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.