US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs

[Flannel Boy]

not per capita, but total GDP



http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps/

[Madrun Badrun]

woo texas-canada

[Flannel Boy]

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




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

[Madrun Badrun]

 

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 

[drozmight]

Shut the fuck up Donnie.

[Flannel Boy]

The World in (George Orwell’s) 1984

[Flannel Boy]

[Phoenix Dark]

Haha one state=one country. Keep on truckin Uncle Samuel

[Beezy]

NY = Brazil

[CajoleJuice]

NY = Brazil

HOT

[Yeti]

sweet, australia.

[ToxicAdam]

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?

[Phoenix Dark]

Obvious bias. More America hating from the far left and its Eurotrash associates.

[Fresh Prince]

So basically America is filled with rich, dumb people?

LOL America sucks.

[Human Snorenado]

Fuck yeah Switzerland.  That's the best thing that's ever been said about Georgia!

[Beezy]

Obvious bias. More America hating from the far left and its Eurotrash associates.

You just mad that you don't live in Brazil.

[Vizzys]

belarus you say

[Yeti]

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.

[Cheebs]

I grew up in Ohio and I was taught evolution.

[MrAngryFace]

Dont u mean EVILution hyuck hyuck

[Cheebs]

Dont u mean EVILution hyuck hyuck

Does the fall guy believe in evolution?

[Flannel Boy]

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.

[MrAngryFace]

[Flannel Boy]

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[etiolate]

california education = well organized?

[max_cool]

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.

[FatalT]

Woo Singapore!

[Cheebs]

california education = well organized?

[max_cool]

one more map:

[Ichirou]

one more map:

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Mormons are slowly taking over, omg!

[Cheebs]

Michigan is mostly catholics and not protestants.

[ToxicAdam]

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.