A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.

• The toxic history of preserving body parts.
• The story of the modern toilet.
• AHA roundtable on the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Health Care Act.
• Whatever happened to Stonewall Jackson’s arm?
• The very recent and surprising history of pink and blue as gender signifiers.
• Masculinity and submission.
• The U.S. Government is sorry about the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
• Why living in South Carolina might be dangerous to women’s health.
• Bullied girls have health risks later in life.
• Which country just banned male circumcision and why?
• How did the human mind evolve to what it is today?
• The feminist stand against feminist hygiene products.
• The complicated world of sex in the nursing home.
• The FBI doesn’t want to know about your rape at sea.
• The history of “American” Chinese food.