Outlaws of international waters
Intrigue on the high seas. Misinformation before the upcoming election. And a situation report, but for academic papers.
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Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean
You’ve heard that pirates still exist, and that captains can perform weddings in international waters. But did you know unsanctioned surgeries and more are also taking place on the high seas? Ian Urbina is author of the book The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier. He spoke with Ross Reynolds about the book.
Austin on misinformation
With election season comes a ramping up of misinformation. KUOW’s Olympia correspondent Austin Jenkins is doing a series on the topic. Today’s installment is how birtherism came to Thurston County
The COVID-19 Lit Rep
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been plenty of explosive headlines about the novel coronavirus. A group of UW researchers at the Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness want to help you sift through the noise with the COVID-19 Literature Report, which is co-edited by Dr. Jennifer Ross.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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