The argument: To accept handouts is to feel indebted, and doctors indebted to drug firms may not be prescribing medicines based solely on what’s best for their patients.

The use of nicotine substitutes (nicotine gum, patches or inhalers) during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy slightly increases the risk of birth defects, according to a large study of pregnant women and their offspring.

Here’s a photo showing the Space Shuttle at the exact moment a sonic boom occured.  Very cool.

No up-or-down vote necessary: Everyone from persons of interest to first-time callers will agree that 2005 offered more than its share of irritating words and phrases.

There’s a new wiki that’s tracking which of the Fortune 500 have public blogs. So far it appears that less than 20 of them are doing so, and their average share performance badly lags the rest of the F500. Why?