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Team USA celebrates with their bronze medals during the victory ceremony during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Tuesday.

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I’ve been obsessed with rugby for 30 years, and I’m so here for this Olympic moment

August 1, 2024 • The U.S. women’s rugby team just won a historic Olympic medal for the country. To this longtime player and fan, it’s a pivotal moment for the sport and a reminder of how it changed her life.

From pickleball to Cat'lympics, these are your favorite hobbies of the year

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From pickleball to Cat'lympics, these are your favorite hobbies of the year

December 11, 2023 • We asked, you answered: fencing, small science projects and seeing national parks were among the top hobbies that NPR readers and listeners told us they were really into this year.

Tatreez is a testament to the resilience and creativity of Palestinian women

Tatreez is a centuries-old traditional Palestinian embroidery art form. It encompasses the variety of colorful stitching found on Palestinian textiles. Linah Mohammad hide caption

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Linah Mohammad

Tatreez is a testament to the resilience and creativity of Palestinian women

November 27, 2023 • Tatreez is traditional Palestinian embroidery that uses colorful stitching found on textiles, filled with symbolic motifs that represent the different facets of Palestinian life and culture.

How making jewelry got me out of my creative rut

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How making jewelry got me out of my creative rut

November 24, 2023 • In the peak of the pandemic, unemployed with lots of free time, I took a chance and tinkered with making clay creations. I felt a sense of immense pride — coupled with the nagging desire to do better.

What Britney Spears' book taught me about resilience and self love

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What Britney Spears' book taught me about resilience and self love

November 11, 2023 • The release of Britney Spears' memoir, The Woman in Me, means she gets to reclaim her story after it has been told for her for too long. And in a way, I got to revisit and reclaim my own, too.

Finding your place in the galaxy with the help of Star Trek

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Finding your place in the galaxy with the help of Star Trek

October 14, 2023 • I don't remember a time when I didn't love Star Trek. This show, and my father who introduced me to it, built the foundation for my sense of social justice as an astrophysicist of color.

The Plain Bagel Rule: How naked bread is the ultimate test of a bakery

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The Plain Bagel Rule: How naked bread is the ultimate test of a bakery

September 18, 2023 • In a world of everything-bagel seasoning and Instagrammable foods, I refuse to stray from the humble unadulterated bagel.

How I learned that creativity and vulnerability go hand in hand

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How I learned that creativity and vulnerability go hand in hand

September 5, 2023 • I often call Julia Cameron, the luminary behind The Artist's Way, my fairy godmother. Her philosophy has helped me understand that the ability to be artistic comes more naturally than one would think.

Anime can invite you into worlds you didn't know before

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Anime can invite you into worlds you didn't know before

August 21, 2023 • Cartoons like My Neighbor Totoro and Dragon Ball Z introduced me to anime — and started an ongoing love for the artform and its stories that explore what it means to be human.

Dun dun — done! Why watching 'Law & Order' clips on YouTube is oddly satisfying

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Dun dun — done! Why watching 'Law & Order' clips on YouTube is oddly satisfying

August 4, 2023 • These slimmed-down episodes are perfect for attention spans shortened by TikTok. I don't need to see the whole story — not even how it ends — as long as the conveyor belt of clips keeps rolling.

How photographing action figures healed my inner child

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How photographing action figures healed my inner child

July 23, 2023 • What started as a childhood fascination has developed into a photographic project where I explore identity and Blackness through the characters I portray.

Savor your coffee; someone probably lost sleep over it

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Savor your coffee; someone probably lost sleep over it

July 9, 2023 • When I get up and make my first cup of coffee, I do it like performing a sacred ritual. I know that those beans traveled far, and were cared for.

Fake stats, real nostalgia: Bonding with my dad through simulation baseball

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Fake stats, real nostalgia: Bonding with my dad through simulation baseball

June 16, 2023 • The real magic of simulation baseball is that it gives me and my dad something to take seriously that isn't actually serious. The games don't matter, but who you play them with really does.

The Stanley Cup Final is here. Here's why hockey fans are the real MVPs

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The Stanley Cup Final is here. Here's why hockey fans are the real MVPs

June 2, 2023 • Despite not playing hockey, I learned that fan participation is equally important to the game. We have the ability to uplift our team through our energy and engagement.

Food blogging reminds me of what I'm capable of and how my heritage is my own

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Food blogging reminds me of what I'm capable of and how my heritage is my own

May 20, 2023 • I started my Vietnamese cooking blog to preserve my family's recipes. It taught me that heritage is about mixing what I've been taught with my own experiences, and cooking up something entirely new.

Golf allows me to pursue perfection, all while building a community

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Golf allows me to pursue perfection, all while building a community

May 8, 2023 • The sense of community I've regained with the game of golf during the pandemic is more than I could've ever imagined.

Embracing the primal, letting it out and letting go at music festivals

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Embracing the primal, letting it out and letting go at music festivals

April 22, 2023 • Music festivals like Coachella are a spectrum of taste and discovery, allowing fans to experience their favorite artists and introducing them to new ones.

Clouds remind me that magical things in life can come out of nowhere

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Tamar Charney

Clouds remind me that magical things in life can come out of nowhere

April 17, 2023 • Much like clouds, we are all shifting and changing, solid one moment only to dissolve in the next. And who knows what form our lives will take next?

A love letter to movie trailers and the joy of shared anticipation

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A love letter to movie trailers and the joy of shared anticipation

April 10, 2023 • Whether it is to revisit a beloved movie or to build excitement for an upcoming project, movie trailers are truly an underappreciated art form.

An ode to playlists, the perfect kind of sonic diary

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An ode to playlists, the perfect kind of sonic diary

April 3, 2023 • Listening to old playlists triggers more complicated emotions than looking at old journals; instead of reading stories told from my perspective, I'm hearing music for what it was and always has been.

An ode to March Madness, where you can always expect the unexpected

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An ode to March Madness, where you can always expect the unexpected

March 14, 2023 • As a former college basketball player, I know firsthand how hard the players work to stay in the tournament for as long as possible. Here's why you should fill out a March Madness bracket this season.

Weaving is how I ground myself, and make something beautiful at the same time

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Natalie Escobar

Weaving is how I ground myself, and make something beautiful at the same time

March 6, 2023 • What started off as an impulse-driven hobby at the start of the pandemic has turned into the closest thing to an artistic practice that I've ever had.

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