Now a new book turns those drawings into puzzles that sharpen your mind in a world that seems increasingly set on mooting and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rube Goldberg machines are a dime a dozen on the internet. A fact that doesn’t make the circuitous chain-reaction machines any ...

When the staff at the Queens Museum learned that a traveling exhibition dedicated to Rube Goldberg was touring the country, they knew their museum needed to be a stop. They also knew the museum had to ...

Crappy robots are all the craze these days, with YouTube’s greatest engineering minds working on everything from tazer-happy desks to skin-crawling toilet machines. But crappy Rube Goldberg machines, ...

Even if you don’t know his name, you have likely seen a Rube Goldberg machine in a television commercial, cartoon or movie. The complicated mechanical systems are often made of everyday items cobbled ...

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, ...

When it comes to chain reactions, San Jose resident Alex Huang and the rest of the six-person Reactica team are real artists. Coming from various homes around North America, they’re part of a YouTube ...

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 ...

For a man whose name suggests convoluted machinery stretching across vast expanses to perform elaborate tasks, Rube Goldberg’s gravestone is a bit understated. Goldberg was buried at Mount Pleasant ...

There’s a lot going on in the world right now, but if you’re looking for a sight that should only bring joy and delight to your eyes, look no further than this delightful clip of a gang of curious ...