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

• Stethoscopes are really gross.
• The woman before Rosa Parks.
• The history of heroin addiction.
• Did slavery create modern medicine?
• Um…your earwax says a lot about you.
• Remembering Japan’s kamikaze pilots.
• 9 Oscar nominated films we’ve lost to history.
• Old-timey porn: 19th century pocket watches (NSFW).
• The most beautiful LGBTQ love letters in history.
• The weird history of Cosmo‘s most famous sex tip.
• Just in time for the Oscars: Cotton Mather film reviews.
• Micronesians seek justice on the 60th anniversary of nuclear bomb tests.
• Women and their motorcycles: 32 badass vintage photographs.
• What do those cherubs really mean? A guide to Victorian architecture.