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

• Men looking for cat, find catacomb instead.
• 10 historical (and awesome) facts about the Girl Scouts.
• Now boys are hitting puberty earlier too.
• Richard Burton’s very sexy diaries (and yes, a lot of it is about Liz).
• Very, very, very old socks.
• “Lilly of the Mohawks” officially becomes a Saint.
• Surprising new finds about the teenage brain.
• The Victorians and their Pleasure Gardens.
• The recent misogyny uproar in Australia prompts a dictionary change (See here to read Nursing Clio’s take).
• Rising concerns over the use of neuroscience in the courtroom.
• Mysterious kidney disease in Central America.
• New study ties happiness to longevity.
• How the U.S. eradicated Polio.
• The University of Michigan repatriates more than 120 Native American remains.
• Can hearing voices be normal?
• One parent’s story of schizophrenia and the problems with “reform.”