Incredibly Interesting Authors 004: Greg Ross of Futility Closet

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. Here's my interview with Greg about his new book and his new career as a full-time curator of curiosities. Buy a copy of the Futility Closet book on Amazon .

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Incredibly Interesting Authors 004: Greg Ross of Futility Closet is an episode from Incredibly Interesting Authors by Mark Frauenfelder.

This episode is 23:50 long.

This episode was published on Jan 10, 2014.

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