Go Forth and Science

Thank you. In April 2014, Slate announced its new paid membership program called Slate Plus. The Hive Overmind at Slate asked us writers to promote it and even had a contest: Whoever got the most people to sign up would get a $500 bonus. Seeing that I have a pretty big audience here and that I was asking that audience to pay for something, it didn't feel right to keep that money if I won. So I announced that if I did win I'd give it all to Donors Choose, a non-profit group that organizes donatio...