Marshall Brain, educator and founder of the popular edutainment company HowStuffWorks, died last week at the age of 63. Born in California, Brain moved to Raleigh in the 1980s to complete a master’s ...

At 4:30 a.m. Nov. 20, Marshall Brain II, founder of the popular HowStuffWorks website and longtime director of North Carolina State University’s Engineering Entrepreneurs Program, sent an email to ...

Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” is a contributor to WRAL TechWire. Brain takes a serious as well as entertaining look at a ...

Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” is a contributor to WRAL TechWire, taking a serious as well as entertaining world of ...

In context: Marshal Brain created the HowStuffWorks website as a hobby in 1998. To his surprise, the site became a go-to for the layman wanting to understand complex processes and systems in ...

Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023 -- "The American Experiment" has worked pretty well for over 200 years. But what if the experiment were to fail? What if the democratic system driving the experiment were to ...

Brain shows viewers how products are designed, tested, and manufactured. "We use this stuff every day and some of it's so interesting. Like the science underneath it, and how people use that science ...

The sad truth is a lot of university politics is a dark place with a fair amount of being opaque and seemingly excessive cronyism and etc. My own theory is that there was a time when schools were ...