A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
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- The lost art of sin-eating.
- San Francisco’s plague years.
- On the history of the artificial womb.
- The fatphobic myth behind baby fat.
- How to lose weight like a chess player.
- The revolutionary history of mooncakes.
- Lobotomy, science, and the digital humanities.
- The many faces of women who identify as witches.
- New game is an inspiring journey through ancient Greece.
- Johns Hopkins opens new center for psychedelic research.
- The surprising gender bias on display in museum’s animal exhibitions.
- How college dorms evolved to fit America’s gender and racial politics.
- Why don’t we know the names of America’s cruelest, richest slave traders?
- 1946 map shows how Native American trails became the streets of Brooklyn.
- Historians push to create public archive of documents from opioid litigation.