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

• Strangest modern-day menstruation myths.
• Is neuroscience helping vegetative patients communicate with their doctors? 
• The history behing the father of the modern cigarette.
• Eugenics and Nikola Tesla.
• How not to run a secure archive.
• Recording of Lee Atwater’s infamous 1981 interview released for the first time.
• Is your illness named after a Nazi?
• What would Darwin say about schizophrenia?
• Construction site in Virginia offers a look into Civil War past.
• Georgia immigration law causing chaos for doctors and nurses.
• The unusual story behind  the oldest living trees in the world.
• Ellis Island in the 1950s.
• One Chinese man’s brave quest to document China’s Great Famine.
• The ethics of everyday enhancements.
• WWII love letters found on beach after Hurricane Sandy.
• Neuroscience reveals common connections between jazz and rap musicians.