Finally, a Democratic sex scandal! Matthew Barrett shows porn to students. (Mr Angry)

Aussie scientists make diabetes breakthrough. The cause of type-2 diabetes has been found. (ABC News)

US adds 100,000 jobs in August. Good economic news from the States for once. (AFP)

China blocking RSS feeds. Unsurprising given the level of internet censorship. (Techcrunch)

Cities are key to greentech progress. Local authorities in the US are proving to be catalysts for the cleantech industry. (Earth2Tech)

Bush says US ‘does not do torture’. That’s not what the New York Times says. (AP)

US army is embedding anthropologists. The programme “enlists the help of cultural anthropologists to help tackle the tricky cultural nuances the military is confronting in Iraq and Afghanistan”. (Anthropology.net)

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