A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- Did Shakespeare have syphilis?
- Poverty in 1960s Appalachia.
- Twitter can help track diseases.
- Identity of famous 19th-century brain discovered.
- FDR didn’t have polio!?
- Those wacky Brits and their hanky etiquette films.
- Need an emergency condom? There’s an app for that.
- Pregnancy tests throughout history.
- That one time when Alice Cooper wrote to Ann Landers (about necrophilia).
- WWI Christmas truce football matches to be replayed.
- Screen make-up for silent films may surprise you.
- The problem with genetics, crime, and identical twins.
- Anthropologists seek answers from the grave at infamous home for wayward boys.