Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth?
NASA's irrational approach to risk undermines its mission and costs thousands of lives.
February 2012
Cover Story
A Twinkle of Hope
Obama has moved space policy in the right direction, but we still have a long way to go.
Culture & Reviews
A Partial Space Science Fiction Reading List
From Robert Heinlein to Joan Slonczewski
Science Fiction Faces Facts
NASA has fizzled, but Wernher von Braun's exuberant vision lives on.
Steve Jobs, the Inhumane Humanist
The founder of Apple may have been a narcissistic jerk, but his humanity was revealed by the liberating objects he made.
Editor's Note
Columns
Skyscrapers As Spaceships
The "rampant individualism" and surprising environmentalism of really tall buildings
A Policy of Lying
Why does the most open and transparent administration in history lie about government records?
For Richer and for Poorer
Millionaires get poorer while the poor get richer. So what's all this talk about the income gap?
Asset forfeiture follies
Motel Hell
Citings
Phone Frisking
Warrantless searches
Deportation Nation
Not going home
POTUS Pot Poll
Obama vs. the Internet
Cheese, Danish
Fat tax in Denmark
Bone of Contention
Marrow match money
Cyber Peace
The online war that isn't
A Farm and a Leg
Ag subsidies forever
Ewww Politics
Disgust and ideology
Loud and Proud
Pump up the volume, legally?
Loko Notion
Five drinks in one
Dessert in the Desert
Food policy myth
Briefly Noted
Contributors
Artifact
To Boldly Go Where No Wives or Kids Can Follow
The final frontier isn't just for misfits and loners.
Interview
The Decline of Violence
Neuroscientist Steven Pinker on the triumph of peace and prosperity over death and destruction
