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EartherClimate ChangeEmails Show Texas Officials Shared Climate Denier’s Talking Points During Blackouts
As the lights went out during last month’s cold snap, Texas politicians turned to talking points from Alex Epstein, a regular on the climate denial circuit, to explain their way out of the mess. NBC reported Thursday that Epstein’s propaganda found its way into the inbox of Gov. Greg Abbott and that the chairman of … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidIt Takes Five Obscenely Complicated Minutes for This Machine to Dispense a Single Piece of Tape
When it comes to Rube Goldberg machines, if you have to ask why, you’ll probably never understand the joy of building impossibly complex machines to accomplish the simplest of tasks. Need a piece of tape? This machine takes almost five minutes to do nothing but dispense a sticky strip. And that’s assuming all the mechanisms—made … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Rube Goldberg Basketball Machine Has Enough Tricks to Be a Harlem Globetrotter
It seems not even basketball court jester is a job that’s safe from from the rise of the machines. Students from Georgia Tech built a giant Rube Goldberg contraption that’s capable of reproducing many of the Harlem Globetrotter’s most crowd-pleasing tricks; from spinning a ball on a finger, to simply sinking baskets. As fun as … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Brilliantly Complex Rube Goldberg Machine Finally Puts Fidget Spinners to Good Use
Having survived the great fidget spinner fad of 2017, the world is now struggling to find ways to put billions of abandoned spinners to good use. It might not solve the problem of Everest-sized mountains of unwanted stress toys, but YouTuber Kaplamino’s latest Rube Goldberg machine at least finds a novel use for them. Kaplamino … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidZone Out With This Hypnotizing Wall-Mounted Rube Goldberg Machine
At my fingertips lies the entire internet, filled with a near-infinite number of digital distractions. So why do I keep watching Steve Price’s latest Rube Goldberg machine featuring the adventures of a red ball encountering countless complex contraptions all powered by nothing but gravity? If there’s a startup out there with dreams of becoming the … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidIt Took 297 Agonizing Tries For This Complex Rube Goldberg Machine to Work Flawlessly
After losing a bet, YouTube’s jackofallspades98 spent four months building one of the most complicated Rube Goldberg machines I’ve ever seen. Spread across two tables, it’s so dense and complex that it took 297 attempts before it worked all the way from start to finish. It’s hard to imagine trying anything 297 times until you … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Epic Rube Goldberg Machine Includes a Gravity-Defying Whiteboard Flip
As someone who still struggles to string a bunch of words together into cohesive sentences, I can’t even begin to wrap my brain around the thought processes required to plan and execute an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine like this. That whiteboard flip is at least worth a nomination for a Nobel Prize. It takes almost … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Rube Goldberg Machine Is the Best Action Movie I’ve Seen in Years
Most Rube Goldberg machines are designed to complicate a very simple task, but a Japanese TV show called Pitagora Suitchi—which translates to Pythagoras Switch—created an endlessly complex contraption to tell the story of two colored balls who have to rescue their trapped brother. Biisuke Ball’s Big Adventure is actually a sequel to an earlier Rube … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidRube Goldberg Machine Made of Sex Toys Rings in the New Year (NSFW)
Practically any halfway decent Rube Goldberg machine is worth taking a few moments to watch. Sex toys would’ve been enough to make this one a fairly solid addition to the canon. But the excellent sound effects bring it to life and the moment that the ball-gagged sub is roused from slumber to play his part … Continued
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Tech NewsDesignThis Massive Rube Goldberg Machine Uses the Internet to Visit Five Different Cities
Thanks to the internet and being able to easily share videos of them playing out, those pointlessly complicated Rube Goldberg machines are more popular than ever. But this wonderful kinetic sculpture actually uses the internet as one of its countless mechanisms so that it’s able to play out across five different cities across the United … Continued
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The HTML Rube Goldberg Machine Is a Vortex You Can’t Escape
Every web developer take note: Sebastian Ly Serena has come up with a brilliant way to make your website more entertaining and captivating—without clogging it up with boring content. Just turn it into a HTML-based Rube Goldberg machine and watch the clicks roll in. Using self-filling forms, checkboxes, buttons, and other auto-triggering HTML tricks is … Continued
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Tech NewsThe World’s Tiniest Rube Goldberg Machine Made of Watch Parts Is a Masterpiece
The infinite number of ways you can build a complicated Rube Goldberg machine makes it infinitely fascinating to watch them run. Even when they’re built from tiny watch parts like this Seiko creation, and are so small they can easily squeeze onto a table, instead of filling a massive warehouse. It’s a little disappointing that … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidI Did Not Expect the End of This Rube Goldberg Machine to Be Like This
Rube Goldberg machines are always fun because you get to see everything happen in a linear fashion and yet still don’t know what the grand finale is. It’s like you kind of, sort of see where it’s going but still remain excited on the next step of the machine. This Rube Goldberg machine by Arrow … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis Chaotic Rube Goldberg Machine Is the Most Complicated Way to Get a Soda
There are 175 steps in this Rube Goldberg Machine made by berlagawesome and they’re all layered right after each other and on top of each other and basically all over each other that it’s so chaotic that you don’t always know what’s going on and where to follow. But then somehow, the ball manages to … Continued
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Tech NewsThe World’s Slowest Rube Goldberg Machine Requires All Your Patience
Don’t get too excited about stumbling across another video of a dazzlingly fast-moving, complicated Rube Goldberg machine. While this creation certainly has some clever mechanisms, it’s also billed as the world’s slowest—and that’s actually selling it short. Designed and built by YouTuber Bob Partington, watching a golf ball get from one end of this maze … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidScience and Post-It notes power this Rube Goldberg machine
3M used 25,000 post its, 75 rolls of that blue painter tape, and a whole bunch of other stuff to make this wildly complicated Rube Goldberg machine that’s actually really fun to watch. Unlike other Rube Goldberg machines, it’s not totally obvious how it’ll progress from one level to the next, like a slow burn … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidImpossible Rube Goldberg machine cleverly breaks the concept of reality
When you live in the carefully edited Vine world of magic and wizardry and spells and sorcery, you can make anything happen. Zach King is the master of flipping the construct of reality on its head and transforming things into something entirely different. Take this Rube Goldberg machine that starts out normally and then gets … Continued
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