News Round Up Sunday Morning Medicine By Jacqueline Antonovich • December 8, 2013 Sharing TwitterFacebook A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Chernobyl’s hot mess. Is sex really good exercise? How America learned to love whiskey. “Piss prophets” and the Wheel of Urine. Photos of Adolf Hitler’s Christmas party. The accidental birth of wrapping paper. Gene therapy helps “bubble boy” children. The first known aerial photo of Los Angeles. 12 odd headlines from vintage teen magazines. Impress your friends with Prohibition-era slang. Library of Congress reports 75% of silent films lost. “Having a Baby”: a 1942 homemade documentary. Spot the hidden mother in these Victorian photos. 8 aspiring black communities destroyed by white neighbors. Librarian recorded 800,000 hours of news broadcasts for 35 years.
