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NPR (npr.org) 

Viking's Choice: The year in catharsis and calm

NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich turns us on to lesser known corners of music from 2024: blooming drone-folk, richly textured jazz, Somali garage-rock, medieval metal and a bittersweet farewell from a beloved Athens psych-pop band. You can find more adventurous music and mixtapes via Lars' newsletter, vikingschoice.org.

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Our 2025 pop culture resolutions

As a new year arrives, it's only natural to have some goals in mind: What you want to achieve, what heights you want to hit. Today, we make pop culture resolutions for 2025, and look back on last year's goals and assess our progress with brutal honesty.

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Asian Boxing 

Katsuya Yasuda announces retirement

Back in November Japanese fight fans got, arguably, the fight of the year as Shu Utsuki (15-1, 13) [宇津木秀] unified the OPBF title with the WBO Asia Pacific Lightweight titles, defeating Katsuya Yasuda (14-2, 9) [保田克也] in a bout that really summed up everything we love about the sport. It was exciting, it was evenly matched, it was action packed, dramatic and seemed like only a single shot could have resulted in a different outcome. It saw bo [...]

Playak 

Video: Online Sea Kayaking: Essential Skills—The Sweep 360

New video by KarenWoodard: A great exercise to develop your turning skills is the Sweep 360. Try to complete the tightest turn possible, only using your forward sweep stroke to complete the rotation. Though deceptively easy, practicing this manoeuvre will enhance your control and agility on the water. Pro Tip: Look over your shoulder in the direction you're traveling.

Listverse 

10 Shocking Tales of Bodies Found in Abandoned Houses

Bodies found in abandoned houses raise questions of identity, manner, and cause of death, as well as the reasons that they came to be in the houses in the first place. Unfortunately, the answers to some of these questions are never likely to be known. Those that are determined frequently point to misfortune, drugs, and […]

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Committee to Protect Journalists 

CPJ, RSF, IJF call for release of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala

Press freedom organizations and the organizers of the International Journalism Festival (IJF) called on Iran on Tuesday to release Italian journalist Cecilia Sala with immediate effect. Sala was arrested in Iran on December 19 and is being held in the notorious Evin prison. Iran confirmed her detention on December 30, when state news agency IRNA...