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

• Typhoid Mary mystery solved at last?
• The Stockholm Syndrome turns 40.
• Nursery of the future (circa 1930s).
• The rise of the sex manual.
• 19th-century men who killed their children.
• Prehistoric humans also hated bland food.
• Archivists work to preserve gay home movies.
• A midcentury map of American folklore.
• 1885 map shows illegal activity in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
• 1950s film instructs Americans how to dial a phone.
• Breaking Bad and Modern Japanese History.
• 20 historic photographs, beautifully colorized.
• Study finds no link between mental illness and hallucinogens.
• Remember when your mother told you to eat your carrots to improve your eyesight? 
• Finally, the coolest dorm room of 1967 and the grooviest dorm room of 1973.