A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The testosterone myth.
- Rube Goldberg got tech right.
- The history of the wolf-whistle.
- Archives and dumping grounds.
- On the misuses of medical history.
- The curious origins of the dollar sign.
- A brief history of breasts for pleasure.
- What it means to study food at an HBCU.
- Solving a medical mystery with ora traditions.
- The history of suffragist dining spaces in the U.S.
- Enslaved people and divorce in the African diaspora.
- The black woman who biked across the US in the 1930s.
- How should we archive the soundtrack to 1970s feminism?
- When Americans believed Buddhism was a dangerous cult.
- Teen Boss magazine for girls is a thing that exists, apparently.
- Why “historical accuracy” is a bad excuse for sexual assault in fantasy.