Welcome to the Center of the Universe

April 26, 2008 By Tom

Here it is, What Is Enlightenment? Issue 40, available now at a newsstand near you!

Buy it today!

Here’s my compelling description of the issue, written in marketing-ese:

Ever since Copernicus proved that the universe doesn’t revolve around Earth, humanity’s place in the cosmos has steadily continued to shrink. But we may be far more central to the universe than we think. WIE explores the ways in which science is coming to understand our true cosmic significance. Plus, we join Deepak Chopra for a candid tour of his mythic life, take an illuminating look at the New Atheism movement, and question the purpose of existence with Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen. Featuring: Joel R. Primack, Nancy Ellen Abrams, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Paul Davies, Janna Levin, Stewart Brand, Rupert Sheldrake, and more.

It’s an awesome (and gorgeous!) issue, if I do say so myself, and you can click the image above to see the full table of contents. If you’d like to get started reading it right now without getting up from your chair (lazy slacker!), you can subscribe to our new WIE digital edition, which replicates the entire issue (ads and all) in a slick zoomable, flippable, online format. I don’t know how many trees you’ll be saving (since the magazine is printed on 100% recycled paper), but the CO2 output from the power used for you to read it on your computer screen is probably less than the CO2 used by the printing plant to print an issue (maybe?). Really, though, it’s just plain convenient. Paper magazines take up space.

In other WIE news, we’ve just started a weekly email called “Think About This,” featuring exclusive quotes, article outtakes, excerpts from our research materials, etc., as well as cool video clips and other things we editors come across online. Subscribe to our email list today (here, in the little box in the right column) and see what you think.

Oh, and if you’ve read the new issue of the magazine, I’d be very interested to hear what you think. Pro or con…bring it on! I might even include you in our next issue’s Letters/Comments section (I want to start expanding our “Letters” to include blogosphere activity, like New York magazine does).


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