B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Крокодилы в солёной воде The salt lake holds hundreds of American crocodiles, an island of rare iguanas, and the memory of ten years... Audio
- Озеро, которое лежит ниже моря Polly finds the largest lake in the Caribbean, saltier than the ocean, lying in a valley lower than the sea. Audio
- Вода, которая стала твёрдой In the workshops of Barahona the rough rock is cut open, and inside is a blue found in only one place on... Audio
- Иди вверх по течению, и ты найдёшь его The blue stone came down the river, not out of the sea. Polly follows it up into the mountains. Audio
- Восемь километров, на которых ничего нет Polly finds an empty protected bay at the far corner of the country, then flies home over the coffee... Audio
- Холм, полный ям The blue stone is dug out entirely by hand, because a machine would break it. Audio
- Дорога, которой не хватает места Polly arrives in the southwest of the Dominican Republic, where the mountains meet the sea, and finds one... Audio
- Прибытие райдеров The riders arrive with jet skis and special boards, and everyone watches a sea that says tomorrow. Audio
- Семь юбок и серебряная рыба Polly rides the funicular down to town and meets gull ladies in seven skirts who dry fish in the sun. Audio
- Колесо ждёт весны Polly ends her week at Coney Island after summer, past a giant steel wheel built in nineteen twenty and a... Audio
- Гонка, в которой всегда побеждает сыр Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- Два совершенно новых животных размером с ноготь Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- День, когда настоящий жук сломал компьютер In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- Креветка с солнцем внутри клешни A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- Дом, разделенный между двумя странами In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- Одно кафе, две страны In one small town, the border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs straight through streets, houses and... Audio
- Пляж, который светится синим по ночам On some warm coasts, the sea lights up electric blue when you touch it. The light comes from billions of... Audio
- Твои сообщения путешествуют под водой Almost everything you send across an ocean travels through cables lying on the sea floor, not through... Audio
- Отель, который движется, пока ты спишь On a European night train, you fall asleep in one country and wake up in another, with the Alps outside... Audio
- Город, который открыл реку заново For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... Audio
- Обед, приготовленный вулканом On a green island in the Azores, cooks lower a pot into a hot hole in the ground and let the earth slowly... Audio
- Прогулка по дну моря Twice a day the North Sea pulls back for kilometres, and people walk barefoot across the bare seabed before... Audio
- Древние люди процветали в тропических лесах Scientists once thought ancient humans avoided rainforests. New evidence from West Africa says they thrived... Audio
- Почему телефон садится на морозе Your phone shows forty percent battery, then dies in the snow. The battery is not empty. It is cold, and... Audio
- Почему мёд, которому 3000 лет, всё ещё можно есть Honey jars from Egyptian tombs three thousand years old are still edible. The chemistry behind a food that... Audio
- Теннисный матч, который длился три дня The longest tennis match ever played: Isner vs. Mahut, Wimbledon 2010, eleven hours, three days, a final... Audio
- Осьминог, который взломал замок An octopus called Inky escaped his aquarium tank at night through a drain pipe, and what it reveals about... Audio
- Замок, в котором король почти не жил A Bavarian king built a fairy-tale castle on an alpine crag, slept there only a handful of nights, and left... Audio
- Десять километров вверх Passenger planes cruise about ten kilometres above the ground. That number is not random: it is where the... Audio
- Последний поезд In Tokyo, the trains stop around midnight. Tomas learns this five minutes too late, and discovers where the... Audio
- Армия, которая проиграла птицам In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
- У шимпанзе есть акценты A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls found that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Интернет лежит под водой Almost all international internet traffic travels along cables lying on the sea floor, which break... Audio
- Зверь, который делает кубики Wombats are the only known animal to produce cube shaped droppings, and the corners are formed by uneven... Audio
- Городок, который живёт в одном доме Almost every resident of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building reached through a... Audio
- То, что не забрал огонь Polly takes one last high look at Kanazawa, waits out the rain from the sea, and leaves a city that kept... Audio
- Фонари на рабочей улице In Higashi Chaya, Polly finds a lantern-lit street of wooden teahouses that still works today, and a shop... Audio
- Кухня на рассвете Before dawn at Omicho market, Polly sees fish laid out on ice in a market three hundred years old, and... Audio
- Куют, пока оно почти не исчезнет In a gold leaf workshop, Polly learns that Kanazawa makes almost all of Japan's gold leaf, and that a coin... Audio
- Шесть качеств настоящего сада In Kenrokuen, Polly watches koi in a famous pond and learns how gardeners rig cones of rope over the pines... Audio
- Белые крыши и длинные стены At Kanazawa Castle, Polly walks the long stone walls and finds roofs made of lead, weathered white, that... Audio
- Город, который уцелел Polly arrives in Kanazawa, a city between the sea and the mountains, and finds an old wooden centre that... Audio
- Десять тысяч спортсменов, один вечер открытия The 2026 Asian Games, hosted jointly by Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, bring together roughly ten thousand... Audio
- Банк, который принимает только сыр An Italian bank keeps a vault holding more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Этот процент батареи это догадка A phone's battery percentage is not a direct measurement, but an estimate calculated from voltage and... Audio
- Этот пляж сделан из мусора A sparkling beach in Northern California is made entirely of old dumped glass, smoothed into colorful... Audio
- В этом здании нет четвёртого этажа In much of East Asia, elevators skip the number four entirely, because it sounds exactly like the word for... Audio
- Рука, которая умеет пробовать на вкус Octopus suckers contain special receptors that let an arm taste whatever it touches, even in total darkness. Audio
- Самая большая зарплата в истории лёгкой атлетики A brand new athletics championship this month paid its winners more than the sport has ever offered before. Audio
- Учим компьютер говорить по-китовьи Researchers are using artificial intelligence to search for real structure inside the clicking patterns of... Audio
- Медленное сердцебиение деревьев Laser scans at night revealed that trees pulse gently every few hours, possibly pumping water through their... Audio
- Цветы в три часа ночи At three in the morning, Bangkok's biggest flower market is more awake than midday, and it never really... Audio
- Круг и утренний пароход On her last evening, Polly finds an ancient stone circle raised over four thousand years ago and sits... Audio
- Зерно девяноста дней At an old water mill, Polly learns how a fast-ripening ancient barley became Orkney's daily bread and its... Audio
- Сбор на шхерах At a chapel built by prisoners of war from two metal huts, an islander tells Polly how careful, beautiful... Audio
- Построено из того, что было Polly finds a huge grey seal colony gathering on Orkney's rocks just before pupping season begins. Audio
- Деревня под штормом In a small workshop, Polly watches the straw-backed Orkney chair take shape, a design born from having no... Audio
- Кресло у огня A storm-uncovered mound turns out to be a five-thousand-year-old stone village, older than Stonehenge and... Audio
- Утренний пароход приходит Polly arrives over a windy, treeless group of islands and learns that ordinary green fields hide thousands... Audio
- Туман закрывается за ней On her last afternoon, Polly flies high over the island one more time before fog rolls in and hides it... Audio
- Деревня, подключённая к вулкану Polly finds the same underground heat that cooked lunch also fills a giant public pool and warms homes,... Audio
- Ужин, закопанный на рассвете Polly watches a cook lower sealed pots into holes heated only by the volcano below, where dinner cooks for... Audio
- Один кратер, два цвета Polly finds one huge old crater holding two lakes side by side, one blue and one green, joined underneath... Audio
- Птица, которую дважды считали потерянной Polly searches an old laurel forest for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird found only here, once thought... Audio
- Последние два сада Европы Polly finds one of only two working tea plantations left in Europe, started after disease wiped out the... Audio
- Девять островов, три плиты Polly arrives over São Miguel, the largest of the nine Azores islands, and learns that three tectonic... Audio
- Эта птица спит на лету Frigatebirds stay in the air for days over open ocean, and researchers put recorders on their heads to find... Audio
- Обед, который ест целая страна In the Dominican Republic the main meal lands at midday, it is almost always the same three things, and the... Audio
- К обеду ваша карта была бы неверной Satellite clocks tick faster than clocks on the ground, and if nobody corrected for it your phone would... Audio
- Вы светитесь. Никто этого не видит. Human skin gives off a faint light all day long, and a Japanese team photographed it in a sealed dark room. Audio
- Эта синева существует только в одном месте A stony beach in the Dominican southwest, one pebble that is blue all the way through, and the single... Audio
- Полли едет на автобусе Polly boards the bus downtown for the first time, with a patient capybara at the wheel and one nervous... Audio
- Полли спрашивает дорогу Polly gets lost looking for the library and learns that asking is faster than wandering. Audio
- Полли заказывает кофе Polly finds a corner cafe, orders a coffee with milk, discovers churros, and stays for a while by the window. Audio
- Полли на рынке Berta shows Polly the neighborhood market. Polly asks about an unfamiliar fruit, buys apples, and learns... Audio
- Полли знакомится с соседкой Polly arrives on a new street, meets Berta the bear over the garden fence, and they agree to meet again at... Audio
- Владивосток Polly arrives in Vladivostok at the end of the 9,289-kilometre Trans-Siberian, stretches her wings, and... Audio
- Амур Polly reaches Khabarovsk on the sixth day of the Trans-Siberian, sees the Amur River bordering China, and... Audio
- Озеро Байкал Polly spends the fifth day of the Trans-Siberian running along Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest lake on... Audio
- Часовые пояса Polly explores the dining car on the fourth day, learning that the whole train runs on Moscow time across... Audio
- Пересечение Урала Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the dividing line between Europe and Asia, on the third day of the... Audio
- Берёзовые леса Polly wakes up on the second morning of the Trans-Siberian, watching the birch forests of European Russia.... Audio
- Ярославский вокзал Polly boards the Rossiya at Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station to begin the 9,289-kilometre, seven-day... Audio
- Прощай, Паста Polly says goodbye to Pasta the octopus and flies out of Naples toward her next destination. Audio
- Редактор самого себя Polly learns that octopuses edit their own RNA in real time, building a brain that is different in each... Audio
- Пицца и длинный обед Polly has the long Italian lunch with Chiara at a Neapolitan pizzeria, learning the protected rules of... Audio
- Кожа, которая видит Polly watches Pasta find food under a coloured plate even though octopuses are colour-blind through their... Audio
- Тело, которое думает Polly watches Pasta solve a maze with two arms working independently. She learns that two thirds of an... Audio
- Банка Polly watches Pasta open a screw-top jar to catch a crab, learning that octopus arms taste what they touch... Audio
- Неаполитанский залив Polly arrives in Naples and is welcomed into the world's oldest marine biology institute, where she meets a... Audio
- Покидая долину Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas and flies west out of Yosemite, watching a peregrine hunt swifts on her... Audio
- Млечный Путь над Глейшер-Пойнт Polly watches sunset from Glacier Point and stays for the Milky Way, looking through a park astronomer's... Audio
- Полкупол Polly rides thermals up the 1,500-metre north face of Half Dome with a flock of swifts, reaches the summit,... Audio
- Соколиный полет Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive from El Capitan, learning how the falcon's third eyelid and... Audio
- Секвойя Polly visits Mariposa Grove and perches on the Grizzly Giant, a giant sequoia nearly 3,000 years old,... Audio
- Поездка с рейнджером Томасом Polly spends a morning in Ranger Tomas's truck, learning how he tracks bear feeding in wildflower meadows... Audio
- Над долиной Polly arrives at Yosemite Valley from the air, takes in its U-shaped glacial geology, watches climbers on... Audio
- Воскресная паэлья An adult granddaughter visits home and finds her grandfather hasn't forgotten anything yet. Audio
- Пустая кружка First day at a new office, a small lesson about asking before assuming. Audio
- Номер сорок семь A small injury, an old magazine, and a waiting room that teaches patience. Audio
- Поезд в Гранаду An overheard phone call on the train turns a long trip into a kind of company. Audio
- Не тот книжный магазин A simple coffee order leads to a strange conversation about a bookshop that doesn't exist anymore. Audio
- Заблудилась в Лиссабоне A wrong turn on a steep street becomes the best part of the trip. Audio
- В номере 304 есть вид A late check-in turns into a small gift when the hotel runs out of rooms on the lower floors. Audio
- Столик на одного A traveler eats alone in Madrid and discovers the waiter is the real star of the meal. Audio
- Столик для одной A traveler eats alone in Madrid and discovers the waiter is the real star of the meal. Audio