A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.
- Growing a 16th-century medicinal garden.
- Do you buy generic medicine?
- 10 annoying habits of hearing people.
- Illness narratives in the 18th century.
- What about the Founding Mothers?
- American presidents and infectious diseases.
- Ben Franklin and the nation’s first hospital.
- Can you answer these 10 questions from the U.S. citizenship test?
- Feminist, lawyer, and Civil Rights activist, Pauli Murray named an Episcopal saint.
- Do trans athletes have an unfair advantage?
- What will the next generation of condoms look (and feel) like?
- Can we break the 120-year barrier in aging (and should we?)
- The weird new world of girl cheese.
- The history of the wedding cake.
- Why your supermarket only sells 5 varieties of apples: A history lesson.