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In the 1540s, an Italian doctor named Gabriele Fallopius - the same man who discovered and subsequently named the Fallopian tubes of the female anatomy - wrote about syphilis, advocating the use of layered linen during intercourse for more "adventurous" (read: promiscuous) men. Legendary lover Casanova wrote about his pitfalls with medieval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Safe Sex | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

“I was very excited, especially since before being invited to join, I always imagined it to be a society with learned scholars speaking Greek,” said Diana C. Wise ’09, a History and Literature concentrator who is pursuing a secondary field in...

Author: By Emma R. Carron, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Accepts 48 | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

So when Augustine used such language, he meant nothing by it? He could mean many things by it, but often he's dealing in what you might call "rhetorical Jews" rather than real Jews. It's also important to remember that for much of Augustine's lifetime Jews were Roman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Saint Augustine Good for the Jews? | 12/7/2008 | See Source »

For those Harvard students wondering how the first National Poet of Wales gets over her writer’s block, Gwyneth Lewis says pressure is often the way to blow the lid off the can. “It’s amazing how a looming deadline will unfreeze you...

Author: By Anna E. Sakellariadis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Welsh Poet Doesn't Suffer | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

The fictional Erlendur's success has spawned a wave of young crime novelists in Iceland. Until Indridason, Icelandic literature consisted primarily of medieval sagas and the somber novels of Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness. Indridason has overcome the skepticism of local critics by taking pains to remain credible to his compatriots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Most Miserable | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

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