What the everyday world is telling you about atoms. The face in the window ; Why atoms rock and roll all over the place ; No more than two peas in a pod at a time -- What the everyday world is telling you about the stars. We need to talk about Kelvin ; You, me, and the spectacularly unlikely triple-alpha process ; The 4.5-billion-degree furnace -- What the everyday world is telling you about the universe. The unutterable feebleness of starlight ; The bang before the Big One ; The Humpty Dumpty tendency ; Random reality ; Earth's full, go home.