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.