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Safe travels (or a patriotic staycation)

caption: Where will you be whilst watching the rocket's red glare?
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Where will you be whilst watching the rocket's red glare?

If you’re committed to leaving your house this holiday weekend, how can you be as safe as possible? Sound effects in the wild. And an account of disaster.

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How to travel safely during a pandemic

Here we are, on the eve of one of the most popular traveling holidays of the year. Are you going anywhere for the 4th of July? And if so, what’s the safest way to do it? Ross Reynolds spoke to Columbia University virologist Angie Rasmussen about how best to get out of dodge, and took your calls.

Artie Cronan Doodle and the joys of sound effects

Sound effects artist Curtis Takahashi creates pictures with sound for the live radio dramas at the Imagination Theater. And he brought the sounds of canine sleuth Sherlock Bones to life for us on KUOW.

John Mooalem, This is Chance

We’re in a slow-moving, desperately uncertain cataclysm. In Alaska’s catastrophic 1964 earthquake, the destruction was over in five minutes – before many had even processed what was happening. John Mooalem’s new book This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together follows Genie Chance, a radio reporter who stayed on air for 30 hours straight to help the community understand what they had just survived.

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