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

• A short history of unusual sex practices.
• The long, strange journey of Eva Peron’s body.
• Visual depictions of Sherlock Holmes throughout history.
• Live pigeon shooting and other now defunct Olympic events.
• A female condom fashion show.
• A history of optical toys.
• An anti-polygamy Mormon in the early-20th century argues against “wasted seed and spent men.”
• The fascinating history of Girl Scout Cookies.
• A collection of vintage and bizarre beauty products.
• Women and college campus safety.
• Plastic surgery and the perfect vagina.
• FBI files of famous people.
• Can humanities help women out of poverty?
• The pregnant Olympian.
• Why the US Olympic team never dips its flag for the host country.
• Depressed? Turn off the TV (according to a new study).
• What is the “Nocebo Effect?”
• The weird and contentious history of an ugly and sexist statue in New York.
• For all you Anglophiles out there: a picture of Winston Churchill . . . in a bathing suit.