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.