B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Krak, ki zna okušati Octopus suckers contain special receptors that let an arm taste whatever it touches, even in total darkness. Audio
- Največji zaslužek v zgodovini atletike A brand new athletics championship this month paid its winners more than the sport has ever offered before. Audio
- Računalnik se uči kitovsko Researchers are using artificial intelligence to search for real structure inside the clicking patterns of... Audio
- Počasni srčni utrip dreves Laser scans at night revealed that trees pulse gently every few hours, possibly pumping water through their... Audio
- Cvetje ob treh zjutraj At three in the morning, Bangkok's biggest flower market is more awake than midday, and it never really... Audio
- Krog in jutranja ladja The Ring of Brodgar at dusk, then the small practical business of leaving an island, done in four sentences... Audio
- Devetdesetdnevno žito In a bar in Kirkwall, a flat dark bannock turns out to be the reason the islands were farmable at all. Audio
- Zbor na čereh Grey seals are hauling out on the low rocks before the pupping season, and the questions Polly has been... Audio
- Zgrajeno iz tega, kar so imeli On Lamb Holm, two army huts hold a chapel that prisoners of war made out of scrap, and the only honest... Audio
- Vas pod nevihto At the Bay of Skaill, a guide with a carrying voice explains a village that a storm returned to the light... Audio
- Stol ob ognju A guesthouse above the harbour, an argument about what counts as a quiet room, and a chair whose whole... Audio
- Ladja pripluje Polly lands at Stromness off the morning boat and works out, one question at a time, how a place with no... Audio
- Deset tisoč športnikov, en otvoritveni večer The 2026 Asian Games, hosted jointly by Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, bring together roughly ten thousand... Audio
- Banka, ki sprejema samo sir An Italian bank keeps a vault holding more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Odstotek baterije je samo ugibanje A phone's battery percentage is not a direct measurement, but an estimate calculated from voltage and... Audio
- Ta plaža je narejena iz smeti A sparkling beach in Northern California is made entirely of old dumped glass, smoothed into colorful... Audio
- Nikjer ni četrtega nadstropja In much of East Asia, elevators skip the number four entirely, because it sounds exactly like the word for... Audio
- Megla se za njo zapre On her last afternoon, Polly flies high over the island one more time before fog rolls in and hides it... Audio
- Vas, priklopljena na vulkan Polly finds the same underground heat that cooked lunch also fills a giant public pool and warms homes,... Audio
- Večerja, zakopana ob zori Polly watches a cook lower sealed pots into holes heated only by the volcano below, where dinner cooks for... Audio
- En krater, dve barvi Polly finds one huge old crater holding two lakes side by side, one blue and one green, joined underneath... Audio
- Ptica, ki so jo dvakrat imeli za izgubljeno Polly searches an old laurel forest for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird found only here, once thought... Audio
- Zadnja dva vrtova v Evropi Polly finds one of only two working tea plantations left in Europe, started after disease wiped out the... Audio
- Devet otokov, tri plošče Polly arrives over São Miguel, the largest of the nine Azores islands, and learns that three tectonic... Audio