A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- 1950s version of voicemail.
- A new era in intersex rights.
- 10 strange ways Tudors died.
- Anxious youth, then and now.
- 1964 predictions on life in 2014.
- Princess hats and warrior women.
- 15 hangover cures brought to you by history.
- Is prison food cruel and unusual punishment?
- The delightfully illustrated story of Albert Einstein.
- Attention world: Marilyn Monroe was not a size 12.
- What to expect when you’re expecting (100 years ago).
- Drunk driving and the pre-history of the breathalyzer.
- The really interesting history of female crash-test dummies.
- How far you could travel from NYC in a day (1800-present).
- A comparison of how physicians and non-physicians want to die.
- Conservative groups call Library of Congress project “hard-core porn.”