A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- How braille was invented.
- Intersex women speak out.
- Lead poisoning and great art.
- When did Mormons become straight?
- An advent calendar of quack medicine.
- How will historians study video games?
- A brief medical history of the cranberry.
- A British teacher’s archive of confiscated toys.
- Awesome vintage Tokyo subway manners posters.
- Thanksgiving history according to Rush Limbaugh.
- Controversial new photo archive of displaced Palestinians.
- Playboy at 60: A look back at the magazine’s most iconic covers.
- The weird European history of sewing animals together and then eating them.