If the general doom of the world is getting you down, you might need a pick-me-up book. I highly suggest #WhatIf by Randall Munroe, the cartoonist behind @xkcd. If you read #TheMartian by @andyweirauthor or watched @MythBusters, you may already know some version of the glorious comedy of intelligent people having fun with math and science. Answering questions that only the strange ask, Munroe tackles how high a steak would need to fall before it was cooked, what would happen if everyone in the world went to the same spot and jumped, and if you could use guns to make a jetpack. Pick this up to laugh and stretch your imagination.