style, while avoiding the gibberish that scientific language often devolves into, he consistently employs specific terms when the subject matter requires them—such as "eisengrau," "chronoception," "multiverses," or "parallax"—and even alludes unabashedly to physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, astronomer Arthur Eddington, or philosopher David Hume. He uses comparative data provided by science to open our eyes to realities we have rarely imagined: someone who lives to eighty may have breathed more than 700 million times throughout their life, walked the equivalent of circumnavigating the globe five times, and had a heart rate of 2.6 trillion beats.