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Futility Closet by Greg Ross

For nine years the popular website Futility Closet has collected arresting curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics. This book presents the best of them: pipe-smoking robots, clairvoyant pennies, zoo jailbreaks, literary cannibals, corned beef in space, revolving squirrels, disappearing Scottish lighthouse keepers, reincarnated pussycats, dueling Churchills, horse spectacles, onrushing molasses, and hundreds more. Plus the obscure words, odd inventions, puzzles and paradoxes that have made the website a quirky favorite with millions of readers -- hundreds of examples of the marvelous, the diverting, and the strange, now in a portable format to occupy your idle hours.

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Greg Ross is the editor of the popular website Futility Closet, which features amusing oddities from history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics. He formerly worked for publishers such as IEEE, UNext.com, and American Scientist magazine, where he spent 20 years editing science, engineering, and education publications. He is a Raleigh, North Carolina resident.

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ISBN 13 9780989887106
ISBN 10 0989887103
Title Futility Closet
Author Greg Ross
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Futility Closet
Year published 2013-11-18
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.