Actuality

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Actuality episodes

December 12, 2015 What's a deadline?
This week, Actuality is mostly AWOL, but we bring news of next week's very special end-of-year episode.
2 min
November 27, 2015 Fear Fast Fashion
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 the true cost of the clothes — including some surprisingly bad news for the environment. Plus, bitter cats.
21 min
November 26, 2015 Thanksgiving in the Jungle
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 await asylum, and a reporter was surprised to learn her own family's refugee story.
12 min
November 13, 2015 Grin and Bear It
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 rogue banker reappears after 35 years on the lam.
24 min
October 30, 2015 2015: A Trash Odyssey
This week, Actuality goes orbital and finds it's quite a mess. Satellites are dodging space trash, and there's business opportunity in cleaning up — but no sexy space garbage trucks yet. Plus, a mysterious piece of space trash is coming back to earth.
28 min
October 16, 2015 Gimme Shelter
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 have more ambitious plans to help those left behind when the rent is too high. Plus, a miracle exercise pill.
23 min
October 02, 2015 Everest Industrial Complex
This week, Actuality meets two survivors of the deadly avalanche that struck Mt. Everest in April, before making our own ascent of the Everest Industrial Complex. Plus, a flying bag of marijuana destroys a dog house.
27 min
September 18, 2015 Big Broccoli
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 unexpected consequences may have more to do with the DOJ than GMOs. Plus, the Blob invades the Pacific.
27 min
September 04, 2015 Sonification
This week, Actuality plugs into the weird world of sonification — making data into sound. Pythagoras tried to do it with cosmic spheres. Today, sonification pioneers are making music from climate change and cheeseburger data. Plus, can you be allergic to Wi-Fi, and is that a disability?
19 min
August 21, 2015 Undocumented
This week, Actuality considers Donald Trump's plans for immigration reform and finds them wanting. And do U.S. farms need more immigrant labor, or do they just need to pay higher wages? Plus, the neuroscience of long-distance Turkish whistling.
22 min

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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-Achour and Tim…