Celebrating the 20th anniversary of OK Computer (a favourite here at Lapsus) and Radiohead’s announcement of OKNOTOK, we’ve decided to compile a list of our top 10 favourite Radiohead songs. Write-ups are by our two resident journalists: Julian and Billy. There is no order, except perhaps for our mutual number one. And just for you, … Continue reading
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Fluxgate Magnets, Gravity Science and LEGO: A look into the things on board NASA’s Juno
JUNO ORBITS JUPITER. After a five-year journey through space, NASA’s space-probe Juno arrived last week at planet Jupiter, the gas-giant, the largest planet in our solar system. NASA’s Mission Juno surveys the northern and southern lights of Jupiter, the planet’s magnetic field, radiation, as well as the secrets that lie beneath Jupiter’s thick swirl of … Continue reading
Warhol prints: STOLEN
THE FBI is offering up to $25,000 ($32,400 AUD) for any information on the seven Andy Warhol paintings stolen from a Missouri art museum last week. The iconic Campbell’s Soup Can paintings, part of a set of 10, worth $500,000 in total, were taken from the Springfield Art Museum during a break-in, in the early … Continue reading
A single-celled organism with a small human-like ‘eye’
— Billy Wright SCIENTISTS STUDYING MICROSCOPIC LIFE IN SEAWATER have found, what we laypeople might call, a tiny floating eyeball. Just as with our own eyes, the creature is fitted with a lens, cornea and retina. But what’s remarkable is that it’s all inside the one cell. Scientists from the University of British Columbia (UBC) had … Continue reading
Artificially intelligent software learns to defeat human gamers
“Artificially intelligent software, the Deep Q-network agent, has taught itself to play 49 different video games; it then proceeded to defeat its makers, as well as the human professionals.” Continue reading
‘MOMMY AND I ARE ONE’: The strange experiments of Subliminal Psychodynamic Activation
At 5 milliseconds the Subject didn’t notice a hidden message placed between the slides. But they seem to have felt it: “MOMMY AND I ARE ONE”. Continue reading
The prehistoric first words of man & womankind
Image: Reconstruction of Homo habilis, of a Hominini tribe. Westfälisches Museum für Archäologie, Herne. Wikimedia Commons. By Billy Wright ‘Beastly,’ was the first word of a child George Orwell; he was eighteen months old and bedridden with bronchitis. Russel Brand’s first words were ‘don’t do that’—appropriately repressive? Steven Spielberg asks back with his first, ‘why?’ Bambi the … Continue reading
Med students learn psychopathology with ‘Seinfeld’
(Feature image: Still of Julia Louis-Dreyfus in NBC’s Seinfeld) By Billy Wright It seems the whole universe truly is against George Costanza. Jerry, Elaine, his Mother and that girl who saw him in the Henry VIII costume have each tried to coax George into psychiatric treatment, yet he resists. But resistance is futile, transcendentally, when psychiatric … Continue reading
Welcome to Lapsus (Currently Under Construction)
Hello and thank you for visiting Lapsus. If you’re visiting us for the first time, you may be wondering what this website entails. The best place to start would be to explain why we decided to create Lapsus. For starters, when co-creator Billy Wright and I first came up with the idea for Lapsus, we believed that a socially … Continue reading