Actuality Podcast
1) A note about "Actuality"
We are fondly wrapping up production of our podcast Actuality, which was a joint venture between Marketplace and Quartz. The idea for a co-produced podcast came from a shared sensibility around coveri...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Male Contraception
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 need one. We found out why Big Pharma gave up on a male pill, ...Show More
3) UnAmerican Football
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 with U.S. players Crystal Dunn and Matt Besler to figure ou...Show More
4) Cannabiz
They said it couldn't be done: Ending the American war on marijuana. This week, Actuality tells the ugly truth about cannabis prohibition and peeks at the green shoots of the nascent legal weed indust...Show More
5) Museums: Wherefore contemporary art thou?
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 and learn how this bubbling private market is changing stai...Show More
6) A machine to save the world
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 ever deliver? Then: the strange world of cold fusion, the peop...Show More
7) Batman v Hollywood
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 would never succeed. More than a dozen big-budget superhero...Show More
8) Space Internet
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 SpaceX think a global swarm of satellites is the answer. The i...Show More
9) Robot Tastemakers
"Actuality" visits Spotify to look into the algorithmic DJs that soundtrack our lives.
10) Smuggler’s Morgue
Quartz and Marketplace go into the world of animal trafficking with this episode of Actuality