A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- Hippies worshipped Satan, smelled bad (according to voucher schools in Louisiana).
- Little House, alcohol, and gendered respectability.
- The immortal, shattered cells of Henrietta Lacks.
- Epidemiologist’s advice: Be afraid of your food.
- It’s been 45 years since the My Lai massacre.
- Construction crew unearths Black Plague victims.
- The return of the Cossacks in Russia.
- A better Plan B.
- Miscarriage in Early Modern England.
- Grad student finds new work by first published African-American poet.
- A brief history of the pacifier and other baby basics.
- Flaws found in ovarian cancer treatments.
- Bee venom kills HIV?
- Dengue Fever now endemic in Florida.
- “If We Must Die”