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

• Awesome Abe Lincoln.
• Kids’ chemistry sets used to be way cooler (and way more dangerous)!
• Revolutionary War tune found in the pages of a school boy’s math book.
• Is the Komen Foundation misleading women?
• The 1948 Olympics and the Flying Housewife.
• Medical Muckraking .
• IUDs becoming more popular with US women.
• Shapewear for teens!?
• Vintage summer fun.
• No loitering in ice cream parlors – and other bygone rules for teachers.
• The growing market for men’s masterbation aids.
• Stress and the female brain.
• History? There’s an app for that.
• Oxford University: Now more gender-neutral friendly!
• Medical innovations in the Civil War.
• And again…Awesome Abe Lincoln.