MAPS: What Your State Is Good At, And What It’s Lame At

Just when you thought you knew everything about a red state or a blue state, these cool maps show that each state is No. 1 in some kind of environmental or public health initiative. (Btdubs, can someone from Michigan explain what an Asian carp is?!)

Education

New Jersey high school has mandatory rite of passage: 55-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail

Health

A woman with Alzheimer’s hadn’t spoken in 5 years. A dose of psilocybin changed everything.

Culture

Her account got hacked. The ‘hacker’ had finished weeks of her physics homework.

Pop Culture

The big East versus West Coast debate we slept on: Whose butter is better?