topsy turvy universes and other stories

this is not a Planck post...

why, yes, I am procrastinating...
and there is Moore:

Moore's Law in Astronomy and UFOs

The Prose Awards: academic books
"Modern Statistical Methods for Astronomy, With R Applications"
By Eric D. Feigelson and G. Jogesh Babu
winner in Cosmology and Astronomy

and...

The Physics of the Kip, and not in the way it mean to me for decades. It only looks impossible.

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