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Students Vie To Over-Engineer in 2015 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

New Auburn High School students came up with the overly engineered concoction, shown in this YouTube video, thereby winning the 2014 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest ... middle school division requires a... read more

Nine Kansas City Metro teams to compete in regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

Feb. 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Teams of students from eight area schools and the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization will compete on March 4 in the Division 1 Regional Rube Goldberg Machine Conte... read more

The Mother of all Rube Goldberg Machines!

You’ve probably seen a Rube Goldberg machine in a science museum sometime, and watched with amusement while balls rolled down tracks or balloons inflated, triggering other mechanical events in a compl... read more

Why can't Walker make up his mind?

His decision-making process on major issues is starting to resemble a Rube Goldberg machine. We need complex flow charts to ... In the words of Machiavelli, "But they took that middle course which is ... read more

Weekend Calendar (Oct. 7-9)

"American Spirit," 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13 at Beaver Falls Middle School. Part of the Beaver Valley Community ... featuring Ron Herbert and Jeff Paul from the Eldorado Band. 24th Annual American Indian Gath... read more

Hazim's Philadelphia neighborhood

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What's the Future of the American Dream?

We're asking our guests and our viewers what is their vision for the future of the American Dream — and how we can achieve those visions. View a sample below and then tell us your vision for the futur... read more

Cameras, RFID Chips Are Tracking the Contents of Your Garbage

In the name of ensuring compliance with local recycling laws, a number of cities are Flickr/Joe Haupt using cameras, RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) chips, and even deputizing trash collectors w... read more

12 Holiday Gifts That Writers Will Actually Use

In “Aren’t You Dead Yet?”, one of the stories in Elissa Schappell’s new collection, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, the narrator, an aspiring writer, receives a black, leather-bound journal as a ... read more

Oops! White House fails basic geography test

Looks like someone in the White House press office needs to brush up on his or her U.S. geography. The press office issued credentials to those reporters and photojournalists who are covering the pres... read more

The OK Go Video: Playing With the Speed of Time

Their last video memorably featured a Rube Goldberg machine that filled a two-floor warehouse and took four minutes to complete its sequence of wonder and mayhem. This time, the tech-happy band recrui... read more

Students Vie To Over-Engineer in 2015 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

Purdue University students came up with the overly engineered concoction, demonstrated in this YouTube video, thereby winning the 2014 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. A Rube Goldberg Machine is an over... read more