From the editor: Symmetry's Web expansion
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| Photo: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab |
With 30 issues behind us, this issue of symmetry launches the next phase of the magazine's development. Our readers now use the magazine in different ways, and we are reaching a much larger audience. While you are outspoken in wanting to keep the print magazine, many of you are now more comfortable reading online.
Starting from this issue, we will publish six print issues each year instead of 10 and add a much larger range of online content. We have completely redesigned our Web site to accommodate this expansion. Our hope is that this will give readers new ways to respond and become active members of the symmetry community.
We still plan to cover the same kinds of topics in the magazine, but will be adding online resources we think readers will find useful, including backgrounders and fact sheets on many topics.
Online, we will be posting new content on a regular basis, a few times per week at least. A symmetry blog will have the latest stories and discussions on topics ranging from research and news to policy and analysis. Of course, there will still be plenty of the fun stories that are a hallmark of the magazine.
Bubbling away in the background, we already have a symmetry Facebook group and YouTube channel and expect to see them become more active in coming months. We will be soliciting science videos and photographs for contests, and looking for other materials from the very creative minds of our readers that deserve a wider audience. As always, if you would like to see us address a particular topic or have ideas you think will appeal to fellow readers, please let us know.
This next phase of symmetry is very exciting for our team, and we hope you will all join in.
David Harris, Editor-in-chief
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