What is a Rube Goldberg machine? We've all seen one if not tried to make our own. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a "Rube Goldberg" is defined as "a comically involved, complicated ...

His name has become an adjective for anything too complicated for its own good, but cartoonist Rube Goldberg’s gifts extended far beyond his cockamamie inventions. Before “Rube Goldberg” became an ...

If you've seen the recent viral video where three little girls turn their stereotypically girly toys into an awesome Rube Goldberg machine – while a revamped version of the Beastie Boys song "Girls" ...

Purdue Society of Professional Engineers student Rube Goldberg team regained the national championship in 2014 with a zipper zipping machine. The Purdue machine was the first in over three decades of ...

In 99 percent of cases, saying that an invention is an enormous waste of time would be a negative. In the instance of Rube Goldberg machines, it’s precisely the point. Heck, the more time it wastes, ...

Cartoonist Rube Goldberg sketched some of the zaniest, complicated machines that have inspired countless real-life imitations. And no matter how many times you see one, their absurdly over-complicated ...

Rube Goldberg Workshop is now available on Quest, letting you make tons of different crazy—dare we say—Rube Goldbergian machines. Built on Quest’s Presence platform, users can choose to play either in ...

They seem like vestiges of the past: mechanical devices full of gimmicks, elaborate color comics in Sunday papers, fanciful movie sets for Charlie Chaplin — and the Three Stooges. So the first ...

Choreographer Jody Oberfeld’s latest theatrical movement-based work, “Rube G.-The Consequence of Action,” draws upon the Jewish cartoonist’s signature contraptions. (New York Jewish Week) — Are we ...