{"id":1017,"date":"2021-04-09T06:50:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2021-04-08T15:39:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T22:39:31","slug":"nature-did-it-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/nature-did-it-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature Did It First"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nature Did It First: Engineering Through Biomimicry<\/em>
\nby Karen Ansberry (Author) and Jennifer DiRubbio (Illustrator)
\n@ Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a> | IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> Explore the ways we have looked to nature for brilliant new designs and innovations to solve our own conundrums. Each example in nature is paired with a rhyming description, an example of how it has been used by us, and a question to the reader–“what other problems can be solved?”<\/p>\n

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It’s STEM Friday!<\/a> (STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2021 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nature Did It First: Engineering Through Biomimicry by Karen Ansberry (Author) and Jennifer DiRubbio (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Explore the ways we have looked to nature for brilliant new designs and innovations to solve our own conundrums. Each example in nature is paired with a rhyming description, an example of how … <\/p>\n

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