A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- 80 years of Fergusons.
- Victorian England’s singing pig.
- Queen Victoria’s secret sex castle.
- Why nighttime air used to be scary.
- How to donate your body to science.
- When flight attendants were nurses.
- The yellow star and the pink triangle.
- A history of pop music and public health.
- Did medieval hospitals have better food?
- When patients read what their doctors write.
- Tumbleweeds are actually Russian invaders.
- Smithsonian accepts original trans pride flag.
- A brief history of the phrase, “f*ck the police.”
- Color photos of the interior of the Hindenburg.
- The 46-year-old sex toy Hitachi won’t talk about.
- 14 famous folks who survived the 1918 flu epidemic.
- Historical antecedents to experimental Ebola treatments.
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This caught my eye.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/18/mothers-names-marriage-registers-david-cameron
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