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.