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Greg Ross

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in Pittsburgh, PA, The United States

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http://www.futilitycloset.com/

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Science, History, Nonfiction

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Greg Ross edits the popular website Futility Closet, a collection of entertaining curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics. Previously he spent 20 years editing science, engineering, and education publications for publishers such as IEEE, UNext.com, and American Scientist magazine. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game at chess. …

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, a

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	Futility Closet: An Idler's Miscellany of Compendious Amusements 4.26 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Futility Closet 2: A Second Trove of Intriguing Tidbits 4.49 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hut Food: A New Zealand-Canadian Alpine Hiking Adventure liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE TENTH ALPINE DREAM AND ITS RESCUE: A TRUE TRAVEL AND OUTDOOR SURVIVAL STORY by Greg Ross (Goodreads Author), GREGORY ROSS BA (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Two atoms are walking down the street. One says, “Wait, I think I lost an electron.” The other says, “Are you sure?” The first one says, “Yes, I’m positive.”
― Greg Ross, Futility Closet: An Idler's Miscellany of Compendious Amusements

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“Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest. He didn’t even make the finals. Afterward he told a reporter that he was “tempted to give lessons in the Chaplin walk, out of pity as well as in the desire to see the thing done correctly.”
― Greg Ross, Futility Closet: An Idler's Miscellany of Compendious Amusements

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“After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” —Cato the Elder”
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“How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!”
― John Aubrey, Brief Lives

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“I find that a great part of the information I have acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way”
― Franklin P. Adams

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“The man who publishes a book without an index ought to be damned 10 miles beyond hell, where the Devil himself cannot get for stinging nettles.”
― John Baynes

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