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Actuality explores the inner workings of the new global economy. Brought to you by Marketplace® and Quartz, it’s a podcast that combines the best of our economic smarts. Hosts Sabri Ben-Acho...
They said it couldn't be done: The "male pill." Actuality asks why men haven't seen a new reversible contraceptive in centuries—and if we ne...
They said it couldn't be done: Soccer makes it in America. Actuality can't turn on the TV without seeing a soccer game — what gives? We talk...
They said it couldn't be done: Ending the American war on marijuana. This week, Actuality tells the ugly truth about cannabis prohibition an...
They said it couldn't be done: New art in old museums. Actuality visits an auction house to see a billion dollars of art sold in just a week...
They said it couldn't be done: Nuclear fusion. We visit scientists building a clean power plant that's hotter than the sun — but can they ev...
They said it couldn't be done: Making superheroes into movie stars. Forty years ago, Hollywood told 27-year-old Michael Uslan a Batman movie...
They said it couldn't be done: Internet in space. The dream of a totally connected world is still out of reach. Companies like OneWeb and Sp...
They said it couldn't be done: Teaching robots good taste. "Actuality" visits Spotify, where algorithms tell 75 million users what to listen...
This week, Actuality visits a lab at the front line of the fight against a peculiar crime — animal trafficking. The global black market for...
This week, Actuality just happens to stop by your house with a helping of holiday cheer, a glass of eggnog and some special guests armed wit...
This week, Actuality is mostly AWOL, but we bring news of next week's very special end-of-year episode.
This week, Actuality slips into some fast fashion and learns how it pushes your brain's buttons to make you buy. But the trick means hiding...
In a holiday bonus episode, Actuality gets grateful after a visit to a refugee camp in France where migrants from the Middle East and Africa...
This week, Actuality pretends we’re happy! We talk about people paid to put a smile on, and the toll that emotional labor takes. Plus, a rog...
This week, Actuality goes orbital and finds it's quite a mess. Satellites are dodging space trash, and there's business opportunity in clean...
This week, Actuality examines a New York idealist's battle to win homeless people the right to shelter in the 1970s—and why modern reformers...
This week, Actuality meets two survivors of the deadly avalanche that struck Mt. Everest in April, before making our own ascent of the Evere...
This week, Actuality bites into Monsanto's plans for a new, super-healthy breed of broccoli and what it means for our food supply—but the un...
This week, Actuality plugs into the weird world of sonification — making data into sound. Pythagoras tried to do it with cosmic spheres. Tod...
This week, Actuality considers Donald Trump's plans for immigration reform and finds them wanting. And do U.S. farms need more immigrant lab...
This Week, Actuality gorges itself on caviar to understand why the supply chain behind a luxury good is more important than ever. Also, a se...
This week, Actuality stays up past our bedtime to meet a man who slept just 4.5 hours a night for an entire year — and thrived. Then, we get...
This week, Actuality scratches that itch with a trip to Key West, Florida, where the only prescription for an outbreak of dengue fever may b...
This week, Actuality slips on metallic jeggings to examine the dubious record of former American Apparel CEO Dov Charney, how jerk bosses th...
This week, Actuality goes to Cuba. We'll hear how the U.S. decision to re-open relations is affecting the island nation — in its music, its...
This week, China’s got island fever! Symptoms include building islands in seas claimed by other (irate) countries. Actuality looks at the la...
This week, Actuality watches movies for free. Digital piracy is simpler than ever, thanks to the torrenting app Popcorn Time. We talk to one...