One of my daily reads is Neatorama -- a collection of interesting nerdy links. First -- an interesting bit about Dr. Seuss:
Dr. Seuss Invented the Word "Nerd"
According to the blog Your Mind Blown, the first documented use of the word "nerd" was in the 1950 Dr. Seuss book If I Ran the Zoo. Here is a synopsis:[...] a boy named Gerald McGrew made a large number of delightfully extravagant claims as to what he would do, if he were in charge at the zoo. Among these was that he would bring a creature known as a Nerd from the land of Ka-Troo.
Link to original article at: Your Mind Blown Second -- a great hack to prevent birds from flying head-on into glass windows:
New Type of Glass Prevents Needless Bird Collisions
Perhaps 100 millions birds die every year in the United States due to collisions with glass. Ornilux, a new type of glass made by the German company Arnold Glas, may provide a solution. It has an ultraviolet coating that birds can see, but humans can�t under normal conditions.
Original article at treehugger