Planet Money - Why People Do Bad Things
Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.
HTTP liveness
realSignal telemetry
4 families · 1 observed · observed only—edge
direct originserver
not reportedTranco rank
unranked
Analyst read
generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrativePlanet Money - Why People Do Bad Things's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 5 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.
Comparable set
curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity| Company | Basis | Overlap | Pulse | 30d Δ | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radiolab - Antibodies Part 1: CRISPReducation | similar | 100% | 10.0 | 0.0 | ■ inactive |
| Planet Money - Hard Work is Irrelevanteducation | similar | 100% | 8.0 | 0.0 | — unverified |
| This American Life - The Problem We All Live Withentertainment | tag-overlap | 100% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| Nature - Star Wars psychology, science myth-busting & more!entertainment | tag-overlap | 100% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| Software Engineering Daily - Teaching Inmates To Codeeducation | similar | 100% | 40.0 | +4.8 | ● live |
| Freakonomics - Is America's Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem?entertainment | tag-overlap | 83% | 8.0 | -32.0 | — unverified |
| Software Engineering Daily - Data Science with Jonathan Dinu and Ryan Orbaneducation | similar | 83% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| Multilanguage Morse Code Translatoreducation | similar | 83% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.
Structure
observed attributesFunding & team
not in sourceNo disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.