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Rube Goldberg’s Nutty Inventions Neatly Skewered Our Technocratic World
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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.
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Nov. 24 2013
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