B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Krokodyle w słonej wodzie The salt lake holds hundreds of American crocodiles, an island of rare iguanas, and the memory of ten years... Audio
- Jezioro poniżej poziomu morza Polly finds the largest lake in the Caribbean, saltier than the ocean, lying in a valley lower than the sea. Audio
- Woda, która stała się twarda In the workshops of Barahona the rough rock is cut open, and inside is a blue found in only one place on... Audio
- Idź pod prąd, a go znajdziesz The blue stone came down the river, not out of the sea. Polly follows it up into the mountains. Audio
- Osiem kilometrów, na których nic nie ma Polly finds an empty protected bay at the far corner of the country, then flies home over the coffee... Audio
- Wzgórze pełne dziur The blue stone is dug out entirely by hand, because a machine would break it. Audio
- Droga, na której brakuje miejsca Polly arrives in the southwest of the Dominican Republic, where the mountains meet the sea, and finds one... Audio
- Obiad ugotowany przez wulkan On a green island in the Azores, cooks lower a pot into a hot hole in the ground and let the earth slowly... Audio
- Zamek, w którym król prawie nie mieszkał A Bavarian king built a fairy-tale castle on an alpine crag, slept there only a handful of nights, and left... Audio
- Spacer po dnie morza Twice a day the North Sea pulls back for kilometres, and people walk barefoot across the bare seabed before... Audio
- Dlaczego twój telefon wyłącza się na mrozie Your phone shows forty percent battery, then dies in the snow. The battery is not empty. It is cold, and... Audio
- Miasto, które odkopało rzekę For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... Audio
- Dziesięć kilometrów w górze Passenger planes cruise about ten kilometres above the ground. That number is not random: it is where the... Audio
- Ostatni pociąg In Tokyo, the trains stop around midnight. Tomas learns this five minutes too late, and discovers where the... Audio
- Starożytni ludzie doskonale radzili sobie w dżungli Scientists once thought ancient humans avoided rainforests. New evidence from West Africa says they thrived... Audio
- Dlaczego miód sprzed trzech tysięcy lat wciąż nadaje się do jedzenia Honey jars from Egyptian tombs three thousand years old are still edible. The chemistry behind a food that... Audio
- Mecz tenisa, który trwał trzy dni The longest tennis match ever played: Isner vs. Mahut, Wimbledon 2010, eleven hours, three days, a final... Audio
- Ośmiornica, która otworzyła zamek An octopus called Inky escaped his aquarium tank at night through a drain pipe, and what it reveals about... Audio
- Wyścig, w którym ser zawsze wygrywa Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- Dwa zupełnie nowe zwierzęta, każde wielkości paznokcia Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Dzień, w którym prawdziwy robak zepsuł komputer In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- Krewetka ze słońcem w szczypcach A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- Dom podzielony między dwa kraje In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- Jedna kawiarnia, dwa kraje In one small town, the border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs straight through streets, houses and... Audio
- Twoje wiadomości podróżują pod wodą Almost everything you send across an ocean travels through cables lying on the sea floor, not through... Audio
- Plaża, która świeci na niebiesko w nocy On some warm coasts, the sea lights up electric blue when you touch it. The light comes from billions of... Audio
- Hotel, który porusza się, gdy śpisz On a European night train, you fall asleep in one country and wake up in another, with the Alps outside... Audio
- Wojsko, które przegrało z ptakami In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
- Szympansy mają akcenty A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls found that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Internet jest pod wodą Almost all international internet traffic travels along cables lying on the sea floor, which break... Audio
- Zwierzę, które robi sześciany Wombats are the only known animal to produce cube shaped droppings, and the corners are formed by uneven... Audio
- Miasteczko, które mieszka w jednym budynku Almost every resident of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building reached through a... Audio
- Czego ogień nigdy nie zabrał Polly takes one last high look at Kanazawa, waits out the rain from the sea, and leaves a city that kept... Audio
- Lampiony na pracującej ulicy In Higashi Chaya, Polly finds a lantern-lit street of wooden teahouses that still works today, and a shop... Audio
- Kuchnia o pierwszym świetle Before dawn at Omicho market, Polly sees fish laid out on ice in a market three hundred years old, and... Audio
- Bite, aż prawie go nie ma In a gold leaf workshop, Polly learns that Kanazawa makes almost all of Japan's gold leaf, and that a coin... Audio
- Sześć rzeczy, którymi ogród powinien być In Kenrokuen, Polly watches koi in a famous pond and learns how gardeners rig cones of rope over the pines... Audio
- Białe dachy i długie mury At Kanazawa Castle, Polly walks the long stone walls and finds roofs made of lead, weathered white, that... Audio
- Miasto, które ocalało Polly arrives in Kanazawa, a city between the sea and the mountains, and finds an old wooden centre that... Audio
- Dziesięć tysięcy sportowców, jeden wieczór otwarcia The 2026 Asian Games, hosted jointly by Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, bring together roughly ten thousand... Audio
- Bank, który przyjmuje tylko ser An Italian bank keeps a vault holding more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Ta liczba baterii to zgadywanie A phone's battery percentage is not a direct measurement, but an estimate calculated from voltage and... Audio
- Ta plaża jest zrobiona ze śmieci A sparkling beach in Northern California is made entirely of old dumped glass, smoothed into colorful... Audio
- W tym budynku nie ma czwartego piętra In much of East Asia, elevators skip the number four entirely, because it sounds exactly like the word for... Audio
- Ramię, które potrafi smakować Octopus suckers contain special receptors that let an arm taste whatever it touches, even in total darkness. Audio
- Największa wypłata w historii lekkoatletyki A brand new athletics championship this month paid its winners more than the sport has ever offered before. Audio
- Uczenie komputera mowy wielorybów Researchers are using artificial intelligence to search for real structure inside the clicking patterns of... Audio
- Powolne bicie serca drzew Laser scans at night revealed that trees pulse gently every few hours, possibly pumping water through their... Audio
- Kwiaty o trzeciej nad ranem At three in the morning, Bangkok's biggest flower market is more awake than midday, and it never really... Audio
- Krąg i poranny statek On her last evening, Polly finds an ancient stone circle raised over four thousand years ago and sits... Audio
- Ziarno dziewięćdziesięciu dni At an old water mill, Polly learns how a fast-ripening ancient barley became Orkney's daily bread and its... Audio
- Zgromadzenie na skałach At a chapel built by prisoners of war from two metal huts, an islander tells Polly how careful, beautiful... Audio
- Zbudowane z tego, co mieli Polly finds a huge grey seal colony gathering on Orkney's rocks just before pupping season begins. Audio
- Wioska pod sztormem In a small workshop, Polly watches the straw-backed Orkney chair take shape, a design born from having no... Audio
- Krzesło przy ogniu A storm-uncovered mound turns out to be a five-thousand-year-old stone village, older than Stonehenge and... Audio
- Poranny statek przybija Polly arrives over a windy, treeless group of islands and learns that ordinary green fields hide thousands... Audio
- Mgła zamyka się za nią On her last afternoon, Polly flies high over the island one more time before fog rolls in and hides it... Audio
- Wioska podłączona do wulkanu Polly finds the same underground heat that cooked lunch also fills a giant public pool and warms homes,... Audio
- Kolacja zakopana o świcie Polly watches a cook lower sealed pots into holes heated only by the volcano below, where dinner cooks for... Audio
- Jeden krater, dwa kolory Polly finds one huge old crater holding two lakes side by side, one blue and one green, joined underneath... Audio
- Ptak, którego dwukrotnie uznano za straconego Polly searches an old laurel forest for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird found only here, once thought... Audio
- Ostatnie dwa ogrody Europy Polly finds one of only two working tea plantations left in Europe, started after disease wiped out the... Audio
- Dziewięć wysp, trzy płyty Polly arrives over São Miguel, the largest of the nine Azores islands, and learns that three tectonic... Audio
- Ten ptak śpi w locie Frigatebirds stay in the air for days over open ocean, and researchers put recorders on their heads to find... Audio
- Obiad, który je cały kraj In the Dominican Republic the main meal lands at midday, it is almost always the same three things, and the... Audio
- Twoja mapa myliłaby się już w porze obiadu Satellite clocks tick faster than clocks on the ground, and if nobody corrected for it your phone would... Audio
- Świecisz. Nikt tego nie widzi. Human skin gives off a faint light all day long, and a Japanese team photographed it in a sealed dark room. Audio
- Ten błękit istnieje tylko w jednym miejscu A stony beach in the Dominican southwest, one pebble that is blue all the way through, and the single... Audio
- Polly jedzie autobusem Polly boards the bus downtown for the first time, with a patient capybara at the wheel and one nervous... Audio
- Polly pyta o drogę Polly gets lost looking for the library and learns that asking is faster than wandering. Audio
- Polly zamawia kawę Polly finds a corner cafe, orders a coffee with milk, discovers churros, and stays for a while by the window. Audio
- Polly na targu Berta shows Polly the neighborhood market. Polly asks about an unfamiliar fruit, buys apples, and learns... Audio
- Polly poznaje kogoś Polly arrives on a new street, meets Berta the bear over the garden fence, and they agree to meet again at... Audio
- Tysiąc dziewięćset sześćdziesiąt Polly studies a photograph of Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, the first humans to reach the bottom of the... Audio
- Władywostok Polly arrives in Vladivostok at the end of the 9,289-kilometre Trans-Siberian, stretches her wings, and... Audio
- Amur Polly reaches Khabarovsk on the sixth day of the Trans-Siberian, sees the Amur River bordering China, and... Audio
- Jezioro Bajkał Polly spends the fifth day of the Trans-Siberian running along Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest lake on... Audio
- Strefy czasowe Polly explores the dining car on the fourth day, learning that the whole train runs on Moscow time across... Audio
- Przekraczając Ural Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the dividing line between Europe and Asia, on the third day of the... Audio
- Brzozowe Lasy Polly wakes up on the second morning of the Trans-Siberian, watching the birch forests of European Russia.... Audio
- Dworzec Jarosławski Polly boards the Rossiya at Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station to begin the 9,289-kilometre, seven-day... Audio
- Pożegnanie z Makaronem Polly says goodbye to Pasta the octopus and flies out of Naples toward her next destination. Audio
- Redaktor Sama Siebie Polly learns that octopuses edit their own RNA in real time, building a brain that is different in each... Audio
- Pizza i Długi Obiad Polly has the long Italian lunch with Chiara at a Neapolitan pizzeria, learning the protected rules of... Audio
- Skóra, która widzi Polly watches Pasta find food under a coloured plate even though octopuses are colour-blind through their... Audio
- Ciało, które myśli Polly watches Pasta solve a maze with two arms working independently. She learns that two thirds of an... Audio
- Słoik Polly watches Pasta open a screw-top jar to catch a crab, learning that octopus arms taste what they touch... Audio
- Zatoka Neapolitańska Polly arrives in Naples and is welcomed into the world's oldest marine biology institute, where she meets a... Audio
- Opuszczając Dolinę Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas and flies west out of Yosemite, watching a peregrine hunt swifts on her... Audio
- Droga Mleczna nad Glacier Point Polly watches sunset from Glacier Point and stays for the Milky Way, looking through a park astronomer's... Audio
- Półkopuła Polly rides thermals up the 1,500-metre north face of Half Dome with a flock of swifts, reaches the summit,... Audio
- Sokół Nurkujący Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive from El Capitan, learning how the falcon's third eyelid and... Audio
- Sekwoja Polly visits Mariposa Grove and perches on the Grizzly Giant, a giant sequoia nearly 3,000 years old,... Audio
- Jazda z leśniczym Tomasem Polly spends a morning in Ranger Tomas's truck, learning how he tracks bear feeding in wildflower meadows... Audio
- Nad Doliną Polly arrives at Yosemite Valley from the air, takes in its U-shaped glacial geology, watches climbers on... Audio
- Niedzielna Paella An adult granddaughter visits home and finds her grandfather hasn't forgotten anything yet. Audio
- Pusty Kubek First day at a new office, a small lesson about asking before assuming. Audio
- Numer czterdzieści siedem A small injury, an old magazine, and a waiting room that teaches patience. Audio
- Pociąg do Granady An overheard phone call on the train turns a long trip into a kind of company. Audio
- Zła Księgarnia A simple coffee order leads to a strange conversation about a bookshop that doesn't exist anymore. Audio
- Zagubiona w Lizbonie A wrong turn on a steep street becomes the best part of the trip. Audio
- Pokój 304 z Widokiem A late check-in turns into a small gift when the hotel runs out of rooms on the lower floors. Audio
- Stolik dla jednej osoby A traveler eats alone in Madrid and discovers the waiter is the real star of the meal. Audio
- Alchemiczne Połączenie Polly and Václav discover Prague is a vast astronomical instrument with hidden components scattered across... Audio