Hey you glittering little damselflies dancing and darting and whirling over a placid lake.
As you may have noticed, the Daily Dose has gotten...not so daily lately. Sorry about that. The day job has been keeping me super busy and given the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve been getting a lot more writing commissions lately. Nevertheless, even more of you are still becoming paid subscribers, which is so awesome!!
Given this, I’ve been trying to think of ways to make some long-promised paid subscriber-only content while still making plenty of content for those of y’all who can’t pay, whom I still love and cherish deeply and want to provide some good, sweet, syrupy science content for.
So! I’m so excited to announce that starting starting this month, I’ll be launching a new column called...well I don’t know what it’s called yet, but tentatively it’s called Ask A Science Journalist! In this column I’ll be collecting science topics sent in from paid subscribers that y’all are curious about (a lot of you have sent in topics already without me even having to ask, which is rad and how I know you nerds are dedicated to your nerd-dom), and doing a monthly, in-depth, long-form, meticulously researched post on a subject I’ve chosen at random from your suggestions. By “at random”, I of course mean whatever sounds fun and interesting to me that month. So if you’re a paid subscriber and want to send in a topic for me to research to sate your boundless curiosity, just shoot me a little ol’ message! You can email me in the link below, put a suggestion in a comment on this post or any other, dm me on Twitter, or throw a rock through my window with a note on it. Any of those methods of communication work for me.
The tentatively-titled Ask A Science Journalist column will be paid subscriber-only, but not to worry, I’ll still be giving y’all unpaid subscribers plenty of regular free content, just probably not daily. The Daily Dose will still be dropping in y’all’s inboxes and be free for all, but will now likely be a couple of times a week instead of daily. Maybe I’ll just call it The Dose. Less of a ring to it, but more accurate. Or maybe I’ll change the name entirely, who knows. Names are a fickle construct here. Regardless, whatever the Daily Dose will now be called, you’ll be getting one today! It’s not going anywhere. It will remain here, in your life, a nameless corporeal being telepathically beaming science news straight into your brains.
That’s it folks! As always, if you want to become a paid subscriber just hit the cute lil “subscribe” button below, and if you don’t or you can’t, don’t worry! I still think you’re rad and I’d still sacrifice a limb for you. I’d sacrifice other people’s limbs too. How many limbs do you want? Just tell me, I gotchu.
Love ya nerds! Stay safe, be well, don’t let the bedbugs bite. Or do, if you’re into that. I don’t know your life. xoxo
Love this. I’ll think of weird things for you to research for me.