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.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. |
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