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

• The history of the condom.
• Use these old slang terms to impress your friends.
• Mascara used to be a lot more complicated.
• The stereotype that we wish would go away: Hollywood and the Helpless Husband.
• The treadmill prison.
• North Korean women can now ride bicycles.
• That time when Denver almost exploded.
• Should Autism keep a man from getting a heat transplant?
• Athleticism and male affection.
• Frank Zappa’s PSA for the American Dental Association.
• Analyzing the Nazi mind.
• Hunting down the truth behind a decapitation urban legend.
• The rise of the stay-at-home dad.
• Scenes from the 1908 Olympic marathon offer a glimpse of early-20th century London.
• Who can beat Nixon? A real board game from the 1970s.
• The U.S. finally begins its Agent Orange clean-up in Vietnam.
• Grandfather’s diary reveals clues to his last days in WWI.
• The penises of the Icelandic handball team immortalized.