A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
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- A diet for old age.
- The sensory history of pine.
- 9 cold remedies from history.
- The Texas archives war of 1842.
- A Viking, a sheep, and climate change.
- Sugar castles and suckling pig arches.
- Why I wanted to learn to perform abortions.
- Donald Duck: Disney’s agent of imperialism.
- A history of fences on the U.S.-Mexico divide.
- Victorian fashion dolls and the feminine ideal.
- Hey witches, John Proctor’s house is for sale.
- The secret intellectual history of mathematics.
- There may be Viagra in that herbal supplement.
- Therapy dogs can spread superbugs to children.
- The long history of men policing women’s sportswear.
- The role of circus performers in the fight for women’s suffrage.
- Ectoplasm and the last British woman tried for witchcraft (in 1944).
- How SFO’s Harvey Milk terminal will reflect history of gay activism.