A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- How lobster got fancy.
- The man who invented relaxation.
- The mystery of the miniature coffins.
- The many lives of Rasputin’s daughter.
- Dr. Spock and the History of Sexuality.
- The first aid movement of the 19th century.
- Nobody wants Margaret Thatcher’s clothes.
- What beards say about Renaissance masculinity.
- The tangled cultural roots of Dungeons & Dragons.
- 15 million pages of medical history are going online.
- The unmanly art of breastfeeding in the 18th century.
- The story of D.C.’s short-lived lesbian separatist collective.
- Can you raise your testosterone levels by acting aggressive?
- Dr. Heimlich’s long battle with the Red Cross over his famous maneuver.