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See Old Florida on an airboat ride

Tampa Bay Times 04 Nov 2021

I was kicking myself as a lifelong Floridian that I had never tried an airboat trip. It’s an experience that isn’t easily found, but I discovered that it’s worth the time. You have to drive to the boonies and then get on a funny-looking boat that resembles a Rube Goldberg contraption ... That’s why it’s worth the trip ... Some tips. It’s loud ... 863-696-0406.

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Extracting Data From Smart Scale Gives Rube Goldberg A Run For His Money

TheNewsHOOK 31 Oct 2021

Extracting Data From Smart Scale Gives Rube Goldberg A Run For His Money ....

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Patrick Hynes: Hassan’s strategy of avoidance is not working

Union Leader 31 Oct 2021

LAST WEEK, Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) unveiled his long-prophesied wealth tax as a “pay for” in the ongoing discussions about President Joe Biden’s monstrous, multi-trillion spending plan. Wyden’s plan, of dubious constitutionality, is a Rube Goldberg contraption that would set in motion a cascade of negative effects on the U.S ... U.S.

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Cirque Mechanics to bring acrobatics to Conway

Log Cabin Democrat 29 Oct 2021

Nov. 16. “Birdhouse Factory” was inspired in part by the masterful industry murals of Mexican-born artist Diego Rivera, the outrageous illustrations of cartoonist Rube Goldberg and the slap-stick style humor of Charlie Chaplin’s film “Modern Times .” ... The New York Times has called the show, “Exceptional, evocative and engrossingly entertaining.” ... .

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Students devise elaborate system to safely deliver Halloween candy

Daily Camera 29 Oct 2021

Two Colorado high school students created a candy delivery system for Halloween in Louisville that safely delivers candy to trick-or-treaters without contact ... (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer) ... John Redding said his son and Dols are interested in Rube Goldberg machines, which is a contraption designed to complete a task in many steps ... .

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The 5 Best New TV Shows Our Critic Watched in October 2021

Time Magazine 29 Oct 2021

As October nears its spooky, sugar-saturated end, one thing is clear ... So it came as a pleasant surprise when I found myself getting sucked into Baking Impossible, which pairs bakers with engineers to construct edible artworks that double as Rube Goldberg machines, survive car crashes and pass all manner of other stress tests ... Love Life (HBO Max) ... .

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DENIM SPIRIT: Truth, justice, and not necessarily the American way

Finger Lakes Times 27 Oct 2021

Science is not synonymous with truth and the law does not mean justice ... Hysteria about “fake news” becomes plausible when language is misused and false equivalencies are allowed to stand ... Science is a process, not a static conclusion ... Now, the problem with the law as the dispenser of justice is that it is a closed system — a Rube Goldberg machine ... .

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Federal judge calls Baltimore Police training facilities ‘completely inadequate,’ says they may hinder use-of-force instruction

Carroll County Times 27 Oct 2021

U.S. District Court Judge James K. Bredar, overseeing the policing consent decree reached between Baltimore officials and the U.S ... Advertisement ... Advertisement. Advertisement ... Bredar likened the facility’s ventilation system to a “Rube Goldberg” setup, where several doors needed to be strategically left open to insure adequate air circulation ... ....

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Over 650 People Arrested in D.C. During Week of Indigenous-led Climate Action Calling on Biden ...

Resilience 27 Oct 2021

Share. Tweet. Print. As environmental advocates from across the United States converged in Washington, D.C. last week to take part in the five day “People vs ... Indigenous leadership in the fight against fossil fuels was forefront at the rallies ... on October 15, 2021 ... “Or unworkable, fanciful Rube Goldberg–contraptions like carbon capture and storage.” ... .

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‘The French Dispatch’ Is the Most Wes Anderson-y Wes Anderson Movie of All Time

Rollingstone 25 Oct 2021

They’ll tell you that Wes Anderson’s new movie, The French Dispatch, is . The charge sticks. This is a man who fell in love with The New Yorker in the 11th grade; who from U.C ... Nevertheless, The French Dispatch feels inevitable. But thankfully not in the obvious ways ... Better to let it play like a Rube Goldberg machine ... ....

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BOOK REVIEW: A fine mystery with a little humor on the side

The Citizens 23 Oct 2021

The answers were easy ... The thing is, it’s murder done out in the open, often with witnesses, but author Helene Tursten’s main character is crafty; with Rube-Goldberg-esque contraptions and contrivances, there’s a different method to Maud’s madness every time and she’s deliciously, curmudgeonly gleeful about literally getting away with murder ... +5 ... .

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Bill Caldwell: 'Mutt and Jeff" influence continues

The Joplin Globe 23 Oct 2021

Comic strip characters have often attained lives of their own as their popularity grew beyond the confines of a newspaper ... Their slapstick antics entertained readers for 75 years ... One of his co-workers at the time was Rube Goldberg, later famous for his improbable chain-reaction machines, who remembered Fisher as unflappable.A. Mutt debuts ... Mutt .”. A ... .

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Cocaine Hippos and Other News Which is Significantly Less Amusing (Y'know, Death Cult Shit) (Ferret)

Democratic Underground 23 Oct 2021

Lotta fun little stories this week about cocaine hippo personhood and zebra honeypots and such, and I bet having a funny animal news blog would be goddamn delightful ... So yeah, watching the Bannon in Cuffs Please Oh Please marble work its way slowly through the Rube Goldberg federal Justice bureaucracy has been a touch on the frustrating side ... .

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Bruce Springsteen’s 20 greatest guitar moments, ranked

Guitar.com 19 Oct 2021

READ MORE. The Beatles’ 20 greatest guitar moments, ranked ... 20 ... Did you know? ... From its simple yet entirely unforgettable second verse lead in – nothing more than a slide from F to G on the D string, popping in a closing F on the fifth fret of the G string – Thunder Road is a Rube Goldberg machine of a song, with each section serving a wider purpose ... 9.

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EDITORIAL: It's a small world after all

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 17 Oct 2021

The other day, we noticed a package of "cheap" bacon at $5.50. Gasoline at the local filling station was $2.89 a gallon. Car builders are waiting around for microchips to get in, pushing vehicle prices up ... But there are other reasons for inflation ... Fixing inflation might take a Rube Goldberg machine, and might be just as delicate ... March? September? ... .