A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- American Academy of Pediatrics supports same-sex marriage.
- A new film documents Black Power and Feminism.
- The British women who voted before it was legal.
- Guitar production continued during WWII – thanks to women.
- Newly-found Oscar Wilde letter.
- One step closer to 3-person IVF.
- America’s forgotten black cowboys.
- Greta Garbo’s really disgusting diet plan.
- Obesity in 1950s America – A Life magazine pictorial.
- The unluckiest little mining town in the West?
- Kenya pulls controversial condom ad.
- Bioethics panel has a huge issue with testing Anthrax vaccine on children.
- North Carolina’s claim, “First in Flight,” is now in doubt.
- 1950s Guidelines for judging beauty contestants (including charts!).
- New online project for marking slave burial sites.
- And . . . just for fun!