PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- At Pitchers Pub in Manayunk, you can grab a beer, watch the game and get some grub from Reuben, aka Chef Big Rube, Harley. It is, he says, a dive bar with elevated flavors. His ...

Has the world finally caught up with Rube Goldberg? As daily life gets more complicated -- just how many steps does it take to activate a cellphone these days? -- the mechanized whimsy of Goldberg's ...

His name has become an adjective for anything too complicated for its own good, but cartoonist Rube Goldberg’s gifts extended far beyond his cockamamie inventions. Before “Rube Goldberg” became an ...

I don’t want to get my picture taken. It’s a soupy Wednesday afternoon, and I’m four months pregnant. I’m exhausted, pasty-white with nausea, and wearing the only pants that fit, which are so ...

In 99 percent of cases, saying that an invention is an enormous waste of time would be a negative. In the instance of Rube Goldberg machines, it’s precisely the point. Heck, the more time it wastes, ...

Rube Goldberg: The man behind the machines From the maddening board game Mouse Trap to that awesome OK GO video (to the hundreds of brilliant contraptions scattered across YouTube), Rube Goldberg ...

If nothing else, 3M is an impressive company for the sheer breadth of products it offers. According to Wikipedia, it makes more than 55,000 products, “including adhesives, abrasives, laminates, ...

For the past 30 years, participants across the world annually compete to make their own Rube Goldberg Machine — a uniquely laborious solution for achieving basic goals named after the celebrated ...

SEATTLE—When most Americans think of the dawn of the engineering era, they probably think less of specific devices or factories and more of one pop-culture icon who was obsessed with them: Rube ...

Before I was interrupted in our last edition, I was taking you into the world of the Negro Leagues. I was about to introduce you to Andrew “Rube” Foster. Rube is most famous for his role as one of the ...