Snapshots is a new Blargus feature that shares photos of campus life and weekend activities that are seen in the print edition of The Argus. Taken any good photos? Email them to argus@wesleyan.edu This week’s photos were all taken by Argus staff photographer Andy Ribner. [nggallery id=8]
As I write this, Hanukkah will begin tomorrow night. One thing that confuses me to this day is how it manages to be so successful. “Oh, the Yuletide sentiment!”, you tell me, “Without Christmas, Hanukkah would be forgotten and ignored!” Not so fast. There was indeed a Hanukkah before Christmas commercialism on the scale seen […]
There’s a type of lens called a tilt-shift lens, seen on the right. It consists of tilting and shifting the lens to adjust a really narrow depth of field (the area of the environment that’s in focus), enabling you to focus selectively. The coolest part of this is that it makes anything you take a […]
Monotheistic religions have a problem in the modern era. Perhaps one could say that Monotheism in general has that same problem. Christianity is a religion whose holy scriptures are in Classical Greek. The Catholic Church holds Latin in esteem, but a lot of the individual words in Christian jargon are either Greek, such as “Eurcharist”, […]
Montreal’s most famous retro-keyboard-synth-pop-’80s nostalgic duo, a bubbling cauldron of funk, released their third studio album, Business Casual on September 14th.
Well, this isn’t “turrrible.” We here at the Blargus bring you our first ever Blargus podcast–we’ll be publishing every week on topics from Steve Nash’s ears to American Politics. This week we’re talking NBA, so check it: Powered by Podbean.com
Islam has a heavy emphasis on daily prayer, and while (now) less pronounced, it also exists in Judaism. It is almost certain that many other religions past and present engage the notion of daily prayer, but these two are noteworthy ones in which it is practiced. Islam’s prayers are five times a day in the […]
Here’s a quickie. I always thought the Fringe opening titles were cool. (Done by the great Andrew Kramer). In one of the episodes, the show takes place in the 80’s, and the show-runners thought it’d be cool to redo the title sequence with an 80’s flare. Here’s the original, then the alternate. Mm, nostalgic. You […]
We at Wesleyan and other colleges are likely used to seeing religious communities as Student Groups. In many cases, these religious groups get along with each other, such as the numerous collaborations brokered between the Wesleyan Jewish Community and the Muslim Student Assembly. After all, this is secular America at its finest. But in many […]
They’ve fought aliens and evil empires. They’ve found themselves trapped in societies that favored men. They’ve gotten down to business to defeat the Huns. These are the woman warriors of fiction who thrill us, make us cheer, and inspire us to attain even a fraction of their fortitude.