The Oddly Quiet Universe: How the CMB challenges cosmology's standard
  model
  We discuss selected large-scale anomalies in the maps of temperature
anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. Specfically, these include
alignments of the largest modes of CMB anisotropy with one another and with the
geometry and direction of motion of the Solar System, and the unexpected
absence of two-point angular corellations especially outside the region of the
sky most contaminated by the Galaxy. We discuss these findings in relation to
expectations from standard inflationary cosmology. This paper is adapted from a
talk given by one of us (GDS) at the SEENET-2011 meeting in August 2011 on the
Serbian bank of the Danube River.
