Weekly News Roundup: Let There Be Stem Cell Trials!

• And we're a go, people: Get ready for the world's first study on human embryonic stem cell therapy. • But first, bye bye absurd abortion laws! • The Inauguration killed the Internets! No mere series of tubes can withstand the pressure of this seminal moment in history. • "BarackBerry," "ObamaBerry"—call it what you will, we still can't get over the fact that he's the first president ever to use e-mail while in office. • An economist explains why all those hospital procedures cost what they do. • The trees are dying! The trees are dying! • OMG! We're in the White House! Blogging, presidential style. • No, Virginia, there's no such thing as truly clean coal.