Incredibly Interesting Authors 004: Greg Ross of Futility Closet

Incredibly Interesting Authors by Mark Frauenfelder

Jan 10, 201423:50Arts

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, clairvo...

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