B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Перегони, у яких завжди перемагає сир Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- Дві новознайдені тварини, кожна завбільшки з нігтик Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- День, коли справжній жук зламав комп'ютер In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- Креветка із сонцем усередині клешні A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- Будинок, розділений між двома країнами In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- Армія, яка програла птахам In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
- У шимпанзе є акценти A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls found that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Інтернет знаходиться під водою Almost all international internet traffic travels along cables lying on the sea floor, which break... Audio
- Тварина, яка робить кубики Wombats are the only known animal to produce cube shaped droppings, and the corners are formed by uneven... Audio
- Місто, яке живе в одному будинку Almost every resident of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building reached through a... Audio
- Цей птах спить під час польоту Frigatebirds stay in the air for days over open ocean, and researchers put recorders on their heads to find... Audio
- Обід, який їсть ціла країна In the Dominican Republic the main meal lands at midday, it is almost always the same three things, and the... Audio
- Твоя карта помилялася б уже до обіду Satellite clocks tick faster than clocks on the ground, and if nobody corrected for it your phone would... Audio
- Ти світишся. Ніхто цього не бачить. Human skin gives off a faint light all day long, and a Japanese team photographed it in a sealed dark room. Audio
- Цей синій колір існує лише в одному місці A stony beach in the Dominican southwest, one pebble that is blue all the way through, and the single... Audio
- Одна кав'ярня, дві країни In one small town, the border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs straight through streets, houses and... Audio
- Твої повідомлення подорожують під водою Almost everything you send across an ocean travels through cables lying on the sea floor, not through... Audio
- Пляж, який світиться синім вночі On some warm coasts, the sea lights up electric blue when you touch it. The light comes from billions of... Audio
- Готель, який рухається, поки ти спиш On a European night train, you fall asleep in one country and wake up in another, with the Alps outside... Audio
- Вечеря, приготована 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
- Замок, у якому король майже не жив A Bavarian king built a fairy-tale castle on an alpine crag, slept there only a handful of nights, and left... Audio
- Прогулянка морським дном Twice a day the North Sea pulls back for kilometres, and people walk barefoot across the bare seabed before... Audio
- Чому телефон розряджається на морозі Your phone shows forty percent battery, then dies in the snow. The battery is not empty. It is cold, and... Audio
- Місто, яке відкрило заховану річку For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... Audio
- Десять кілометрів угору Passenger planes cruise about ten kilometres above the ground. That number is not random: it is where the... Audio
- Останній потяг In Tokyo, the trains stop around midnight. Tomas learns this five minutes too late, and discovers where the... Audio
- Стародавні люди процвітали в тропічному лісі Scientists once thought ancient humans avoided rainforests. New evidence from West Africa says they thrived... Audio
- Чому тритисячолітній мед досі можна їсти Honey jars from Egyptian tombs three thousand years old are still edible. The chemistry behind a food that... Audio
- Тенісний матч, який тривав три дні The longest tennis match ever played: Isner vs. Mahut, Wimbledon 2010, eleven hours, three days, a final... Audio
- Восьминіг, який зламав замок An octopus called Inky escaped his aquarium tank at night through a drain pipe, and what it reveals about... Audio
- Рука, яка вміє куштувати Octopus suckers contain special receptors that let an arm taste whatever it touches, even in total darkness. Audio
- Найбільший гонорар в історії легкої атлетики A brand new athletics championship this month paid its winners more than the sport has ever offered before. Audio
- Як комп'ютер учать говорити по-китовому Researchers are using artificial intelligence to search for real structure inside the clicking patterns of... Audio
- Повільне серцебиття дерев Laser scans at night revealed that trees pulse gently every few hours, possibly pumping water through their... Audio
- Квіти о третій ночі At three in the morning, Bangkok's biggest flower market is more awake than midday, and it never really... Audio
- Коло і ранковий пором The Ring of Brodgar at dusk, then the small practical business of leaving an island, done in four sentences... Audio
- Дев'яностоденний ячмінь In a bar in Kirkwall, a flat dark bannock turns out to be the reason the islands were farmable at all. Audio
- Зібрання на шхерах Grey seals are hauling out on the low rocks before the pupping season, and the questions Polly has been... Audio
- Збудовано з того, що було On Lamb Holm, two army huts hold a chapel that prisoners of war made out of scrap, and the only honest... Audio
- Село під штормом At the Bay of Skaill, a guide with a carrying voice explains a village that a storm returned to the light... Audio
- Крісло біля вогню A guesthouse above the harbour, an argument about what counts as a quiet room, and a chair whose whole... Audio
- Пором заходить у гавань Polly lands at Stromness off the morning boat and works out, one question at a time, how a place with no... Audio
- Десять тисяч спортсменів, один вечір відкриття The 2026 Asian Games, hosted jointly by Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, bring together roughly ten thousand... Audio
- Банк, який приймає лише сир An Italian bank keeps a vault holding more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Відсоток батареї це здогадка A phone's battery percentage is not a direct measurement, but an estimate calculated from voltage and... Audio
- Цей пляж зроблений зі сміття A sparkling beach in Northern California is made entirely of old dumped glass, smoothed into colorful... Audio
- Ніде немає четвертого поверху In much of East Asia, elevators skip the number four entirely, because it sounds exactly like the word for... Audio
- Туман змикається за нею On her last afternoon, Polly flies high over the island one more time before fog rolls in and hides it... Audio
- Село, під'єднане до вулкана Polly finds the same underground heat that cooked lunch also fills a giant public pool and warms homes,... Audio
- Вечеря, закопана на світанку Polly watches a cook lower sealed pots into holes heated only by the volcano below, where dinner cooks for... Audio
- Один кратер, два кольори Polly finds one huge old crater holding two lakes side by side, one blue and one green, joined underneath... Audio
- Птах, якого двічі вважали втраченим Polly searches an old laurel forest for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird found only here, once thought... Audio
- Останні два сади Європи Polly finds one of only two working tea plantations left in Europe, started after disease wiped out the... Audio
- Дев'ять островів, три плити Polly arrives over São Miguel, the largest of the nine Azores islands, and learns that three tectonic... Audio
- Полі їде автобусом Polly boards the bus downtown for the first time, with a patient capybara at the wheel and one nervous... Audio
- Полі запитує дорогу Polly gets lost looking for the library and learns that asking is faster than wandering. Audio
- Полі замовляє каву Polly finds a corner cafe, orders a coffee with milk, discovers churros, and stays for a while by the window. Audio
- Полі на ринку Berta shows Polly the neighborhood market. Polly asks about an unfamiliar fruit, buys apples, and learns... Audio
- Полі знайомиться із сусідкою 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
- Часові пояси Polly explores the dining car on the fourth day, learning that the whole train runs on Moscow time across... Audio
- Перетин Уралу Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the dividing line between Europe and Asia, on the third day of the... Audio
- Березові ліси Polly wakes up on the second morning of the Trans-Siberian, watching the birch forests of European Russia.... Audio
- Ярославський вокзал Polly boards the Rossiya at Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station to begin the 9,289-kilometre, seven-day... Audio
- Прощавай, Паста Polly says goodbye to Pasta the octopus and flies out of Naples toward her next destination. Audio
- Редактор самого себе Polly learns that octopuses edit their own RNA in real time, building a brain that is different in each... Audio
- Піца і довгий обід Polly has the long Italian lunch with Chiara at a Neapolitan pizzeria, learning the protected rules of... Audio
- Шкіра, що бачить Polly watches Pasta find food under a coloured plate even though octopuses are colour-blind through their... Audio
- Тіло, що думає 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
- Неаполітанська затока Polly arrives in Naples and is welcomed into the world's oldest marine biology institute, where she meets a... Audio
- Залишаючи долину Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas and flies west out of Yosemite, watching a peregrine hunt swifts on her... Audio
- Чумацький Шлях над Глейшер-Пойнт Polly watches sunset from Glacier Point and stays for the Milky Way, looking through a park astronomer's... Audio
- Півкупол Polly rides thermals up the 1,500-metre north face of Half Dome with a flock of swifts, reaches the summit,... Audio
- Сокіл у піке Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive from El Capitan, learning how the falcon's third eyelid and... Audio
- Секвоя Polly visits Mariposa Grove and perches on the Grizzly Giant, a giant sequoia nearly 3,000 years old,... Audio
- Поїздка з рейнджером Томасом Polly spends a morning in Ranger Tomas's truck, learning how he tracks bear feeding in wildflower meadows... Audio
- Над долиною Polly arrives at Yosemite Valley from the air, takes in its U-shaped glacial geology, watches climbers on... Audio
- Неділя з паельєю An adult granddaughter visits home and finds her grandfather hasn't forgotten anything yet. Audio
- Порожня чашка First day at a new office, a small lesson about asking before assuming. Audio
- Номер сорок сім A small injury, an old magazine, and a waiting room that teaches patience. Audio
- Потяг до Гранади An overheard phone call on the train turns a long trip into a kind of company. Audio
- Неправильна книгарня A simple coffee order leads to a strange conversation about a bookshop that doesn't exist anymore. Audio
- Загубилася в Лісабоні A wrong turn on a steep street becomes the best part of the trip. Audio
- Кімната 304 з краєвидом A late check-in turns into a small gift when the hotel runs out of rooms on the lower floors. Audio
- Столик на одну особу A traveler eats alone in Madrid and discovers the waiter is the real star of the meal. Audio
- Столик для однієї A traveler eats alone in Madrid and discovers the waiter is the real star of the meal. Audio