Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics

I’ve always thought those beds with the TV built into the foot were not very well thought out (imagine the neck strain you’d get watching them…). [Here’s a better way to do the same thing](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/tag/uberbed-lift-stashes-your-tv-and-shame-233749.php).

[Scientists have created a sheep that is 15% human](http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444436&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=). ([Via](http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/26/2013236&threshold=4))

From a San Francisco Chronicle [story about a local political scandal](http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/01/BAGNCNT86S12.DTL): >That seemed to be the buzz on the streets of San Francisco, too. Tarri Chandler, who said she was homeless and was carrying a cardboard cup that read “Cold, very hungry, please help,” said she didn’t think it was much of a story. Bizarre!…

Great story about the benefits of “crowd-sourcing” [in places where you wouldn’t expect](http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/feb2007/id20070201_774736.htm). ([Via](http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/02/go_for_the_gold.html))

By golly, these [speakers made of water](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/modal-water-speaker-sure-is-purdy-233358.php) look so very pretty… Also expensive, I suspect.

[Should groundhogs be taken into account when predicting global warming?](http://www.reason.com/blog/show/118451.html).

[According to animal rights activists in Germany](http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/kill-this-cub-you-must-be-knuts/2007/03/21/1174153106086.html), it *is* a violation of a polar cubs’ rights to painstakingly care for it and raise it by hand after being rejected by its mother, but it *is not* a violation of its rights to let it die.