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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Flannel Boy on June 17, 2007, 12:01:56 AM

Title: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Flannel Boy on June 17, 2007, 12:01:56 AM
not per capita, but total GDP

(http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/350816052_0a392a0d28_o1.jpg)

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps/ (http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps/)
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Madrun Badrun on June 17, 2007, 12:03:44 AM
woo texas-canada
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Flannel Boy on June 17, 2007, 12:08:29 AM
woo texas-canada
You make that sound like a good thing. I'm glad that the only thing we have in common with them is our GDP.



edit: another map
 Where (and How) Evolution Is Taught In the US

(http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/v6i8g11.jpg)


edit: and another
A Cartogram of the World’s Population

(http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/population1024x512.png)
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Madrun Badrun on June 17, 2007, 12:09:45 AM
 :lol

edit:  DO YOU HAVE A MAP THAT SHOWS HOW THE MOVIE LOOK WHO'S COMING TO DINNER WAS RECEIVED IN THE DIFFERENT STATES?


damn caplocks  :maf
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: drozmight on June 17, 2007, 12:12:52 AM
Shut the fuck up Donnie.
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Flannel Boy on June 17, 2007, 12:13:48 AM
The World in (George Orwell’s) 1984

(http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/1984_fictious_world_map.png)
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Flannel Boy on June 17, 2007, 12:18:13 AM
(http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/africa_in_perspective_map.jpg)
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 17, 2007, 12:43:19 AM
Haha one state=one country. Keep on truckin Uncle Samuel :bow
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Beezy on June 17, 2007, 12:47:27 AM
NY = Brazil

:)
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: CajoleJuice on June 17, 2007, 12:47:44 AM
NY = Brazil

:)

HOT
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Yeti on June 17, 2007, 12:49:48 AM
sweet, australia.
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: ToxicAdam on June 17, 2007, 01:03:18 AM
I definitely remember being taught evolution in high school. In our state required Biology class. I wonder why they say Ohio doesn't teach it?

Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Phoenix Dark on June 17, 2007, 01:06:50 AM
Obvious bias. More America hating from the far left and its Eurotrash associates.

Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Fresh Prince on June 17, 2007, 01:07:49 AM
So basically America is filled with rich, dumb people?

LOL America sucks.
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Human Snorenado on June 17, 2007, 02:28:24 AM
Fuck yeah Switzerland.  That's the best thing that's ever been said about Georgia!
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Beezy on June 17, 2007, 02:47:37 AM
Obvious bias. More America hating from the far left and its Eurotrash associates.
You just mad that you don't live in Brazil.
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Vizzys on June 17, 2007, 02:51:56 AM
belarus you say
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Yeti on June 17, 2007, 12:31:18 PM
I definitely remember being taught evolution in high school. In our state required Biology class. I wonder why they say Ohio doesn't teach it?



Yeah, I was wondering about that myself.
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Cheebs on June 17, 2007, 12:39:28 PM
I grew up in Ohio and I was taught evolution.
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 17, 2007, 12:42:01 PM
Dont u mean EVILution hyuck hyuck
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Cheebs on June 17, 2007, 12:46:02 PM
Dont u mean EVILution hyuck hyuck
Does the fall guy believe in evolution?
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Flannel Boy on June 17, 2007, 12:52:10 PM
Quote
Green indicates that evolution theory is taught in a ‘very good/excellent’ way. These states include the liberal states of

    * California (“Well organized”)
    * Rhode Island
    * Connecticut
    * New Jersey
    * Pennsylvania and
    * Delaware.

But also a Midwestern, more conservative state such as

    * Indiana (”Exemplary”)

and even two southern states with a reputation for religiosity:

    * North Carolina (“Model of good organization”) and
    * South Carolina (“Thorough and challenging treatment”).

Yellow indicates indicates where evolution is taught in a ‘satisfactory/good’ manner. This includes the majority of states, from the north and west not usually included in the Bible Belt, such as

    * Washington
    * Oregon (“solid if uninspired”)
    * Idaho
    * Montana (“human evolution ignored”)
    * South Dakota
    * Nebraska (“marred by creationist notions”)
    * Minnesota
    * Michigan
    * New York (“inclusion of creationist jargon”)
    * Vermont and
    * Massachusetts (“marred by creationist jargon”)

Similarly, the colour red, indicating where the teaching of evolution is’ unsatisfactory, useless or absent’, is spread out across the entire country, not just in the South:

    * North Dakota
    * Wyoming
    * Illinois (“an embarrassment”)
    * Ohio (“the E-word is avoided”)
    * Maine (“useless”) and
    * Mississippi (“Mississippi seems determined to keep evolution outside its borders”)

The map first appeared in 2002 in Scientific American, and was based on data collected by Lawrence S. Lerner of California State University at Long Beach.
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: MrAngryFace on June 17, 2007, 01:05:23 PM
(http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/mrangryface_bucket/Memes%20n%20Things/1182097810967.gif)
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Flannel Boy on June 17, 2007, 01:07:20 PM
(http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb165/mrangryface_bucket/Memes%20n%20Things/1182097810967.gif)
:lol
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: etiolate on June 17, 2007, 03:02:23 PM
california education = well organized????

Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: max_cool on June 17, 2007, 07:35:38 PM
Sweet! Thailand... now to find me a 13 year old ladyboy!

Also, I must argue with the findings of the evolution map. Growing up in North Dakota we were taught evolution. We may not have side tracked our biology classes to focus on evolution but it was interspersed throughout our studies of biology. Our classes tended to focus more on biological functions like how the heart works and how different animal groups have different types of hearts. Then the teacher would mention that mammals who evolved relatively late in time have the most complex and sophisticated hearts. Never challenged, hardly discussed, evolution was accepted. There was no need to get into a detailed discussion of evolution.
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: FatalT on June 17, 2007, 07:49:54 PM
Woo Singapore!
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Cheebs on June 17, 2007, 07:52:46 PM
california education = well organized????


(http://static.flickr.com/37/79710727_db6dc8f827.jpg)
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: max_cool on June 17, 2007, 09:03:02 PM
one more map:

(http://members.cox.net/markmuggli/Religion_by_county.jpg)
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Ichirou on June 17, 2007, 10:04:42 PM
one more map:

(http://members.cox.net/markmuggli/Religion_by_county.jpg)

Mormons are slowly taking over, omg!
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: Cheebs on June 17, 2007, 10:07:37 PM
Michigan is mostly catholics and not protestants. :bow
Title: Re: US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs
Post by: ToxicAdam on June 20, 2007, 02:42:43 PM
evolution in schools is a joke. I "learned" it in middle school and high school, but nothing was really explained that well. It wasn't until university biology classes that I really was taught by someone with an understanding of it.


Isn't that true of all the subjects though? It was amazing to take remedial math classes (Algebra 2) in college and wonder what the hell they taught in high school that I still got a B-.

Even the history classes in College kicked the shit out of what I learned in High School (honors/AP classes too). Most of HS was all rote memorization of dates and facts. College actually taught you details and the motivations for what caused these events.