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Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Amazon's Jeff Bezos

Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Amazon’s Jeff Bezos:  Amazon founder and Washington Post purchaser Jeff Bezos was reportedly shepherded between islands in the Galapagos by the Ecuadorian navy so he could pass a kidney stone on New Year's Day.  Yet another reason to sign up for Amazon Prime.  Apparently when they are called to duty, the Ecuadorian navy leaves no kidney stone unturned.

Pay for TGI Friday's Dinner With Smartphone App:  TGI Friday's announced that customers can now pay their checks by using a downloadable app on their iPhone or Android smartphones.  Call me old-fashioned, but I still prefer to pay for bad food by writing a bad check. 

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Smithsonian Description of Jellyfish:  The a recent issue of Smithsonian Magazine claims that jellyfish are essentially a boneless, spineless, bloodless and brainless species whose mouth also doubles as their anus.  Wow!  Now I have no idea what the Smithsonian has against jellyfish, but this is the kind of name calling one would expect from a hate group, not a respected scientific institution.

Hidden Camera Captures Florida Man Have Sex With Dog:  Police have arrested a Florida man after his suspicious roommate caught him having sex with his dog on a hidden camera.  The dog owner told police that when his roommate said he was in the Lab all day, he just assumed he was a scientist.  Legal experts say that as disgusting as this act is, it could very well fall under Florida’s new "stand your hound" laws.

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Sex Between Neanderthals and Humans:  A new DNA analyses indicates that Neanderthals may have passed on a DNA fragment, found in the human X chromosome to humans, indicating a strong likelihood that humans did in fact have sex with Neanderthals.  Scientists are hopeful that research such as this may one day provide an explanation as to what Maria Shriver ever saw in Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Scientists Searching Twitter for Time Travelers:  An astrophysicist at Michigan Technological University is attempting to determine if there are time travelers among us by using Twitter as a database, searching for terms that were both unique and of historical importance that time travelers may have used.  All I know about time travel is that there’s nothing worse than jumping ahead a few hundred years or so, only to realize all of your credit cards have expired.

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