Perhaps you played the game Mouse Trap as a kid or are familiar with the concept of a Rube Goldberg machine, where pieces ...

We all know what it means to procrastinate, but what about actively spending time building a useless machine ... it a step further by adding some [Rube Goldberg] flavor, and with the help of ...

For nearly two decades, science teacher Tom Harden has sent students to Westinghouse’s Chain Reaction Contraption competition — which tasks students with creating Rube Goldberg-style machines ...

As we all know, Rube Goldberg is most famous for his contraption cartoons that employ ridiculous chain reactions to solve every day problems. These intricate machines were all inventions of Rube ...

Peter Fischli and David Weiss's "The Way Things Go" is a 30-minute long Rube Goldberg machine made of flames, tires and a little dry ice. The team's retrospective is now on exhibition at the ...

DECATUR — The point of a Rube Goldberg is to create the most complicated machine you can, to do the simplest task you can imagine. Named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg, the machines perform chain ...