A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- Curdled breast milk.
- A brief history of funeral invitations.
- The cure for vapours.
- Building a cyborg, circa 1920s.
- Hair stockings to ward off “perverts”?
- Is there a scientific reason for oral sex?
- The incredible, disappearing evangelist.
- Fertility decline for women in their 30s a myth?
- The long, slow history of breaking medicine’s color barrier.
- Parenting advice about masturbation: a short history.
- The unexpected consequences of whooping cough outbreaks.
- It was not easy to be an Elizabethan child actor.
- Can hunter-gatherers tell us something about modern obesity?
- The cool history of Napoleon’s semaphore telegraph.
- How to discover an antibiotic: A historian’s guide.
- See Mickey Mouse join the army and die in Vietnam.