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

• The history of the fork is way more fascinating than you might think.
• The five most important places in history (according to one guy).
• Want to read Anne Frank’s Diary? There’s an app for that.
• Elderly are newest group to be plagued by eating disorders.
• The saddest letters you will ever read. Ever.
• Bioethicists raise concerns over personal genomes and privacy protections.
• Farmer finds Maya murals.
• Finally, an emo rock musical based on President Andrew Jackson!
• A new effort to digitize women’s history.
• New evidence sheds light on women’s work in the Bronze Age.
• Marie Curie, a sex scandal, and a duel.
• The beautifully macabre world of Mexican B-movie posters from the 1950s.
• We now know the exact spot where Julius Caesar was stabbed to death.
• Do we pick our friends based on genetic similarities?
• The US military tried pretty hard to build flying saucers in the 1950s.
• A new type of font to help dyslexics. 
• When premature babies were sideshows.