A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- Astronauts kept safe by bra designers?
- 1930s public health film on bathing and dressing children.
- ‘Mother’s Little Helper’ turns 50.
- 1970s pictorial on teen pregnancy.
- Study reveals new health benefit of antidepressants.
- Stalin and Churchill – drinking buddies?
- Race, intelligence, and genetics for dummies.
- Disability history in pictures.
- 15 very strange vintage advertisements.
- 3-D printer saves dying baby.
- First American anti-Nazi film rediscovered.
- Irish potato famine pathogen identified.
- Cicada panic – 1860s style.
- Newly found Pearl Buck novel to be published.
- Where exactly did those old-timey doctors get all that mercury?
- The world’s first menstrual poetry slam (it’s about time).