Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg (4 July 1883 – 7 December 1970) was an American cartoonist who received a 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning. He is best known for his series of popular cartoons depicting Rube Goldberg machines, complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. The Reuben Award of the National Cartoonists Society is named in his honor. In addition, there are several contests around the world known as Rube Goldberg contests which challenge high school students to make a complex machine to perform a simple task.
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Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday praised the 972 members of the U.S.- 10:57 pm The son of a man shot dead by city police led more than 100 protesters Saturday in demanding...- 10:44 pm There was a serious message behind the lively street fair along S ...
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Money doesn't just talk in America, it screams. That's a problem when it comes to art. The noisy gawking at price tags too often drowns out an honest dialogue about, you know, actual art. Money buys art, but it doe ...
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From the Department of Inessentiality, Summer Division, comes Men in Black 3, one of those franchises that lost all creative life in the first sequel but keep drawing breath anyway, thanks to an iron lung powered ...
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Keith Handy wrote in us know that he’s made some more mods to his awesomely odd device that is designed to make the Korg Monotron easier to play. The device features a ‘Giant Pitch Bar’ that allows for more much ...
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In a recent column, David Brooks (NYT) condemns President Obama for his attacks on Mitt Romney and Bain Capital, pointing out the crucially important role private equity firms have played in rehabilitating a formerly "bloated" ...
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From Melvinthemachine.com So what’s new? Early 2012, we had some time to spare and we felt the need to challenge ourselves once again, so we set out to build a new Melvin. This time around we could determine our own boundaries and that’s why we decided ...
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