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…
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[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))
I've just finished Owen Gingerich's *The Book Nobody Read*, a history of [Copernicus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus)' *[De revolutionibus orbium coelestium](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_revolutionibus_orbium_coelestium)*. *De revolutionibus* is a very important book, but it was once…
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…
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…
Dean Baker makes an [excellent point about a lot of rhetoric in free trade discussions](http://www.prospect.org/deanbaker/2007/01/what_is_wrong_with_trade_in_do.html): > It is positively bizarre how discussions of trade liberalization always ignore the…