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 ...

MT. COMFORT — Cayden Spoon stood before his fellow third-graders in his class at Mt. Comfort Elementary School. A model of a bed with a crank on the end of it rested on the table before him. “Are you ...

Marble machines are the kind of useless mechanisms that everybody loves. Their sole purpose is to route marbles through different paths for your viewing pleasure. They can be extremely complicated ...

Have you ever wanted to build a ridiculous contraption with your kids? The sort of homemade machine that takes a simple, everyday task—like, I don’t know, passing the salt—and makes it unnecessarily ...

Rube Goldberg (1883–1970) was born in an era defined by massive technological upheaval. But where others recoiled at the march of progress, Goldberg saw “the funny,” writes Thimmesh in lucidly ...