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Futility Closet is a blog, podcast, and database started in 2005 by editorial manager and publishing journalist Greg Ross.[1]

History

In January 2005, Greg Ross started the Futility Closet website, an online wunderkammer of trivia, quotations, mathematical curiosities, chess problems, and other diversions.[2] The site has spawned two printed collections,[3] and continues to be updated daily. Gary Antonick of the New York Times' Numberplay blog described the first book as "the literary equivalent of Trader Joe's Tempting Trail Mix".[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Antonick, Gary (2016-10-03). "The Prisoners' Paradox". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  2. ^ Mark Frauenfelder (2011-10-17). "Interview with Futility Closet blogger Greg Ross / Boing Boing". Boingboing.net. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
  3. ^ "Books". Futility Closet. 2013-11-22. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
  4. ^ Antonick, Gary (10 February 2014). "The Necktie Paradox". Wordplay. The New York Times. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
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