A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news

• 7 lost American slang words.
• A short history of the stethoscope.
• Disneyland’s wonderful wizard of bras.
• Will I be a dope doctor when I grow up?
• Should we teach music history backwards?
• Teaching medieval sexuality through puns.
• Oakland’s first all-black, all-Harley biker club.
• The history of America’s hard-working hoboes.
• Medievalist schools sex columnist, Dan Savage.
• At the first rock festival, pianos fell from the sky.
• The WWII kids who raced bicycles on bomb sites.
• Did the FBI fake an entire field of forensic science?
• Discovered: long-lost silent film with Native American cast.
• Survivors of the 1980s AIDS crisis reveal what happened to them.
• The American who saved 250,000 people from the Armenian genocide.

Feature Image courtesy of Wellcome Library, London: Group of nurses seated before a tent at the Portland Hospital during the Boer War., c.1900.