What takes over 20 different steps in order to shine a shoe? Nothing, in a world other than the one created by the Rube Goldberg club. For the fourth year, several UA engineering students are working ...

Tonight, we are making things incredibly complicated--because that's what Zach Umperovitch likes to do. He's a Rube Goldberg expert, a Guinness Record Holder, a judge and producer for "Contraption ...

Decades after Mr. Goldberg, a cartoonist, died, artists and engineers have found creative inspiration in his outlandish inventions. By Sam Corbin What’s the simplest way to open a can? Faced with this ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The Philadelphia Contraption Contest, coming in April, teaches kids that life is ...

Motor City Machine bills itself as a “a giant version of the game Mousetrap,” “a Rube Goldberg Machine of pulleys, dominoes, whizzing balls” and more created by teams from all over metro Detroit. They ...

CHICAGO — Cartoonist Rube Goldberg (1883–1970) was best known for his depictions of complicated contraptions with far too many moving parts built to solve the simplest of problems. These “Rube ...

I do not share the editorial staff’s enthusiasm (Globe, Aug. 25) for the “Rube Goldberg Miracle Machine” at the Schroeder Family Exploreum. More individuals are living downtown as buildings are being ...