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

• Black neighborhoods in Elizabethan London 
• France’s Belle Epoch leaves traces of radium all over Paris.
• Is it easier to be a pregnant CEO or a pregnant maid? (hint: the answer is obvious.)
• Whooping Cough makes a strong and scary comeback.
• Have we found the remains of Mona Lisa?
• Paris apartment untouched for 70 years – reveals amazing finds.
• Vegetarians in the French Revolution?
• The problem of free doughnuts in WWII.
• The mundane and beautiful pictures of Jim Crow America.
• What ever happened to those happy trees painted by Bob Ross?
• What is the worst book of history? The votes are in. . . 
• The medical risks of early C-sections.
• In the Disturbing Study of the Week: Six-year-old girls  want to be sexy?
• You’re pretty! (For a dark-skinned girl).
• Woman who had double mastectomy fights to swim bare chested.