* Big Cable says broadband investment is flourishing, but their own data says it’s falling. It will no doubt come as a shock to discover that Comcast and Time Warner are lying.
* “Tina Belcher’s Sexual Revolution,” which sounds stupid but isn’t.
* “Zac Efron Bros Down To Grow Up: Our teen idols are ‘all heart, no libido’ — so what happens when they grow up? Ricky Nelson, Rock Hudson, Zac Efron, and the impossible contradictions of masculinity,” which also sounds stupid but isn’t, primarily because it’s actually about the history of Hollywood.
* “University of Washington researchers: Polar ice sheet doomed, but how soon?”
* “Why Comcast and other cable ISPs aren’t selling you gigabit Internet.”
* Clarissa: “I Don’t Want to Hire Women,” which is an interesting companion to “It’s Different for Girls.”
* “Are the French Better at Sex?” Usually I would say no. I am surprised none of Maïa Mazaurette’s work has been translated and published in English.
* Everything You Know About Fitness Is a Lie. Short version: use heavy barbells and focus on free weights.
* “What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure?”
* The remarkable Neal Stephenson interview.
* “Check out the parking lot: Hell in LA.”
* “Kathryn Schulz on the Harmonious Contradictions of Geoff Dyer,” which makes me want to read Dyer.
* “Thank You for Being Expendable;” I think the painful truth is that men have always been expendable from a society’s perspective, per Roy Baumeister’s book about “How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men” (though I do not endorse everything or even the majority of the book), but no one tells soldiers that before they enlist, and no one tells them that modern American generals don’t get fired for incompetence.
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