B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Kilpailu, jonka juusto voittaa aina Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- Kaksi aivan uutta eläintä, kumpikin kynnen kokoinen Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Päivä, jolloin oikea ötökkä rikkoi tietokoneen In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- Katkarapu, jolla on aurinko saksissaan A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- Talo, joka on jaettu kahden maan välillä In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- Armeija, joka hävisi linnuille In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
- Simpansseilla on murteita A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls found that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Internet on veden alla Almost all international internet traffic travels along cables lying on the sea floor, which break... Audio
- Eläin, joka tekee kuutioita Wombats are the only known animal to produce cube shaped droppings, and the corners are formed by uneven... Audio
- Kaupunki, joka asuu yhdessä rakennuksessa Almost every resident of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building reached through a... Audio
- Tämä lintu nukkuu lentäessään Frigatebirds stay in the air for days over open ocean, and researchers put recorders on their heads to find... Audio
- Lounas, jonka koko maa syö In the Dominican Republic the main meal lands at midday, it is almost always the same three things, and the... Audio
- Karttasi olisi väärässä jo lounasaikaan mennessä Satellite clocks tick faster than clocks on the ground, and if nobody corrected for it your phone would... Audio
- Sinä hohdat. Kukaan ei näe sitä. Human skin gives off a faint light all day long, and a Japanese team photographed it in a sealed dark room. Audio
- Tämä sininen on olemassa yhdessä paikassa A stony beach in the Dominican southwest, one pebble that is blue all the way through, and the single... Audio
- Yksi kahvila, kaksi maata In one small town, the border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs straight through streets, houses and... Audio
- Viestisi kulkevat veden alla Almost everything you send across an ocean travels through cables lying on the sea floor, not through... Audio
- Ranta, joka hehkuu sinisenä yöllä On some warm coasts, the sea lights up electric blue when you touch it. The light comes from billions of... Audio
- Hotelli, joka liikkuu sinun nukkuessasi On a European night train, you fall asleep in one country and wake up in another, with the Alps outside... Audio
- Taottu, kunnes sitä tuskin enää on In a gold leaf workshop, Polly learns that Kanazawa makes almost all of Japan's gold leaf, and that a coin... Audio
- Käsivarsi joka maistaa Octopus suckers contain special receptors that let an arm taste whatever it touches, even in total darkness. Audio
- Yleisurheilun suurin palkkio ikinä A brand new athletics championship this month paid its winners more than the sport has ever offered before. Audio
- Kone opettelee valaan kieltä Researchers are using artificial intelligence to search for real structure inside the clicking patterns of... Audio
- Puiden hidas sydämenlyönti Laser scans at night revealed that trees pulse gently every few hours, possibly pumping water through their... Audio
- Kukkia kolmelta yöllä At three in the morning, Bangkok's biggest flower market is more awake than midday, and it never really... Audio
- Kehä ja aamulaiva The Ring of Brodgar at dusk, then the small practical business of leaving an island, done in four sentences... Audio
- Yhdeksänkymmenen päivän vilja In a bar in Kirkwall, a flat dark bannock turns out to be the reason the islands were farmable at all. Audio
- Kokoontuminen luodoilla Grey seals are hauling out on the low rocks before the pupping season, and the questions Polly has been... Audio
- Rakennettu siitä mitä oli On Lamb Holm, two army huts hold a chapel that prisoners of war made out of scrap, and the only honest... Audio
- Kylä myrskyn alla At the Bay of Skaill, a guide with a carrying voice explains a village that a storm returned to the light... Audio
- Tuoli takan ääressä A guesthouse above the harbour, an argument about what counts as a quiet room, and a chair whose whole... Audio
- Laiva saapuu satamaan Polly lands at Stromness off the morning boat and works out, one question at a time, how a place with no... Audio
- Kymmenentuhatta urheilijaa, yksi avausilta The 2026 Asian Games, hosted jointly by Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, bring together roughly ten thousand... Audio
- Pankki, joka ottaa vain juustoa An Italian bank keeps a vault holding more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Akkuprosentti on pelkkä arvaus A phone's battery percentage is not a direct measurement, but an estimate calculated from voltage and... Audio
- Tämä ranta on tehty roskasta A sparkling beach in Northern California is made entirely of old dumped glass, smoothed into colorful... Audio
- Neljättä kerrosta ei ole missään In much of East Asia, elevators skip the number four entirely, because it sounds exactly like the word for... Audio
- Usva sulkeutuu hänen jälkeensä On her last afternoon, Polly flies high over the island one more time before fog rolls in and hides it... Audio
- Kylä, joka on kytketty tulivuoreen Polly finds the same underground heat that cooked lunch also fills a giant public pool and warms homes,... Audio
- Aamulla haudattu illallinen Polly watches a cook lower sealed pots into holes heated only by the volcano below, where dinner cooks for... Audio
- Yksi kraatteri, kaksi väriä Polly finds one huge old crater holding two lakes side by side, one blue and one green, joined underneath... Audio
- Lintu, joka menetettiin kahdesti Polly searches an old laurel forest for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird found only here, once thought... Audio
- Euroopan kaksi viimeistä puutarhaa Polly finds one of only two working tea plantations left in Europe, started after disease wiped out the... Audio
- Yhdeksän saarta, kolme laattaa Polly arrives over São Miguel, the largest of the nine Azores islands, and learns that three tectonic... Audio
- Lähtö aamun valossa Polly watches one last sunrise with Berta and follows the river out of town. Audio
- Paimen portilla Polly follows a flock of sheep, a shepherd and his big mastiff dog to the high meadows. Audio
- Joki joka kiertää kaupungin Polly has a slow day at the river and meets a fox at dusk. Audio
- Punaisten kallioiden maalatut eläimet Polly visits the red rocks in the forest and finds animal paintings that are thousands of years old. Audio
- Muuri joka kiipeää vuorelle Polly flies up the old wall to the watchtower and learns its thousand year story. Audio
- Berta ja nojaavat talot Berta, an old stone marten, shows Polly the crooked streets and a famous leaning house. Audio
- Kaupunki joen sylissä Polly follows a looping river and finds Albarracín, a small pink town in the hills of Spain. Audio
- Polly menee bussilla Polly boards the bus downtown for the first time, with a patient capybara at the wheel and one nervous... Audio
- Polly kysyy tietä Polly gets lost looking for the library and learns that asking is faster than wandering. Audio
- Polly tilaa kahvin Polly finds a corner cafe, orders a coffee with milk, discovers churros, and stays for a while by the window. Audio
- Polly torilla Berta shows Polly the neighborhood market. Polly asks about an unfamiliar fruit, buys apples, and learns... Audio
- Polly tapaa jonkun Polly arrives on a new street, meets Berta the bear over the garden fence, and they agree to meet again at... Audio
- Maailman Katto Polly climbs into the canopy, the bright top of the forest where most animals live and never touch the ground. Audio
- Lintukalliot Polly joins a city of seabirds, watches puffins fly underwater, and meets the arctic tern that chases... Audio
- Jää, jonka alla palaa tuli Polly lands on the largest glacier in Europe, finds a blue ice cave, and learns that volcanoes sleep... Audio
- Yhdysvallat etenee jatkoon kotikentällään As a host nation, the United States won its opening matches and advanced early to the knockout stage of the... Audio
- Pienin maa koskaan jalkapallon MM-kisoissa Curacao made history as the smallest nation ever to play at a World Cup, even after a heavy loss to Germany. Audio
- Kaupunki, joka kaivoi joen esiin For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... Audio
- Pienin saari suurimmalla näyttämöllä Curacao, a Caribbean island smaller than many cities, became the tiniest nation ever to reach a World Cup. Audio
- Avausottelu Aztecalla The World Cup came home to Mexico City, and the oldest stadium in the tournament shook for the very first... Audio
- Tulivuoren keittämä illallinen On a green island in the Azores, cooks lower a pot into a hot hole in the ground and let the earth slowly... Audio
- Kävely merenpohjalla Twice a day the North Sea pulls back for kilometres, and people walk barefoot across the bare seabed before... Audio
- Isäntämaat Marssivat Eteenpäin For the first time, three countries share a World Cup, and so far all three hosts are off to a flying start. Audio
- Muinaiset ihmiset menestyivät sademetsässä Scientists once thought ancient humans avoided rainforests. New evidence from West Africa says they thrived... Audio
- Miksi puhelimesi sammuu pakkasessa Your phone shows forty percent battery, then dies in the snow. The battery is not empty. It is cold, and... Audio
- Miksi 3 000 vuotta vanha hunaja on yhä syötävää Honey jars from Egyptian tombs three thousand years old are still edible. The chemistry behind a food that... Audio
- Tennisottelu, joka kesti kolme päivää The longest tennis match ever played: Isner vs. Mahut, Wimbledon 2010, eleven hours, three days, a final... Audio
- Mustekala, joka karkasi lukitusta säiliöstä An octopus called Inky escaped his aquarium tank at night through a drain pipe, and what it reveals about... Audio
- Linna, jossa kuningas tuskin asui A Bavarian king built a fairy-tale castle on an alpine crag, slept there only a handful of nights, and left... Audio
- Kymmenen kilometrin korkeudessa Passenger planes cruise about ten kilometres above the ground. That number is not random: it is where the... Audio
- Viimeinen juna In Tokyo, the trains stop around midnight. Tomas learns this five minutes too late, and discovers where the... Audio
- Uusi maa The ground opens in the south, and Polly watches melted rock make new land, then learns why the first moss... Audio
- Vladivostok Polly arrives in Vladivostok at the end of the 9,289-kilometre Trans-Siberian, stretches her wings, and... Audio
- Amur-joki Polly reaches Khabarovsk on the sixth day of the Trans-Siberian, sees the Amur River bordering China, and... Audio
- Baikaljärvi Polly spends the fifth day of the Trans-Siberian running along Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest lake on... Audio
- Aikavyöhykkeet Polly explores the dining car on the fourth day, learning that the whole train runs on Moscow time across... Audio
- Uralien ylitys Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the dividing line between Europe and Asia, on the third day of the... Audio
- Koivumetsät Polly wakes up on the second morning of the Trans-Siberian, watching the birch forests of European Russia.... Audio
- Jaroslavskin asema Polly boards the Rossiya at Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station to begin the 9,289-kilometre, seven-day... Audio
- Hyvästit Pastalle Polly says goodbye to Pasta the octopus and flies out of Naples toward her next destination. Audio
- Itseään Muokkaava Polly learns that octopuses edit their own RNA in real time, building a brain that is different in each... Audio
- Pizza ja pitkä lounas Polly has the long Italian lunch with Chiara at a Neapolitan pizzeria, learning the protected rules of... Audio
- Iho joka näkee Polly watches Pasta find food under a coloured plate even though octopuses are colour-blind through their... Audio
- Ajatteleva keho Polly watches Pasta solve a maze with two arms working independently. She learns that two thirds of an... Audio
- Purkin arvoitus Polly watches Pasta open a screw-top jar to catch a crab, learning that octopus arms taste what they touch... Audio
- Napolinlahti Polly arrives in Naples and is welcomed into the world's oldest marine biology institute, where she meets a... Audio
- Lähtö laaksosta Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas and flies west out of Yosemite, watching a peregrine hunt swifts on her... Audio
- Linnunrata Glacier Pointilla Polly watches sunset from Glacier Point and stays for the Milky Way, looking through a park astronomer's... Audio
- Puolikupoli Polly rides thermals up the 1,500-metre north face of Half Dome with a flock of swifts, reaches the summit,... Audio
- Sukeltava Muuttohaukka Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive from El Capitan, learning how the falcon's third eyelid and... Audio
- Sequoia Polly visits Mariposa Grove and perches on the Grizzly Giant, a giant sequoia nearly 3,000 years old,... Audio
- Ratsastus Vartija Tomasin Kanssa Polly spends a morning in Ranger Tomas's truck, learning how he tracks bear feeding in wildflower meadows... Audio
- Ylhäällä Laaksossa Polly arrives at Yosemite Valley from the air, takes in its U-shaped glacial geology, watches climbers on... Audio
- Sunnuntain Paella An adult granddaughter visits home and finds her grandfather hasn't forgotten anything yet. Audio
- Tyhjä Muki First day at a new office, a small lesson about asking before assuming. Audio
- Numero Neljäkymmentäseitsemän A small injury, an old magazine, and a waiting room that teaches patience. Audio
- Juna Granadaan An overheard phone call on the train turns a long trip into a kind of company. Audio
- Väärä kirjakauppa A simple coffee order leads to a strange conversation about a bookshop that doesn't exist anymore. Audio
- Eksyksissä Lissabonissa A wrong turn on a steep street becomes the best part of the trip. Audio
- Huoneessa 304 on näkymä A late check-in turns into a small gift when the hotel runs out of rooms on the lower floors. Audio
- Pöytä yhdelle A traveler eats alone in Madrid and discovers the waiter is the real star of the meal. Audio