Brian Gregory's Profile

Plain and simple, there are no stocks worth betting the house on. If anyone tells you that, run in the opposite direction. That's because even "seemingly enticing situations" can turn out to be not so enticing after all.

You'll learn why--even though the Universe is expanding--it never
gets any easier to find a parking place. And Martha Stellar will show
you how to make a star. And you'll read a classic potboiler account of
the origin of life on Earth ("It was a dark and stormy night. In the
shallow tide pool, a nucleic acid base collided with a sugar
molecule.  An amino acid
sank beneath the murky depths . . . ."). Other great moments in Eric
Schulman's whiz-bang collection of the universe's greatest hits are: