A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- Successful and schizophrenic.
- Holocaust archive reunites families.
- The unexpectedly fascinating history of the stethoscope.
- The biggest poisoning in history.
- 16th century warfare apparently included cats . . .with bombs attached to their backs.
- America’s long and complicated history with guns.
- Is an antibiotic apocalypse imminent?
- We can now encode Shakespeare in DNA (How cool and weird is that?).
- Scientists tell us: Sex with condoms is pleasurable.
- Did the pro-life movement cause an increase in single moms?
- What did they do with all of the booze during Prohibition?
- London’s historic blue plaques are in danger.
- DNA study links Native Americans to Beijing.
- Nearly half of U.S. children are undervaccinated.
- In drinking news: Is “breaking the seal” a myth?
- UK garden stepping stone turns out to be an ancient Sri Lankan artifact.