• Futility Closet is a blog, podcast, and database started in 2005 by editorial manager and publishing journalist Greg Ross. As of February 2021 the database...
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    mind best described as the most abject idiocy. "For What It's Worth". Futility Closet. 9 December 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2022. Hanks, Mark (30 April...
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    2016. Ross, Greg (6 February 2017). "Podcast Episode 140: Ramanujan". Futility Closet. Retrieved 24 December 2023. James R. Newman, ed. (2000). The world...
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  • faculty.history.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 12 January 2020. "The Isdal Woman". Futility Closet. 3 January 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2019. "Kalde spor fra Isdalen" [Cold...
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  • the notable are the following: Cut-the-knot by Alexander Bogomolny Futility Closet by Greg Ross Mathologer by Burkard Polster The videos of Vi Hart Stand-Up...
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    Ross, Greg (12 November 2018). "Podcast Episode 224: Lady Death". Futility Closet. Retrieved 17 November 2023. Lady Sniper, TIME Magazine (Monday, 28...
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    Ross, Greg (4 June 2018). "Podcast Episode 203: Notes and Queries". Futility Closet. Retrieved 25 December 2023. Costikyan, Greg (1994). "I Have No Words...
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    occupant" (p. 185). In 2017 Jacobs was the subject of an episode of the Futility Closet Podcast, where her experience living in a crawlspace was compared with...
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    (2009), p. 153 The Ross, Greg (7 September 2015). "Futility Closet Podcast Ep 72". Futility Closet. Hunting Haydn's Head, BBC Radio 4 broadcast by Simon...
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    Elaborately Re-Gifted the Same Pair of Pants for Over Two Decades Futility Closet: The Christmas War "Moleskin Pants Destroyed in Fire; Tradition, Too"...
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    lives". The Decatur Daily. Retrieved July 3, 2014. "Zeus Displeased". Futility Closet. January 12, 2010. Retrieved July 3, 2014. Gritzner, C (1997). "Human...
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    1080/00029890.2003.11920033. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-12-24. "The Figure 8 Puzzle". Futility Closet. 2012-06-23. Retrieved 2020-08-05....
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    Copyright 1993. ISBN 0-89024-144-9 Pages 24-40 "Reduced Housing – Futility Closet". Futility Closet. "The Prescott Courier - Google News Archive Search". google...
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    2018-02-21. "Podcast Episode 297: A Sinto Boxer in Nazi Germany". Futility Closet. 2020-05-25. Retrieved 2020-05-26. "Sinti and Roma – Holocaust Teacher...
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  • Los Pequeños Gigantes and a 2009 film called The Perfect Game. The Futility Closet podcast covered the team and their Little League World Series championship...
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    skyscraperpage.com. Loyrette, 1985 p. 174. Ross, Greg (18 May 2021). "Plea". Futility Closet. Paul Souriau; Manon Souriau (1983). The Aesthetics of Movement. University...
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    occupant" (p. 185). In 2017 Jacobs was the subject of an episode of the Futility Closet Podcast, where her experience living in a crawl space was compared...
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    soul? Around the world by car in 1908.) The June 2, 2014 Episode of Futility Closet podcast focuses on this race. Episode 323 of American podcast The Dollop...
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    com. 9 May 2023. "Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication". STARMUS Festival. Greg Ross (20 April 2021). "The Hawking Index". Futility Closet....
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  • "Gardner Hotel – El Paso, Texas" April 18, 2016 (2016-04-18) N/A 86 2 "Futility Closet" "Sandy Shore Motel – Misquamicut, Rhode Island" April 25, 2016 (2016-04-25)...
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  • Parrondo's paradox Parrondo's Paradox - A Simulation Parrondo's Paradox at Futility Closet Parrondo's Paradox at Wolfram Online Parrondo simulator Parrondo's...
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  • nearest established settlement is Jackpot, Nevada. Reference on "USA Historical Sites" Article on Futility Closet Article on the Snake River Plain v t e...
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    2009 Ross, Greg (8 March 2013). "How to Roast a Pound of Butter". Futility Closet. "Timbs, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder...
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  • August 2014). In 2017 Fowler was the subject of an episode of the Futility Closet Podcast, where his experience living in a wardrobe was compared with...
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  • after him as well. Courtauld was the subject of a 2017 episode of the Futility Closet Podcast, chronicling his time at the Greenland weather station. Scott...
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    prison cemetery. LoBagola was the subject of a 2016 episode of the Futility Closet Podcast. Brochure for Speaking Engagements by LoBagola Lindfors, Bernth...
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    author Paul Sloane; and many of these problems are featured on the Futility Closet website. He has written several books about the 1952 American film...
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  • Samuelsen and Harbo's voyage was the subject of a 2016 episode of the Futility Closet Podcast. New York World, 13 Feb 1896, p16. New York Herald, 6 Jun 1896...
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  • Recreations" Scientific American, October 1984, pp 18–22 A New Pangram Futility Closet, November 16, 2015 Chris Patuzzo on self-enumerating pangrams Podcast...
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  • long time in the future." Ross, Greg (8 July 2018). "Confidences". Futility Closet. Retrieved 11 July 2018. Schofield, Hugh (3 June 2018). "The secrets...
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