r/MarshallBrain

10K archived posts · Jul 2014 – Jun 2026

MarshallBrain - A place for people who love learning how everything works

r/MarshallBrain

The home base for Marshall Brain on Reddit.

Created Jul 5, 2014

1.6KMembers (last snapshot)

10KArchived posts

When I find something I enjoy, that impresses me, or that I want to remember, I drop a link here so I can find it again later on.

Here are some of the things I think are fun/cool/interesting:

How everything works
Entrepreneurship
Elon Musk's Mars Colony
Replacing Capitalism with a better system
Losing weight
Being better
Engineering
DIY
The future of humanity
Robots
Etc.

If you find fun/cool/interesting articles, web sites, Reddit posts, etc., feel free to add them here on r/MarshallBrain.

Quick bio: I am best known as the founder of HowStuffWorks.com. I also did a TV show on National Geographic called "Factory Floor with Marshall Brain." I have appeared on a lot of TV shows like CNN, Oprah, Good Morning America, Modern Marvels, etc. I teach entrepreneurship at NCSU. I enjoy writing and have written on or studied many different topics:

Some of my favorite subreddits:

You can find me on the Internet at these places:

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