http://news.yahoo.com/rss-pfeiffer/ en-US Copyright (c) 2013 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved Tue, 21 May 2013 15:40:50 -0400 5 http://news.yahoo.com/rss-pfeiffer/ http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif Call it food for thought. Or perhaps thought for food: NASA has given a six-month grant to a company developing what could be the world’s first 3-D food printer. And the project’s developer, reports Quartz, an online digital news site, believes the invention could be used to end world hunger. Quartz explains that the printer [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/nasa-awards-grant-3d-food-printer-could-end-194050661.htmlTue, 21 May 2013 15:40:50 -0400blogs/sideshow/nasa-awards-grant-3d-food-printer-could-end-194050661So-called “pedal pubs” are popping up in more than two-dozen cities across the country. And in some of those places, riders can sip on an alcoholic beverage while sitting across a bar from fellow cyclists. What exactly is a pedal pub? USA Today reports they are sort of like a modern day trolley meets the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/pedal-pubs-catching-able-imbibe-ride-010550509.htmlMon, 20 May 2013 21:05:50 -0400blogs/sideshow/pedal-pubs-catching-able-imbibe-ride-010550509The Classical Fast Draw Society is home to a select number of expert marksmen. But their most remarkable member is not technically their most accurate. Jim Miekka only hits about 80 percent of his targets, firing shots at just half a second apart. But the truly incredible thing about Miekka is that he’s totally blind. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/blind-gunslinger-hits-more-80-percent-targets-211129297.htmlMon, 20 May 2013 17:11:29 -0400blogs/sideshow/blind-gunslinger-hits-more-80-percent-targets-211129297Brad Josephs was on the Alaskan peninsula shooting video for a new BBC special when a grizzly bear decided to start chewing on his camera. Luckily for Josephs, he wasn’t holding the camera at the time. Instead, he had planted his GoPro in order to some close-up shots of the bears to use in the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/grizzly-bear-puts-camera-inside-mouth-video-003655773.htmlFri, 17 May 2013 20:36:55 -0400blogs/sideshow/grizzly-bear-puts-camera-inside-mouth-video-003655773“A while ago, in a litter box not close at all….” If you love Star Wars, or at least love cats, you’ll enjoy this video. And if you enjoy them both, well, happy Friday. This new video from The Pet Collective is a re-imagining of the Death Star trench run from the first Star Wars [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/paw-warz-force-strong-kittens-215032536.htmlFri, 17 May 2013 17:50:32 -0400blogs/sideshow/paw-warz-force-strong-kittens-215032536A viral video that was first posted on Mother’s Day shows two men undergoing a simulation meant to mimic the pain experienced by women in childbirth. “It feels like someone is taking a saw and just carving up my abdomen,” one of the men says while writhing as electrodes attached to his midsection send a [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/feel-pain-video-shows-men-using-labor-pain-181754841.htmlWed, 15 May 2013 14:17:54 -0400blogs/sideshow/feel-pain-video-shows-men-using-labor-pain-181754841How cool would it be to roll up to your high-school prom in a fire truck? Well, it would probably be less cool for your Dad if he let you be chauffeured without getting permission first. A Pennsylvania fire chief is coming under fire after it was revealed he allowed his son to ride in [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/fire-chief-feels-heat-escorting-son-school-prom-001930867.htmlWed, 15 May 2013 05:19:00 -0400blogs/sideshow/fire-chief-feels-heat-escorting-son-school-prom-001930867On Sunday, it was 32 degrees in Omaha, Nebraska. On Tuesday, it was 100 degrees. In an incredible meteorlogical shift, the state experienced both its record low and record high temperatures in less than 72 hours. The Omaha World-Herald reports that May 14 is the earliest day on record that the temperature in Omaha has [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/omaha-experiences-record-low-high-temperatures-less-72-021618847.htmlTue, 14 May 2013 22:16:18 -0400blogs/sideshow/omaha-experiences-record-low-high-temperatures-less-72-021618847Trevor Runyon spent the night alone inside a Kentucky grocery store and will likely be spending several more nights in jail. That’s because Runyon allegedly went on a feeding frenzy, eating six steaks, drinking beer, smoking cigarettes and finishing the night off with some shrimp and a birthday cake. Video surveillance shows the 30-year-old Runyon [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/kentucky-man-wild-night-alone-grocery-store-211839042.htmlTue, 14 May 2013 17:18:39 -0400blogs/sideshow/kentucky-man-wild-night-alone-grocery-store-211839042Ruth Levy has been sending greeting cards to her 90-year-old friend Dick for decades. The tech-savvy Levy, 77 years old and a fan of e-cards, was shocked to be told that a personalized card she made for Dick was considered profane. "When it came up with, 'Your message cannot contain profanity,' I didn’t get it. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/call-him-richard-greeting-card-company-refuses-man-184704019.htmlTue, 14 May 2013 14:47:04 -0400blogs/sideshow/call-him-richard-greeting-card-company-refuses-man-184704019On Friday, workers completed the installation of the spire atop the One World Trade Center building, a symbolic step toward completing the building that has taken more than 10 years to complete. The 1,776 foot peak of the building was covered by media across the globe. But the iron workers involved in the spire’s installation [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/bird-eye-view-video-shows-installation-one-world-013520085.htmlMon, 13 May 2013 21:35:20 -0400blogs/sideshow/bird-eye-view-video-shows-installation-one-world-013520085The United Nations has some advice for the starving people of the world that might bug you. Eating insects might just be the future of food. A new report from the U.N. says that eating insects (high in protein, low in fat) can help fight global warming, pollutions, and yes, hunger. And if the suggestion [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/u-n-encourages-people-eat-more-insects-004159870.htmlMon, 13 May 2013 20:41:59 -0400blogs/sideshow/u-n-encourages-people-eat-more-insects-004159870A new study has demonstrated that plants can use an underground network of fungi to warn each other about incoming insect attacks. Carried out by researchers from the University of Aberdeen, the James Hutton Institute and Rothamsted Research, the study demonstrated that the plants are able to send warnings of incoming aphids to other plants [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/study-shows-plants-communicate-other-via-underground-fungi-211754050.htmlMon, 13 May 2013 17:17:54 -0400blogs/sideshow/study-shows-plants-communicate-other-via-underground-fungi-211754050Atlanta’s Cliff Kluge claims to have stumbled upon a 70-year-old copy of the official recipe for Coca-Cola, and he’s selling it on eBay for $5 million. "You don't stumble on things like this very often," Kluge told WXIA. "It's a letter, and a formula, and the processes to make it. I think it's a little [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/georgia-man-claims-found-copy-coca-cola-recipe-195641313.htmlMon, 13 May 2013 15:56:41 -0400blogs/sideshow/georgia-man-claims-found-copy-coca-cola-recipe-195641313The flying car has long tantalized the imaginations of people everywhere. And a recent successful test flight by a Massachusetts company came with the promise that their prototype could go on sale to the public beginning sometime in 2014. But another company’s airborne vehicle had a much different experience on Friday, when their flying car [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/flying-car-crashes-outside-elementary-school-015247415.htmlFri, 10 May 2013 21:52:47 -0400blogs/sideshow/flying-car-crashes-outside-elementary-school-015247415"Star Wars Kid" was one of the first breakthrough Internet memes. But whatever became of the kid parodied by millions as he clumsily swung his imaginary lightsaber with reckless abandon? He recently spoke out publicly for the first time, sharing his thoughts on being arguably the first large-scale victim of cyberbullying. “What I saw was [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/10-years-later-star-wars-kid-speaks-231310357.htmlFri, 10 May 2013 19:13:10 -0400blogs/sideshow/10-years-later-star-wars-kid-speaks-231310357Click image to see more photos. (Photo courtesy maryannerussell.com) On March 11 2005, Kevin Berthia wanted to take his life. He had climbed over the railing of the Golden Gate Bridge and was prepared to take a fatal jump into the San Francisco Bay when he heard a voice calling out to him from above. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/years-later-cop-reunites-suicidal-man-saved-golden-171522199.htmlFri, 10 May 2013 13:15:22 -0400blogs/lookout/years-later-cop-reunites-suicidal-man-saved-golden-171522199Americans really, really trust Hollywood. They are, however, far more skeptical of Washington, D.C. A new survey on the most trusted people in America finds actors taking the top three spots: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock and Denzel Washington. The first politician to appear on the list is former President Jimmy Carter, who comes in at [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/jimmy-carter-named-most-trusted-politician-u-poll-221631253.htmlThu, 09 May 2013 18:16:31 -0400blogs/lookout/jimmy-carter-named-most-trusted-politician-u-poll-221631253You say “tomato”, I say, “illegal pot farm on a Brooklyn rooftop.” A resident in a Brooklyn apartment building got an unexpected, and unmerited, visit from the police after his superintendent called the cops to report an illegal pot-growing operation on the building’s roof. There was just one small problem―the plants growing on the building’s [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/cops-mistake-man-tomato-garden-marijuana-farm-212113442.htmlThu, 09 May 2013 17:21:13 -0400blogs/sideshow/cops-mistake-man-tomato-garden-marijuana-farm-212113442Kayla Wheeler was born with three congenital amputations: missing both legs and one arm. Her doctor recommended swimming as a form of physical therapy. And now, at age 16, Wheeler is literally breaking world records. Washington CNN affiliate KCPQ reports that Wheeler already has competed in Brazil, Mexico and the Netherlands and has her sights [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/16-old-girl-born-without-legs-one-arm-190717160.htmlThu, 09 May 2013 15:07:17 -0400blogs/sideshow/16-old-girl-born-without-legs-one-arm-190717160One man, using only a spoon, has escaped from one of Russia’s most infamous prisons. Sky News reports that 33-year-old Oleg Topalov escaped from Matrosskaya Tishina, apparently by using a single spoon to dig a hole through his cell’s ceiling. He is only the fourth person in 20 years to escape from the prison. Russian [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-uses-spoon-break-russian-maximum-security-prison-012749515.htmlWed, 08 May 2013 21:27:49 -0400blogs/sideshow/man-uses-spoon-break-russian-maximum-security-prison-012749515If you think gun violence has reached a new high, you're far from alone. However, according to a new statistical survey, you’re also wrong. The study, published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, says that gun homicides have declined by a full 49 percent since their peak in 1993. There has been an even steeper [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/gun-deaths-u-dropped-nearly-50-percent-over-211424998.htmlWed, 08 May 2013 17:14:24 -0400blogs/lookout/gun-deaths-u-dropped-nearly-50-percent-over-211424998Was his tweet a bullying act, or merely the stating of a fact? Either way, reports the Wichita Eagle, the senior class president of Heights High School in Kansas has been suspended and banned from participating in most of this year’s graduation activities after posting a tweet about the school’s athletic program. “‘Heights U’ is [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/senior-class-president-suspended-tweet-high-school-sports-191809892.htmlWed, 08 May 2013 15:18:09 -0400blogs/sideshow/senior-class-president-suspended-tweet-high-school-sports-191809892A 12-week-old puppy has miraculously overcome a harrowing ordeal and survived being locked inside an impounded car for nearly a month. The Kansas City, Mo., animal shelter now caring for the terrier and schnauzer mix they’ve named Kia said she survived by eating trash left in the car from a McDonald’s restaurant. However, she apparently [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/puppy-survives-being-locked-car-nearly-month-164633363.htmlWed, 08 May 2013 12:46:33 -0400blogs/sideshow/puppy-survives-being-locked-car-nearly-month-164633363Five mountain climbers were killed and eight either others injured when a sudden volcanic eruption in the Philippines sent down rocks “big as cars.” “I heard a sound similar to a sudden drop of coconuts. Then I heard noise of cascading rocks. But the thick fog clouding us that time blinded us from seeing the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/dozens-climbers-caught-middle-deadly-volcanic-eruption-021125773.htmlTue, 07 May 2013 22:11:25 -0400blogs/lookout/dozens-climbers-caught-middle-deadly-volcanic-eruption-021125773The name Ray Harryhausen probably isn’t familiar to the average moviegoer, but fans of today’s science fiction and fantasy films owe a debt to the legendary effects wizard, who died Tuesday at the age of 92. For decades, Harryhausen was Hollywood’s premiere stop motion effects artist, building models that would seemingly interact with actors on [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/stop-motion-effects-pioneer-ray-harryhausen-dies-92-195508499.htmlTue, 07 May 2013 15:55:08 -0400blogs/sideshow/stop-motion-effects-pioneer-ray-harryhausen-dies-92-195508499Rarely seen footage of the Hindenburg airship's tragic end, posted by the Public Domain Review, is an amazingly intimate look at a 76-year-old disaster. While the exact cause of the airship’s fiery demise is still debated, the video—which also includes historical newsreel coverage of the Hindenburg on safely executed flights—is a moving look at the [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/footage-shows-hindenburg-disaster-stunning-detail-185542411.htmlMon, 06 May 2013 14:55:42 -0400blogs/sideshow/footage-shows-hindenburg-disaster-stunning-detail-185542411Don Castner was already in danger of arousing the suspicions of the fashion police. But the 39-year-old Floridian got a taste of delicious irony when he was arrested Wednesday by the actual police while wearing a T-shirt that read, “jail sucks!” The Smoking Gun reports that Castner was arrested on charges of welfare fraud as [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-wearing-jail-sucks-t-shirt-arrested-sent-192117873.htmlFri, 03 May 2013 15:21:17 -0400blogs/sideshow/man-wearing-jail-sucks-t-shirt-arrested-sent-192117873The crazy man walking down the city street holding a sign that reads “The end is near” might just have a point. A team of mathematicians, philosophers and scientists at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute say there is ever-increasing evidence that the human race’s reliance on technology could, in fact, lead to its demise. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/end-team-experts-says-humanity-faces-extinction-233025693.htmlThu, 02 May 2013 19:30:25 -0400blogs/sideshow/end-team-experts-says-humanity-faces-extinction-233025693New York City has made international headlines with its efforts to curb obesity through proposals such as an attempted ban on large soda drinks. And the city has launched another effort that's also been enacted by several other U.S. cities, a bike-share program. But if you’re hoping to peddle away the pounds, there’s one catch: [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/overweight-riders-banned-nyc-bike-share-program-221002948.htmlThu, 02 May 2013 18:10:02 -0400blogs/sideshow/overweight-riders-banned-nyc-bike-share-program-221002948It was like something out of a Ducks Unlimited member’s dreams: A 54-foot-tall rubber duck sailed into a Hong Kong harbor on Thursday. Hundreds gathered at Victoria Harbour to cheer the arrival of the duck, which was designed by Dutch artist Flortentijn Hofman. The enormous duckling was built in 2007 and has since traveled to [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/50-foot-rubber-duck-sails-hong-kong-harbor-190949396.htmlThu, 02 May 2013 15:09:49 -0400blogs/sideshow/50-foot-rubber-duck-sails-hong-kong-harbor-190949396Here’s a scoop: Don’t try selling your push-up pops on Joshua Malatino’s corner. The owner of the Sno Cone Joe franchise reportedly stalked a Mr. Ding-a-Ling ice cream vendor, telling the man, “You don’t have a chance! This is my town!” The Gloversville, N.Y., police arrested Malatino after they spotted him tailgating the rival driver. [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/own-town-ice-cream-man-reportedly-threatens-rival-211316221.htmlWed, 01 May 2013 17:13:16 -0400blogs/sideshow/own-town-ice-cream-man-reportedly-threatens-rival-211316221It appears that freedom fries have liberated the French from their historically good taste. The French, who have long held high culinary standards, aren’t afraid to flaunt their commitment to quality. But even the world’s first foodies have their limits, if a new study is to be believed. That’s because new data says the French [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/fast-food-overtaken-french-marketplace-195222420.htmlWed, 01 May 2013 15:52:22 -0400blogs/sideshow/fast-food-overtaken-french-marketplace-195222420For most people, a Florida crab festival brings to mind a mellow time with ample beverages to wash down the abundance of crustacean culinary delights. But one Florida crab fest was anything but after five people were shot, including one man who later died. And as the Sun-Sentinel reports, shooting or not, the event isn’t [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/five-shot-florida-city-crab-festival-wait-catch-020543296.htmlTue, 30 Apr 2013 22:05:43 -0400blogs/sideshow/five-shot-florida-city-crab-festival-wait-catch-020543296Police are trying to figure out exactly how to handle one man’s truly wasteful collection after 300 gallons of bottled urine were discovered inside a residential home. According to the News-Times, Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) spokesman Dennis Schain said authorities found “200 to 300 one-gallon plastic jugs filled with human urine" [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/300-gallons-urine-found-inside-man-home-224127138.htmlTue, 30 Apr 2013 18:41:27 -0400blogs/sideshow/300-gallons-urine-found-inside-man-home-224127138Until a decade ago, no one knew if Heracleion, believed to be an ancient harbor city, was fiction or real. Now, reports the Telegraph, the researchers who found it—150 feet beneath the surface of Egypt's Bay of Aboukir—are sharing some of the amazing historical artifacts preserved there. The finds include 64 ships, 16-foot-tall statues, 700 [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/ancient-sunken-egyptian-city-reveals-1-200-old-201729650.htmlTue, 30 Apr 2013 16:17:29 -0400blogs/sideshow/ancient-sunken-egyptian-city-reveals-1-200-old-201729650“Not recommended.” When it comes to a firsthand prison review, do you really need to know anything other than that? Believe it or not, that was the actual review from a Yelp user named “Ticha B.,” who reviewed California’s San Quentin State Prison. And for the record, she gave it only one star. And as [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/inmates-posting-reviews-prisons-yelp-212951533.htmlMon, 29 Apr 2013 17:29:51 -0400blogs/sideshow/inmates-posting-reviews-prisons-yelp-212951533Sure, cats aren’t for everyone. But we can’t remember the last time someone called the police to complain about a pair of kittens. But that’s exactly what happened in Wisconsin on Thursday when a woman called police after she reportedly witnessed two kittens “having sex” in her front yard. As ridiculous as that sounds, it’s [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/police-called-woman-sees-kittens-having-sex-her-235413733.htmlFri, 26 Apr 2013 19:54:13 -0400blogs/sideshow/police-called-woman-sees-kittens-having-sex-her-235413733A fossilized egg belonging to the largest known species of bird in history sold at an auction this week for $101,813. The elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus) egg was sold as part of Christie’s “Travel, Science and Natural History” collection. The elephant bird went extinct sometime in the 17th or 18th century. It grew to 10 [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/fossilized-bird-egg-sells-auction-more-100-000-212736083.htmlFri, 26 Apr 2013 17:27:36 -0400blogs/sideshow/fossilized-bird-egg-sells-auction-more-100-000-212736083NASA’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) has been taking a picture of the Sun every 12 seconds for the past three years from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). And now, they have released a time-lapse video showing all of those pictures compiled into one 3-minute clip. “In the three years since it first provided images of [...]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/nasa-video-shows-3-years-sun-activity-3-003654420.htmlThu, 25 Apr 2013 20:36:54 -0400blogs/sideshow/nasa-video-shows-3-years-sun-activity-3-003654420