A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Murder bottles.
- Life before antibiotics.
- Revolutionary-era trash.
- Was there a “World War Zero”?
- Creating cures in Early America.
- Did doctors really attend duals?
- The man who blamed aging on his intestines.
- The hidden messages of Colonial handwriting.
- An 800-year history of women making whiskey.
- An epidemic that you’ve probably never heard of.
- How the British defeated Napoleon with citrus fruit.
- Popeye, spinach, and iron: who debunks the debunkers?
- The Smithsonian has digitized its collection of old-timey cosmetics.
- Railway paradise: how a fine-dining empire made the Southwest palatable.