The Record: Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Last week special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russians for using bots to interfere with the presidential election. What are bots, how do they work and why can't we seem to stop them? Sam Woolley of Oxford's Computational Propaganda Research Project gives us a Bots 101.

Also, imagine football minus the concussions. A couple of Seattle businesses are working on a solution to football's head injury problem. We'll talk with Quartz's Katherine Foley and Seattle P-I sports reporter Michael-Shawn Dugar.

Plus we'll celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year with food writer Hsiao-Ching Chou. She's just published a cookbook called Chinese Soul Food, and if you have any trouble with her recipes, she says you can text her for help.

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