A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.

• Robots can fix your lady parts.
• Would you like to buy Hemingway’s racist telegrams?
• Was Jane Austin the first game theorist?
• Newly revealed letters give insight into a young J.D. Salinger.
• How coffee changed the course of history.
• Judging Hollywood’s best figure circa 1931. 
• Historical reflections on palliative medicine.
• VD as the “Mad Dog” of disease.
• Did Charles Darwin hold the key to a happy marriage?
• 19th-century India in pictures.
• Sexy Candyland?
• Effects of desegregation bussing battles still linger in Boston.
• Old newspapers shed new light on Emmitt Till murder.
• Want to live in an old insane asylum? (Perhaps the coolest example of mixed-use historic preservation ever!)