@Sci_Phile's Random-ish Channelings of #Nerdery @BecauseScience #Nerd #Nerdity #Nerds #Nerdy #Nerdily #Nerding

'The subjects of "nerdery" Kyle Hill discusses' (at the base of this post) include:
• Energy measured in units of Horsepower - units of 'the ability to lift 75 kg one-meter off the ground in one second' (humans can output a burst of about 1.2 horsepower, but only about 0.1 HP with any sustainability) ... about 735 Watts (W) of energy
• Speed of Sound (in Air vs. that sound in Water) ... I must admit—I distracted myself & only half-heard this entry and most of the following entries (and my ears 'perked up' when I heard him describe Gravity while failing to mention that the Earth would rip you apart if you could withstand the temperatures at its core).
• Teleporters (or Teletransportation)
• Philosophy 
• Information-Space required for Reassembly of Bio-matter
• how Seasons are dependent on Planetary Orbit
• Memory
• Under-Sea City-Construction & Escaping Alcatraz
• Waiting in Long Lines
• Climate-Change (like Heat in your Car when it's Parked in the Sun)—learn more at Skeptical Science
• Gravity
• Social-Networking for Documentary Research - starting at Wikipedia, on to Google Scholar, etc.
• G-Force

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The word |Nerd| is U.S. student-slang that was probably an alteration the ancient word that meant “ |Stupid or Crazy Person” (|Nut).

Etymonline says 'nerd' originally "came to America" through its use by Theodore (Dr. Seuss) Geisel in 1950's "If I Ran the Zoo" (the creature from Ka-Troo in the picture above)—'Thaumaturgical Engineer' ("Wizard for Hire"?) Brons says kids back then gave the meaning "Comically Unpleasant Creature" to that word, and used it to describe 'fellow-students whom they would otherwise call Drips, Squares or Scurves.'

Brons suggests a few more possible previous-meanings behind the word 'Nerd'–Unkempt Grouch, Peasant, Nosebleed, Party-Pooper, Oddballs, Hank, Fratchimo, Trapezoid, Bent Fender, True Cube, Knurd ("drunk" spelled backwards), Dud, Creep, Fool, Undesirable, Student who's a Stickler for the Rules–but my favorite is one he doesn't seem to have any "documentation" of—an acronym from the Northern Electric Research-&-Development labs in Ottawa, Canada.

(Maybe there are other research-&-development labs with the initials N.E. figuring into their names–New England, Newhart East?–but ... who knows? ... maybe you do, in the comments below)

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... and How did I forget to mention |Nerds|? the candy by first-Wonka and now-Nestlè, named that way for a variety of reasons.

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However, I think the word got its biggest boost from (the source I'm surprised Brons doesn't mention at the link above) the movie-series that drew The Nerds as a social-class that had to conquer opposition from The Jocks..

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