What Each State Has More of than Others

What does your state have more of than other states per capita? This map has some superlative for each of the 50 states, some of which are kind of surprising (Georgia, Texas), others not so much (Utah, Kentucky). Of course, every state is tops at something, but many states are tops at several things. In those cases, Estately selected the most provocative thing to label a state. They posted a list of source links for each superlative, in case you can’t believe them. See, Georgia is not overrun with pandas, but Zoo Atlanta has seven living there now, and no other state in the U.S. can match that. -via Daily of the Day

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Speaking of pandas, my kids by now have seen pandas in Atlanta, Washington DC, Memphis, and Toronto. They'll have to get to San Diego on their own to complete the map -that's a long way to drive.

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Neat video! May I suggest that it's not a dorsal fin? I would say the fin is located ventrally...

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The way these fish swim is interesting, but the most fascinating thing is that they can sense electric fields around their bodies:

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2010/01/14/bode-plots-fish-awesome-electric-field-sensing-fish

(RE: the above link, how cool is it that they've made Bode plots of the fish's motion? That's something any good engineer can appreciate!)

This same form of sensing has been used by other robots; for example, here is a robot using electric field sensing to plug itself into wall outlets for automatic recharging:

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2010/01/03/self-feeding-robots-robots-plug-themselves-wall-outlets