{"id":1652,"date":"2024-07-19T05:50:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T12:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2024-07-18T13:06:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T20:06:17","slug":"always-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/always-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/alwaysbeginningfc-960x960.jpg?resize=525%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22111\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Always Beginning: The Big Bang, the Universe, and You<\/em><br \/>\nby Candace Savage (Author) and Rachel Wada (Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Yd5j3R\">Amazon<\/a>* | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781771648431\">Bookshop<\/a>*<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Explore the science behind the start of our universe and how we came to be a part of it, from the Big Bang and the beginning of life on Earth all the way up until today. <em>Backmatter explaining the science includes a timeline of the origins of the universe through the ages of fish, reptiles, mammals, and humans.<\/em>     <\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/alwaysbeginningint-960x480.webp?resize=525%2C263&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"263\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22112\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. <em>(*bookstore affiliate<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always Beginning: The Big Bang, the Universe, and You by Candace Savage (Author) and Rachel Wada (Illustrator) @ Amazon* | Bookshop* Booktalk: Explore the science behind the start of our universe and how we came to be a part of it, from the Big Bang and the beginning of life on Earth all the way &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/always-beginning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Always Beginning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-qE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1456,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/gravity-mass-energy-and-the-force-that-holds-things-together-with-hands-on-science\/","url_meta":{"origin":1652,"position":0},"title":"Gravity: Mass, Energy, and the Force that Holds Things Together with Hands-On Science","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"March 24, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Gravity: Mass, Energy, and the Force that Holds Things Together with Hands-On Science by Cindy Blobaum (Author) and Micah Rauch (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Scientists ages 8 to 12 explore the invisible but powerful force that is responsible for keeping the entire universe in place--including you! 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