Articles tagged "UK"

BRIXTON INCIDENT (1981)

Thirty years ago, before social media would be bandied about the London riots as a "weapon":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/world/europe/12iht-social12.html / "counter-weapon":http://motherboard.tv/2011/8/10/faceless-threats-send-london-s-diy-crime…

Motherboard TV: The Biggest Telescope on Earth

From a quiet swath of English countryside, some one and a half hours outside of London, researchers are receiving radio messages from the farthest reaches of the universe.To do it, they're relying on one of astronomy's newest and largest gadgets: the…