Yeah yeah, I should be working...

I just took the Pew News IQ Quiz. Here are my results:



How did you do?

America's Least Green States.

I just read this article and it ranked the "green-ness" of all the US states. The five at the bottom of the list are:

• 45 - Kentucky
  
• 46 - Mississippi
  
• 47 - Louisiana
  
• 48 - Alabama
  
• 49 - Indiana
  
• 50 - West Virginia
  

They are at the bottom of the list because they "all suffer from a mix of toxic waste, lots of pollution and consumption, and no clear plans to do anything about it." At the top of the list are:

• 1 - Vermont
  
• 2 - Oregon
  
• 3 - Washington
  
• 4 - Hawaii
  
• 5 - Maryland
  

Michigan is near the middle at number 24. Why are Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana always at the bottom of every list? Do the people of these states just not care about anything?

Summer of the Bridge.

According to this website, it seems like 27% of bridges in Alabama are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. In Michigan it's 28%.

Statistics are fun.

Think Of The Children.

This article talks about children's lives in the UK. Out of 21 countries, the UK ranked the lowest. The US was number 20. Why is the US always at the bottom of these kinds of rankings? Here's the list:

1. Netherlands
2. Sweden
3. Denmark
4. Finland
5. Spain
6. Switzerland
7. Norway
8. Italy
9. Republic of Ireland
10. Belgium
11. Germany
12. Canada
13. Greece
14. Poland
15. Czech Republic
16. France
17. Portugal
18. Austria
19. Hungary
20. United States
21. United Kingdom

Let's Move to Iceland!

I just read this article. It says that the top 8 countries to live (out of 177) are:

1. Norway

2. Iceland

3. Australia

4. Ireland

5. Sweden

6. Canada

7. Japan

8. U.S.A.

This website says that the 17 least corrupt countries (out of 159) are:

1. Iceland

2. Finland

3. New Zealand

4. Denmark

5. Singapore

6. Sweden

7. Switzerland

8. Norway

9. Australia

10. Austria

11. Netherlands

12. United Kingdom

13. Luxembourg

14. Canada

15. Hong Kong

16. Germany

17. United States

Where Do You Want To Live?

According to this list, 61% of the cities on the list are safer than Tuscaloosa. This place has about the same number of people as Sterling Heights, MI (my hometown). Only 4% of cities on the list are safer than Sterling Heights and it's a suburb of Detroit (99.7% of cities are safer). All of the largest cities in Alabama are pretty high on the list. The safest city in Alabama is Tuscaloosa and the most dangerous is Birmingham where 98.7% of cities on the list are safer.