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

• Hippies worshipped Satan, smelled bad (according to voucher schools in Louisiana).
• Little House, alcohol, and gendered respectability.
• The immortal, shattered cells of Henrietta Lacks.
• Epidemiologist’s advice: Be afraid of your food.
• It’s been 45 years since the My Lai massacre.
• Construction crew unearths Black Plague victims.
• The return of the Cossacks in Russia.
• A better Plan B.
• Miscarriage in Early Modern England.
• Grad student finds new work by first published African-American poet.
• A brief history of the pacifier and other baby basics.
• Flaws found in ovarian cancer treatments.
• Bee venom kills HIV?
• Dengue Fever now endemic in Florida.
• “If We Must Die”