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

• What age you begin menstruation may have future health implications.
• The not-so-happy history behind your Black Friday shopping tradition.
• Teenage boys and body image.
• The most awesome kitchen computer from 1969.
• 10 NYC street corners – then and now.
• Stalin’s daughter and the FBI.
• Beautiful headdress of Moctezuma caught in a custody battle.
• A handy dandy glossary of terms used to silence women.
• The last Confederate to lay down his arms.
• The age of Artificial Intelligence may finally be here.
• A new look at Einstein’s brain.
• An update to the WWII pigeon story.
• Budget cuts affecting pregnant teens.
• Gorgeous Hussies and Parlor Politics.
• 5 historical manias that swept entire towns.