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From rapping to raising goats, you've got some wonderful hobbies

We asked NPR readers and listeners to share what they're really into and why it brings them joy. If you need a new hobby, here are a few unconventional ideas.

U.S. gymnast Jade Carey competes during the women's floor exercise final on Monday at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

U.S. Gymnast Jade Carey Takes Gold In The Olympic Floor Exercise Final

The 21-year-old from Arizona pulls off a complicated tumbling routine with a high degree of difficulty, earning her first Olympic medal.

A teacher walks through an empty classroom at Hazelwood Elementary School in Louisville, Ky., on Jan. 11.

How social-emotional learning became a target for Ron DeSantis and conservatives

Florida officials recently rejected a slew of math textbooks, claiming they included "prohibited topics." Journalist Dana Goldstein theorizes the objections related to social-emotional learning.

In this screengrab from police bodycam footage shown in court on Dec. 10 in the trial of Kim Potter, the Brooklyn Center police officer reacts after the April 11 traffic stop in which Daunte Wright was fatally shot.

Kim Potter is found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright

The former Minnesota police officer mistakenly drew her firearm instead of her Taser when she fatally shot the 20-year-old Black man during a traffic stop in April.

Palù del Fersina's Mayor Franco Moar stands outside the town hall. The northern Italian village of 160 people is one of 21 villages across Italy that has been granted $20 million to combat population loss and boost the local economy. Palù del Fersina is one of three villages in the northern Trentino region where locals speak the Mòcheno language.

Italy is spending hundreds of millions to save dying villages. Will it work?

Using pandemic recovery funds from the European Union, Italy is trying to bring back one dying village in each of its regions. The villages will each get $20 million.

Undated photo of families between the U.S. and Mexico border is captured above. In 2011 Border Patrol partially reopened Friendship Park, allowing up to 25 people at a time to visit with friends and families across the international boundary. This vision of friendship between the people of both nations will be extinguished with the closure of Friendship Park.

New Biden border wall plans would put an end to Friendship Park

The iconic park in the San Diego borderlands was the only way many cross-border families were able to see each other.

Iowa officials closed the beach at Lake of Three Fires State Park in Taylor County last week, after an infection by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba was confirmed in a swimmer at the park.

5 things to know about the brain-eating amoeba that infected a swimmer in Iowa

Its name alone is terrifying. But infections in humans are both rare and devastating. Here are five things to know about the microscopic brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri.

Chinese astronaut Ye Guangfu sits outside the return capsule of the Shenzhou-13 space mission after landing at the Dongfeng landing site in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Saturday.

3 Chinese astronauts return to Earth after 6 months in space

The astronauts landed in the Gobi desert after six months aboard their country's newest orbital station. During the mission, astronaut Wang Yaping carried out the first spacewalk by a Chinese woman.

Jarvis Jones and John Knight help distribute free bottled water at the Sykes Park Community Center in Jackson, Mississippi.

Avoiding the tap water in Jackson, Miss., has been a way of life for decades

Residents accuse the largely white state government of neglecting the needs of a city that's 82% Black. White flight in the 1970s devastated the tax base, posing a major challenge to any solution.

Surgical instruments used in a kidney transplant in 2016. The agency that oversees organ allocation, the United Network for Organ Sharing, is under scrutiny after a report documented loss and waste of donated organs, often because of problems transporting the organs.

Transplant agency is criticized for donor organs arriving late, damaged or diseased

A probe found troubling lapses in the country's organ transplant system. Blood types mismatched, diseased organs accidentally transplanted and donor organs lost or damaged in transit.

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