A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The CDC might want your semen.
- How posters helped shape America.
- Hungary’s bizarre Cold War cartoons.
- New museum explores why we keep things.
- The problematic history of who discovered ebola.
- The importance of fashion to Bronze Age Britons.
- The Black Panther Community School is in danger.
- Why did cats get the blame for so many divorces?
- Flappers and getting that flawless “cupid’s bow” lip.
- What would you find in a Victorian Canadian’s purse?
- New slave ship exhibit tells the story of the São Jose.
- Hiding in the pub to cutting the cord: men and childbirth.
- Emancipation and the birth of the professional police force.
- Where did agriculture begin? (Spoiler alert: it’s complicated).
- Rocket slides & monkey bars: the vanishing playgrounds of our youth.