B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- 통행료를 받아낸 다리 Polly walks the Brooklyn Bridge and learns how building it underwater left more than a hundred workers... Audio
- 온 나라가 함께 먹는 점심 In the Dominican Republic the main meal lands at midday, it is almost always the same three things, and the... Audio
- 당신의 지도는 점심때쯤이면 틀려 있을 것이다 Satellite clocks tick faster than clocks on the ground, and if nobody corrected for it your phone would... Audio
- 당신은 빛난다. 아무도 볼 수 없을 뿐. Human skin gives off a faint light all day long, and a Japanese team photographed it in a sealed dark room. Audio
- 이 파란색은 한 곳에만 있어요 A stony beach in the Dominican southwest, one pebble that is blue all the way through, and the single... Audio
- 카페 하나, 두 나라 In one small town, the border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs straight through streets, houses and... Audio
- 메시지는 바닷속을 지나간다 Almost everything you send across an ocean travels through cables lying on the sea floor, not through... Audio
- 밤에 파랗게 빛나는 해변 On some warm coasts, the sea lights up electric blue when you touch it. The light comes from billions of... Audio
- 잠든 사이 움직이는 호텔 On a European night train, you fall asleep in one country and wake up in another, with the Alps outside... Audio
- 화산이 요리하는 저녁 식사 On a green island in the Azores, cooks lower a pot into a hot hole in the ground and let the earth slowly... Audio
- 왕이 거의 살지 않은 성 A Bavarian king built a fairy-tale castle on an alpine crag, slept there only a handful of nights, and left... Audio
- 바다 밑바닥을 걷다 Twice a day the North Sea pulls back for kilometres, and people walk barefoot across the bare seabed before... Audio
- 추운 날씨에 휴대폰이 꺼지는 이유 Your phone shows forty percent battery, then dies in the snow. The battery is not empty. It is cold, and... Audio
- 강을 다시 드러낸 도시 For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... Audio
- 하늘 십 킬로미터 위 Passenger planes cruise about ten kilometres above the ground. That number is not random: it is where the... Audio
- 막차 In Tokyo, the trains stop around midnight. Tomas learns this five minutes too late, and discovers where the... Audio
- 고대 인류는 열대우림에서도 잘 살았어요 Scientists once thought ancient humans avoided rainforests. New evidence from West Africa says they thrived... Audio
- 삼천 년 전 꿀이 아직도 먹을 수 있는 이유 Honey jars from Egyptian tombs three thousand years old are still edible. The chemistry behind a food that... Audio
- 삼 일 동안 계속된 테니스 경기 The longest tennis match ever played: Isner vs. Mahut, Wimbledon 2010, eleven hours, three days, a final... Audio
- 자물쇠를 딴 문어 An octopus called Inky escaped his aquarium tank at night through a drain pipe, and what it reveals about... Audio
- 치즈가 항상 이기는 경주 Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- 손톱만 한 완전히 새로운 동물 두 종 Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- 진짜 벌레가 컴퓨터를 고장 낸 날 In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- 집게발 안에 태양을 품은 새우 A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- 두 나라로 나뉜 집 In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- 새에게 패배한 군대 In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
- 침팬지도 사투리를 쓴다 A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls found that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- 인터넷은 바닷속에 있다 Almost all international internet traffic travels along cables lying on the sea floor, which break... Audio
- 정육면체를 만드는 동물 Wombats are the only known animal to produce cube shaped droppings, and the corners are formed by uneven... Audio
- 한 건물 안에서 사는 마을 Almost every resident of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building reached through a... Audio
- 이 새는 날면서 잠을 잔다 Frigatebirds stay in the air for days over open ocean, and researchers put recorders on their heads to find... Audio
- 맛을 보는 팔 Octopus suckers contain special receptors that let an arm taste whatever it touches, even in total darkness. Audio
- 육상 역사상 가장 큰 상금 A brand new athletics championship this month paid its winners more than the sport has ever offered before. Audio
- 고래 말을 배우는 컴퓨터 Researchers are using artificial intelligence to search for real structure inside the clicking patterns of... Audio
- 나무의 느린 심장 박동 Laser scans at night revealed that trees pulse gently every few hours, possibly pumping water through their... Audio
- 새벽 세 시의 꽃 시장 At three in the morning, Bangkok's biggest flower market is more awake than midday, and it never really... Audio
- 돌의 원과 아침 배 The Ring of Brodgar at dusk, then the small practical business of leaving an island, done in four sentences... Audio
- 구십일 곡식 In a bar in Kirkwall, a flat dark bannock turns out to be the reason the islands were farmable at all. Audio
- 암초 위의 모임 Grey seals are hauling out on the low rocks before the pupping season, and the questions Polly has been... Audio
- 가진 것으로 지은 것 On Lamb Holm, two army huts hold a chapel that prisoners of war made out of scrap, and the only honest... Audio
- 폭풍 아래의 마을 At the Bay of Skaill, a guide with a carrying voice explains a village that a storm returned to the light... Audio
- 난롯가의 의자 A guesthouse above the harbour, an argument about what counts as a quiet room, and a chair whose whole... Audio
- 배가 들어오다 Polly lands at Stromness off the morning boat and works out, one question at a time, how a place with no... Audio
- 선수 만 명, 하나의 개막식 The 2026 Asian Games, hosted jointly by Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, bring together roughly ten thousand... Audio
- 치즈만 받는 은행 An Italian bank keeps a vault holding more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- 배터리 숫자는 추측이에요 A phone's battery percentage is not a direct measurement, but an estimate calculated from voltage and... Audio
- 이 해변은 쓰레기로 만들어졌다 A sparkling beach in Northern California is made entirely of old dumped glass, smoothed into colorful... Audio
- 어디에도 사 층이 없다 In much of East Asia, elevators skip the number four entirely, because it sounds exactly like the word for... Audio
- 안개가 그녀의 뒤를 닫는다 On her last afternoon, Polly flies high over the island one more time before fog rolls in and hides it... Audio
- 화산에 연결된 마을 Polly finds the same underground heat that cooked lunch also fills a giant public pool and warms homes,... Audio
- 새벽에 묻은 저녁밥 Polly watches a cook lower sealed pots into holes heated only by the volcano below, where dinner cooks for... Audio
- 하나의 분화구, 두 가지 색 Polly finds one huge old crater holding two lakes side by side, one blue and one green, joined underneath... Audio
- 두 번이나 사라진 줄 알았던 새 Polly searches an old laurel forest for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird found only here, once thought... Audio
- 유럽에 남은 마지막 두 정원 Polly finds one of only two working tea plantations left in Europe, started after disease wiped out the... Audio
- 아홉 개의 섬, 세 개의 판 Polly arrives over São Miguel, the largest of the nine Azores islands, and learns that three tectonic... Audio
- 폴리, 버스를 타다 Polly boards the bus downtown for the first time, with a patient capybara at the wheel and one nervous... Audio
- 폴리, 길을 묻다 Polly gets lost looking for the library and learns that asking is faster than wandering. Audio
- 폴리, 커피를 주문하다 Polly finds a corner cafe, orders a coffee with milk, discovers churros, and stays for a while by the window. Audio
- 폴리, 시장에 가다 Berta shows Polly the neighborhood market. Polly asks about an unfamiliar fruit, buys apples, and learns... Audio
- 폴리, 새 이웃을 만나다 Polly arrives on a new street, meets Berta the bear over the garden fence, and they agree to meet again at... Audio
- 블라디보스토크 Polly arrives in Vladivostok at the end of the 9,289-kilometre Trans-Siberian, stretches her wings, and... Audio
- 아무르강 Polly reaches Khabarovsk on the sixth day of the Trans-Siberian, sees the Amur River bordering China, and... Audio
- 바이칼 호수 Polly spends the fifth day of the Trans-Siberian running along Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest lake on... Audio
- 우랄산맥을 넘어서 Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the dividing line between Europe and Asia, on the third day of the... Audio
- 자작나무 숲 Polly wakes up on the second morning of the Trans-Siberian, watching the birch forests of European Russia.... Audio
- 야로슬랍스키 역 Polly boards the Rossiya at Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station to begin the 9,289-kilometre, seven-day... Audio
- 파스타에게 작별인사 Polly says goodbye to Pasta the octopus and flies out of Naples toward her next destination. Audio
- 스스로 편집하는 생명체 Polly learns that octopuses edit their own RNA in real time, building a brain that is different in each... Audio
- 피자와 긴 점심시간 Polly has the long Italian lunch with Chiara at a Neapolitan pizzeria, learning the protected rules of... Audio
- 보는 피부 Polly watches Pasta find food under a coloured plate even though octopuses are colour-blind through their... Audio
- 생각하는 몸 Polly watches Pasta solve a maze with two arms working independently. She learns that two thirds of an... Audio
- 나폴리 만 Polly arrives in Naples and is welcomed into the world's oldest marine biology institute, where she meets a... Audio
- 계곡을 떠나며 Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas and flies west out of Yosemite, watching a peregrine hunt swifts on her... Audio
- 은하수가 보이는 글레이셔 포인트 Polly watches sunset from Glacier Point and stays for the Milky Way, looking through a park astronomer's... Audio
- 하프 돔 Polly rides thermals up the 1,500-metre north face of Half Dome with a flock of swifts, reaches the summit,... Audio
- 다이빙 매 Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive from El Capitan, learning how the falcon's third eyelid and... Audio
- 세쿼이아 Polly visits Mariposa Grove and perches on the Grizzly Giant, a giant sequoia nearly 3,000 years old,... Audio
- 레인저 토마스와 함께하는 여정 Polly spends a morning in Ranger Tomas's truck, learning how he tracks bear feeding in wildflower meadows... Audio
- 계곡 위에서 Polly arrives at Yosemite Valley from the air, takes in its U-shaped glacial geology, watches climbers on... Audio
- 번호 사십칠 A small injury, an old magazine, and a waiting room that teaches patience. Audio
- 일요일 빠에야 An adult granddaughter visits home and finds her grandfather hasn't forgotten anything yet. Audio
- 빈 머그컵 First day at a new office, a small lesson about asking before assuming. Audio
- 그라나다행 기차 An overheard phone call on the train turns a long trip into a kind of company. Audio
- 잘못 찾은 서점 A simple coffee order leads to a strange conversation about a bookshop that doesn't exist anymore. Audio
- 리스본에서 길을 잃다 A wrong turn on a steep street becomes the best part of the trip. Audio
- 304호실의 풍경 A late check-in turns into a small gift when the hotel runs out of rooms on the lower floors. Audio
- 혼자만의 식탁 A traveler eats alone in Madrid and discovers the waiter is the real star of the meal. Audio