Based in Brazil, Fernanda Ferreira is a science writer who covers a range of STEM (and occasionally non-STEM) topics, from textile conservation to vaccine stockpiles.
When US Army Major Sebastian Engels and his family moved to Tbilisi, Georgia, in the Caucasus region of Eurasia, some of their furniture and moving boxes ended up diverted to Atlanta. “People just made the assumption we were headed that way,” says Engels. “Now I always lead with ‘the country of Georgia,’ whenever I talk about it.”