Gregory Frost
@gregfrost.bsky.social
Author (RHYMER, SHADOWBRIDGE), teacher, part-time stapling machine...
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"It was, I realized, the rhythm of a 4chan greentext post. Having absorbed their worldview online, the convention-goers were recreating it in the meatspace, all the way down to its grammar."
What It’s Like to Watch An Internet-Based Ideology Break Containment by Kelly Weill talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
What It’s Like to Watch An Internet-Based Ideology Break Containment
I first realized the extent of the internet’s takeover of U.S. politics...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"It was, I realized, the rhythm of a 4chan greentext post. Having absorbed their worldview online, the convention-goers were recreating it in the meatspace, all the way down to its grammar."
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*Just because you don’t know your past doesn’t mean you don’t pay the price for it.*
Book View Cafe is delighted to release GIDEON, by @ksmithsf.bsky.social writing as Alex Gordon.
Sometimes the only response to being born a witch is not knowing.
#suspense
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Book View Cafe is delighted to release GIDEON, by @ksmithsf.bsky.social writing as Alex Gordon.
Sometimes the only response to being born a witch is not knowing.
#suspense
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BVC Announces Gideon by Kristine Smith
Gideon by Kristine Smith Just because you don’t know your past doesn’t mean you don’t pay the price for it. While going through her late father’s
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October 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
*Just because you don’t know your past doesn’t mean you don’t pay the price for it.*
Book View Cafe is delighted to release GIDEON, by @ksmithsf.bsky.social writing as Alex Gordon.
Sometimes the only response to being born a witch is not knowing.
#suspense
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Book View Cafe is delighted to release GIDEON, by @ksmithsf.bsky.social writing as Alex Gordon.
Sometimes the only response to being born a witch is not knowing.
#suspense
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The Tsunami of Bogus Book Supporters
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Army of Bots: Deeper Into the Vortex of Nigerian Marketing Scams - Writer Beware
I’ve published a couple of posts now about the tidal wave of AI-driven marketing scams from Nigeria that has swept over the writing world in the past year or so. A hallmark of these scams has been how...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The Tsunami of Bogus Book Supporters
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THE PHOENIX FEATHER OMNIBUS by Sherwood Smith: FLEDGLINGS, REDBARK, FIREBOLT, & DRAGON AND PHOENIX.
Visit Sherwood's ❤️ song to East Asian history, literature, & art with disguises, secret identities, cultivation arcs, family sagas, & even “there was just one bed!”
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Visit Sherwood's ❤️ song to East Asian history, literature, & art with disguises, secret identities, cultivation arcs, family sagas, & even “there was just one bed!”
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![[ALT TEXT: THE PHOENIX FEATHER OMNIBUS, four complete novels. FLEDGLINGS * REDBARK * FIREBOLT * DRAGON AND PHOENIX. By Sherwood Smith. ]
[ALT IMAGE: A simple book cover of matte gold, with black text and white blossoms that may be cherry blossoms, along with a circle of black and white patterned tiles and within the circle a glorious phoenix drawn in back and white.]
Sherwood Smith’s media happy place tends toward braided tales, with characters growing and changing in a world both breathtaking and strange, where striving to become the best one can be matters. She found that in Chinese and Korean historical dramas, which kicked off years of immersion in East Asian history, literature, art, and language.
In 2020 when the world hibernated from the pandemic, she began writing The Phoenix Feather quartet, drawing on all those influences, and throwing in all the tropes she liked best—disguises and secret identities, cultivation arcs, big tropes such as family sagas, and little ones such as “there was just one bed!”
Premise: Twenty-five years ago a pair of lovers ran for their lives from an angry prince and washed up on an island where they adopted new identities—and found themselves blessed by an omen promising great things, a single golden phoenix feather.
Then their three children were born, and found themselves cast out into the world. . . .](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gal2oc2fpdx3u4hqyrukmu7d/bafkreib6pt74zafedpg22rfqczxfu4xcftvweev3kdg63rbbbsk3akwxh4@jpeg)
September 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
THE PHOENIX FEATHER OMNIBUS by Sherwood Smith: FLEDGLINGS, REDBARK, FIREBOLT, & DRAGON AND PHOENIX.
Visit Sherwood's ❤️ song to East Asian history, literature, & art with disguises, secret identities, cultivation arcs, family sagas, & even “there was just one bed!”
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Visit Sherwood's ❤️ song to East Asian history, literature, & art with disguises, secret identities, cultivation arcs, family sagas, & even “there was just one bed!”
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While modifying Douglas Fir #genetics to grow mature timber trees faster, biologists inadvertently hand Nature a means to seek revenge on its most pernicious species . . . humans.
TREEVOLUTION by Paul S. Piper is a Book View Cafe SF #thriller in paper & #ebook.
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TREEVOLUTION by Paul S. Piper is a Book View Cafe SF #thriller in paper & #ebook.
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BVC Announces Treevolution by Paul S. Piper
Treevolution by Paul S. Piper Scientists attempting to modify Douglas fir genetics inadvertently hand Nature a means to seek revenge on its most pernicious
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August 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
While modifying Douglas Fir #genetics to grow mature timber trees faster, biologists inadvertently hand Nature a means to seek revenge on its most pernicious species . . . humans.
TREEVOLUTION by Paul S. Piper is a Book View Cafe SF #thriller in paper & #ebook.
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TREEVOLUTION by Paul S. Piper is a Book View Cafe SF #thriller in paper & #ebook.
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PHILLY BOOK CRAWL Event this Saturday!
Saturday, August 23rd, 2 p.m.—3p.m. Philly Book Crawl Book Signing Event.
Main Point Books, 116 North Wayne Avenue, Wayne, PA 19087
Come mingle, get your books signed and personalized, and enjoy the Book Crawl events at Main Point Books.
Saturday, August 23rd, 2 p.m.—3p.m. Philly Book Crawl Book Signing Event.
Main Point Books, 116 North Wayne Avenue, Wayne, PA 19087
Come mingle, get your books signed and personalized, and enjoy the Book Crawl events at Main Point Books.
August 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
PHILLY BOOK CRAWL Event this Saturday!
Saturday, August 23rd, 2 p.m.—3p.m. Philly Book Crawl Book Signing Event.
Main Point Books, 116 North Wayne Avenue, Wayne, PA 19087
Come mingle, get your books signed and personalized, and enjoy the Book Crawl events at Main Point Books.
Saturday, August 23rd, 2 p.m.—3p.m. Philly Book Crawl Book Signing Event.
Main Point Books, 116 North Wayne Avenue, Wayne, PA 19087
Come mingle, get your books signed and personalized, and enjoy the Book Crawl events at Main Point Books.
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Can a #shapeshifter find a path between the twilight world of shifters and her human life?
FROZEN IN AMBER by Irene Radford, now in #ebook and #paperback. Read a sample over at #BookViewCafe.
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FROZEN IN AMBER by Irene Radford, now in #ebook and #paperback. Read a sample over at #BookViewCafe.
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BVC Announces Frozen in Amber by Irene Radford
Frozen in Amber by Irene Radford A reluctant shapeshifter, can Amber survive Wer politics, or worse, undercover government conspiracies? Amber Tregannis
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August 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Can a #shapeshifter find a path between the twilight world of shifters and her human life?
FROZEN IN AMBER by Irene Radford, now in #ebook and #paperback. Read a sample over at #BookViewCafe.
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FROZEN IN AMBER by Irene Radford, now in #ebook and #paperback. Read a sample over at #BookViewCafe.
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Book View Cafe & @patriceauthor.bsky.social are delighted to bring you THE SCOUNDREL'S DEADLY DEED, #2 of Pat's new Gravesyde Village Mysteries. Historical mystery spiced with romance!
Remember, second chances can be murder.
Try a sample!
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Remember, second chances can be murder.
Try a sample!
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![[ALT TEXT: THE SCOUNDREL'S DEADLY DEED, Gravesyde Village Mystery Book Two by New York Times Bestselling Author Patricia Rice. "Second chances can be murder . . . "]
[ALT IMAGE: A dark book cover with decorative gold lettering at the top and bottom. In the large center, storm clouds are parting, bright light seen at a distant horizon past a village, woods and a lake. A well-manicured farm, sheep grazing on a hill, can be seen in the center. Close to the viewer are two figures, one a young woman with flaming red hair looking off to the right of the picture. She's dressed in a vivid green floor length dress. Several feet behind her is a gentleman in dark business clothing, also looking to the right of the frame, intent on something happening beyond our view. ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gal2oc2fpdx3u4hqyrukmu7d/bafkreihnf2wmpcvawfarlqzguyl4zw2wbkolk3k6efa6fl5nm73mgmpfmm@jpeg)
July 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Book View Cafe & @patriceauthor.bsky.social are delighted to bring you THE SCOUNDREL'S DEADLY DEED, #2 of Pat's new Gravesyde Village Mysteries. Historical mystery spiced with romance!
Remember, second chances can be murder.
Try a sample!
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Remember, second chances can be murder.
Try a sample!
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Marie Brennan's terrific short fiction collection, The Atlas of Anywhere, is out today from Book View Café.
We need #ShortStories & anthologies on our e-readers! Book View Cafe is happy to offer a new collection by award-winning author Marie Brennan. THE ATLAS OF ANYWHERE.
*Seek out extraordinary lands . . .*
#fantasy #dragons #pirates #thieves #StrongFemaleProtagonist
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*Seek out extraordinary lands . . .*
#fantasy #dragons #pirates #thieves #StrongFemaleProtagonist
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BVC Announces The Atlas of Anywhere by Marie Brennan
The Atlas of Anywhere Part of the Collected Short Fiction of Marie Brennan Marie Brennan Seek out extraordinary lands . . . Strange guardians overseeing
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June 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Marie Brennan's terrific short fiction collection, The Atlas of Anywhere, is out today from Book View Café.
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Some great tips on writing historical fiction from Gregory Frost @gregfrost.bsky.social over at the Horror Writer's site! horror.org/nuts-bolts-g...
Nuts & Bolts: Gregory Frost on Writing Historically Based Fiction
By Tom Joyce
When tackling historically based fiction, how do you split the workload between research and writing time? How do you please both casual readers and history buffs? Author Gregory Frost re...
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June 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Some great tips on writing historical fiction from Gregory Frost @gregfrost.bsky.social over at the Horror Writer's site! horror.org/nuts-bolts-g...
For HWA "Nuts & Bolts" column, Tom Joyce interviews me on the topic of researching historical fantasy and horror fiction:
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Nuts & Bolts: Gregory Frost on Writing Historically Based Fiction
By Tom Joyce
When tackling historically based fiction, how do you split the workload between research and writing time? How do you please both casual readers and history buffs? Author Gregory Frost re...
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June 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
For HWA "Nuts & Bolts" column, Tom Joyce interviews me on the topic of researching historical fantasy and horror fiction:
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BVC presents DESCENDING FROM THE MOON by Steven Popkes.
LeRoy Parkin had a secret: a project to raise the intelligence of chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, & baboons to human levels.
Then the apes began discussing who they were and what they wanted. . . .
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LeRoy Parkin had a secret: a project to raise the intelligence of chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, & baboons to human levels.
Then the apes began discussing who they were and what they wanted. . . .
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![[ALT TEXT: DESCENDING FROM THE MOON by Steven Popkes ]
[ALT IMAGE: Under a full moon and a starry sky, a gorilla is playing a gleaming white upright piano. There's a tree leafed out above the back of the instrument, and also an adult pangolin standing on top of the piano.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gal2oc2fpdx3u4hqyrukmu7d/bafkreickunvbvbo3ynv6kbgsu4t7bc6vi7gubjxjzyjpgq34cjudpzmmpm@jpeg)
June 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
BVC presents DESCENDING FROM THE MOON by Steven Popkes.
LeRoy Parkin had a secret: a project to raise the intelligence of chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, & baboons to human levels.
Then the apes began discussing who they were and what they wanted. . . .
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LeRoy Parkin had a secret: a project to raise the intelligence of chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, & baboons to human levels.
Then the apes began discussing who they were and what they wanted. . . .
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Pete Hegseth Vomits Out Of Tank Hatch
June 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Pete Hegseth Vomits Out Of Tank Hatch
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New book out from @gregfrost.bsky.social!
Happiest of book birthdays to brilliant author Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency client Greg Frost @gregfrost.bsky.social! Greg's eerie and haunting novel THE SECRET HOUSE, about a cursed White House is out today through @journalstone.bsky.social ! Check it out & share
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The Secret House
Check out The Secret House - <p>This is not the White House you think you know...</p><p></p><p>In 1841, less than a month after taking office, President William Henry Harrison dies, and his Vice Presi...
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June 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
New book out from @gregfrost.bsky.social!
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Happiest of book birthdays to brilliant author Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency client Greg Frost @gregfrost.bsky.social! Greg's eerie and haunting novel THE SECRET HOUSE, about a cursed White House is out today through @journalstone.bsky.social ! Check it out & share
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The Secret House
Check out The Secret House - <p>This is not the White House you think you know...</p><p></p><p>In 1841, less than a month after taking office, President William Henry Harrison dies, and his Vice Presi...
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June 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Happiest of book birthdays to brilliant author Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency client Greg Frost @gregfrost.bsky.social! Greg's eerie and haunting novel THE SECRET HOUSE, about a cursed White House is out today through @journalstone.bsky.social ! Check it out & share
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This is actually perfect. The emptiness makes it look as ridiculous and wasteful as it is.
June 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
This is actually perfect. The emptiness makes it look as ridiculous and wasteful as it is.
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New from Book View Cafe!
Ridley “Trouble” Matthews is a blank slate.
“Who am I?”
For some people, this is a philosophical question. For “Trouble” Matthews, it’s an existential one.
And knowing the answer could be just as deadly as not knowing.
Read a sample: bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announce...
Ridley “Trouble” Matthews is a blank slate.
“Who am I?”
For some people, this is a philosophical question. For “Trouble” Matthews, it’s an existential one.
And knowing the answer could be just as deadly as not knowing.
Read a sample: bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announce...
![[ALT TEXT: A SEA OF STARS AND TROUBLE by New York Times Bestselling Author Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff. "...a colorful and swash-buckling space adventure... with a rogues' galley of interesting characters." -- Kevin J. Anderson ]
[ALT IMAGE: Against a section of deep space covered in stars and cosmic dust, a man's strong-featured face seems to appear from the darkness. He looks as if his dark gaze is fastened on the reader.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gal2oc2fpdx3u4hqyrukmu7d/bafkreiafpp2ldskmkoaufsu6nkizmom24tzrafh7kjavzesq6hjjhlpa2e@jpeg)
June 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
New from Book View Cafe!
Ridley “Trouble” Matthews is a blank slate.
“Who am I?”
For some people, this is a philosophical question. For “Trouble” Matthews, it’s an existential one.
And knowing the answer could be just as deadly as not knowing.
Read a sample: bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announce...
Ridley “Trouble” Matthews is a blank slate.
“Who am I?”
For some people, this is a philosophical question. For “Trouble” Matthews, it’s an existential one.
And knowing the answer could be just as deadly as not knowing.
Read a sample: bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announce...
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Philadelphia, 1950‘s: a boy, a baseball, a cockroach. Unlikely place. Unlikely characters. Unlikely love story.
Book View Cafe brings you @mayakbohnhoff.bsky.social's very personal fantasy A PRINCESS OF PASSYUNK in #ebook. Where Maya proves there's New World magic!
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Book View Cafe brings you @mayakbohnhoff.bsky.social's very personal fantasy A PRINCESS OF PASSYUNK in #ebook. Where Maya proves there's New World magic!
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![[ALT TEXT: A PRINCESS OF PASSYUNK by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff. "Philadelphia, 1950's: a boy, a magic baseball . . . a cockroach. Unlikely place. Unlikely characters. Unlikely love story.]
[ALT IMAGE: A top and bottom frame of warm brown with pale letters edges a photo montage of vintage 1950s brick sidewalks, old mercury vapor lights. . .and a fiery burst of lights over a trashcan in a dark alley. In the center, a youth in a hooded navy blue sweatshirt is looking to his left, out at the viewer. He's holding a suspiciously white baseball, and a cockroach is sitting on the ball.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gal2oc2fpdx3u4hqyrukmu7d/bafkreib7cmawulujuebkvqtg3e2ld7ev5j2it7iqpbmw2q4nirlfhdozom@jpeg)
May 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Philadelphia, 1950‘s: a boy, a baseball, a cockroach. Unlikely place. Unlikely characters. Unlikely love story.
Book View Cafe brings you @mayakbohnhoff.bsky.social's very personal fantasy A PRINCESS OF PASSYUNK in #ebook. Where Maya proves there's New World magic!
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Book View Cafe brings you @mayakbohnhoff.bsky.social's very personal fantasy A PRINCESS OF PASSYUNK in #ebook. Where Maya proves there's New World magic!
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Uh, what?
Many of you probably know about this, but it blew my mind today.
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Faster than the speed of light! 😵 w/Neil deGrasse Tyson
YouTube video by BigSealTheory
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May 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Uh, what?
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Happy book birthday to JDLA author @gregfrost.bsky.social Gregory Frost! His fantasy novel RHYMER: HEL is out today through @baenbooks.bsky.social Baen Books! Part of his stunning RHYMER trilogy, this one set in Elizabethan England. Don't miss this! bookshop.org/p/books/rhym...
Rhymer: Hel
Check out Rhymer: Hel - <b>A Wild Chase Through Elizabethan England</b><BR><BR>Thomas the Rhymer, immortal, shape-changing foe of the diabolical Elf Queen and her merciless Yvag knights, continues his...
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May 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Happy book birthday to JDLA author @gregfrost.bsky.social Gregory Frost! His fantasy novel RHYMER: HEL is out today through @baenbooks.bsky.social Baen Books! Part of his stunning RHYMER trilogy, this one set in Elizabethan England. Don't miss this! bookshop.org/p/books/rhym...
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Another day, another block............
May 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Another day, another block............
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The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
May 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.