B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- Cuộc đua mà pho mát luôn thắng Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- Hai loài vật hoàn toàn mới, mỗi con chỉ bằng một móng tay Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- Ngày một con côn trùng thật làm hỏng máy tính In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- Con tôm mang mặt trời trong càng của nó A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- Ngôi nhà chia đôi giữa hai quốc gia In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- Đội quân đã thua trước một đàn chim In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
- Tinh tinh có giọng vùng miền A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls found that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- Internet nằm dưới đáy biển Almost all international internet traffic travels along cables lying on the sea floor, which break... Audio
- Loài vật tạo ra phân hình khối Wombats are the only known animal to produce cube shaped droppings, and the corners are formed by uneven... Audio
- Thị trấn sống trong một tòa nhà duy nhất Almost every resident of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building reached through a... Audio
- Loài chim này ngủ trong khi bay Frigatebirds stay in the air for days over open ocean, and researchers put recorders on their heads to find... Audio
- Bữa trưa mà cả một đất nước cùng ăn In the Dominican Republic the main meal lands at midday, it is almost always the same three things, and the... Audio
- Bản đồ của bạn sẽ sai trước giờ ăn trưa Satellite clocks tick faster than clocks on the ground, and if nobody corrected for it your phone would... Audio
- Bạn phát sáng. Không ai có thể nhìn thấy. Human skin gives off a faint light all day long, and a Japanese team photographed it in a sealed dark room. Audio
- Màu xanh này chỉ tồn tại ở một nơi A stony beach in the Dominican southwest, one pebble that is blue all the way through, and the single... Audio
- Một quán cà phê, hai quốc gia In one small town, the border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs straight through streets, houses and... Audio
- Tin nhắn của bạn đi dưới đáy biển Almost everything you send across an ocean travels through cables lying on the sea floor, not through... Audio
- Bãi biển phát sáng màu xanh vào ban đêm On some warm coasts, the sea lights up electric blue when you touch it. The light comes from billions of... Audio
- Khách sạn di chuyển trong khi bạn ngủ On a European night train, you fall asleep in one country and wake up in another, with the Alps outside... Audio
- Bữa tối được nấu bởi núi lửa On a green island in the Azores, cooks lower a pot into a hot hole in the ground and let the earth slowly... Audio
- Lâu đài mà vị vua hầu như chưa từng sống A Bavarian king built a fairy-tale castle on an alpine crag, slept there only a handful of nights, and left... Audio
- Đi bộ trên đáy biển Twice a day the North Sea pulls back for kilometres, and people walk barefoot across the bare seabed before... Audio
- Vì sao điện thoại của bạn hết pin trong trời lạnh Your phone shows forty percent battery, then dies in the snow. The battery is not empty. It is cold, and... Audio
- Thành phố đã khai quật lại một dòng sông For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... Audio
- Mười ki lô mét trên không Passenger planes cruise about ten kilometres above the ground. That number is not random: it is where the... Audio
- Chuyến tàu cuối cùng In Tokyo, the trains stop around midnight. Tomas learns this five minutes too late, and discovers where the... Audio
- Người cổ đại đã phát triển mạnh trong rừng nhiệt đới Scientists once thought ancient humans avoided rainforests. New evidence from West Africa says they thrived... Audio
- Vì sao mật ong từ ba nghìn năm trước vẫn có thể ăn được Honey jars from Egyptian tombs three thousand years old are still edible. The chemistry behind a food that... Audio
- Trận đấu quần vợt kéo dài ba ngày The longest tennis match ever played: Isner vs. Mahut, Wimbledon 2010, eleven hours, three days, a final... Audio
- Con bạch tuộc đã tự mở khóa An octopus called Inky escaped his aquarium tank at night through a drain pipe, and what it reveals about... Audio
- Cánh tay biết nếm Octopus suckers contain special receptors that let an arm taste whatever it touches, even in total darkness. Audio
- Khoản tiền thưởng lớn nhất lịch sử điền kinh A brand new athletics championship this month paid its winners more than the sport has ever offered before. Audio
- Dạy máy tính nói tiếng cá voi Researchers are using artificial intelligence to search for real structure inside the clicking patterns of... Audio
- Nhịp tim chậm của cây Laser scans at night revealed that trees pulse gently every few hours, possibly pumping water through their... Audio
- Hoa lúc ba giờ sáng At three in the morning, Bangkok's biggest flower market is more awake than midday, and it never really... Audio
- Vòng tròn đá và chuyến tàu sáng The Ring of Brodgar at dusk, then the small practical business of leaving an island, done in four sentences... Audio
- Hạt lúa chín trong chín mươi ngày In a bar in Kirkwall, a flat dark bannock turns out to be the reason the islands were farmable at all. Audio
- Cuộc tụ họp trên bãi đá Grey seals are hauling out on the low rocks before the pupping season, and the questions Polly has been... Audio
- Dựng lên từ những gì họ có On Lamb Holm, two army huts hold a chapel that prisoners of war made out of scrap, and the only honest... Audio
- Ngôi làng dưới cơn bão At the Bay of Skaill, a guide with a carrying voice explains a village that a storm returned to the light... Audio
- Chiếc ghế bên lò sưởi A guesthouse above the harbour, an argument about what counts as a quiet room, and a chair whose whole... Audio
- Chuyến tàu cập bến Polly lands at Stromness off the morning boat and works out, one question at a time, how a place with no... Audio
- Mười nghìn vận động viên, một đêm khai mạc The 2026 Asian Games, hosted jointly by Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, bring together roughly ten thousand... Audio
- Ngân hàng chỉ nhận phô mai An Italian bank keeps a vault holding more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- Con số pin chỉ là phỏng đoán A phone's battery percentage is not a direct measurement, but an estimate calculated from voltage and... Audio
- Bãi biển này làm từ rác A sparkling beach in Northern California is made entirely of old dumped glass, smoothed into colorful... Audio
- Chẳng tòa nào có tầng bốn In much of East Asia, elevators skip the number four entirely, because it sounds exactly like the word for... Audio
- Sương mù khép lại sau lưng cô On her last afternoon, Polly flies high over the island one more time before fog rolls in and hides it... Audio
- Ngôi làng nối thẳng vào núi lửa Polly finds the same underground heat that cooked lunch also fills a giant public pool and warms homes,... Audio
- Bữa tối chôn từ sáng sớm Polly watches a cook lower sealed pots into holes heated only by the volcano below, where dinner cooks for... Audio
- Một miệng núi lửa, hai màu nước Polly finds one huge old crater holding two lakes side by side, one blue and one green, joined underneath... Audio
- Loài chim hai lần bị cho là đã mất Polly searches an old laurel forest for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird found only here, once thought... Audio
- Hai vườn trà cuối cùng ở châu Âu Polly finds one of only two working tea plantations left in Europe, started after disease wiped out the... Audio
- Chín hòn đảo, ba mảng kiến tạo Polly arrives over São Miguel, the largest of the nine Azores islands, and learns that three tectonic... Audio
- Polly đi xe buýt Polly boards the bus downtown for the first time, with a patient capybara at the wheel and one nervous... Audio
- Polly hỏi đường Polly gets lost looking for the library and learns that asking is faster than wandering. Audio
- Polly gọi một cốc cà phê Polly finds a corner cafe, orders a coffee with milk, discovers churros, and stays for a while by the window. Audio
- Polly đi chợ Berta shows Polly the neighborhood market. Polly asks about an unfamiliar fruit, buys apples, and learns... Audio
- Polly gặp người hàng xóm mới Polly arrives on a new street, meets Berta the bear over the garden fence, and they agree to meet again at... Audio
- Vladivostok Polly arrives in Vladivostok at the end of the 9,289-kilometre Trans-Siberian, stretches her wings, and... Audio
- Sông Amur Polly reaches Khabarovsk on the sixth day of the Trans-Siberian, sees the Amur River bordering China, and... Audio
- Hồ Baikal Polly spends the fifth day of the Trans-Siberian running along Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest lake on... Audio
- Múi Giờ Polly explores the dining car on the fourth day, learning that the whole train runs on Moscow time across... Audio
- Vượt Qua Dãy Ural Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the dividing line between Europe and Asia, on the third day of the... Audio
- Rừng Bạch Dương Polly wakes up on the second morning of the Trans-Siberian, watching the birch forests of European Russia.... Audio
- Ga Yaroslavsky Polly boards the Rossiya at Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station to begin the 9,289-kilometre, seven-day... Audio
- Tạm Biệt Pasta Polly says goodbye to Pasta the octopus and flies out of Naples toward her next destination. Audio
- Người Biên Tập Của Chính Mình Polly learns that octopuses edit their own RNA in real time, building a brain that is different in each... Audio
- Pizza và Bữa Trưa Dài Polly has the long Italian lunch with Chiara at a Neapolitan pizzeria, learning the protected rules of... Audio
- Làn Da Biết Nhìn Polly watches Pasta find food under a coloured plate even though octopuses are colour-blind through their... Audio
- Cơ Thể Biết Suy Nghĩ Polly watches Pasta solve a maze with two arms working independently. She learns that two thirds of an... Audio
- Chiếc Lọ Polly watches Pasta open a screw-top jar to catch a crab, learning that octopus arms taste what they touch... Audio
- Vịnh Naples Polly arrives in Naples and is welcomed into the world's oldest marine biology institute, where she meets a... Audio
- Rời Thung Lũng Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas and flies west out of Yosemite, watching a peregrine hunt swifts on her... Audio
- Dải Ngân Hà Trên Glacier Point Polly watches sunset from Glacier Point and stays for the Milky Way, looking through a park astronomer's... Audio
- Nửa Vòm Polly rides thermals up the 1,500-metre north face of Half Dome with a flock of swifts, reaches the summit,... Audio
- Chim Cắt Lặn Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive from El Capitan, learning how the falcon's third eyelid and... Audio
- Cây Sequoia Polly visits Mariposa Grove and perches on the Grizzly Giant, a giant sequoia nearly 3,000 years old,... Audio
- Đi Cùng Kiểm Lâm Tomas Polly spends a morning in Ranger Tomas's truck, learning how he tracks bear feeding in wildflower meadows... Audio
- Trên Thung Lũng Polly arrives at Yosemite Valley from the air, takes in its U-shaped glacial geology, watches climbers on... Audio
- Paella Chủ Nhật An adult granddaughter visits home and finds her grandfather hasn't forgotten anything yet. Audio
- Chiếc Cốc Rỗng First day at a new office, a small lesson about asking before assuming. Audio
- Số Bốn Mươi Bảy A small injury, an old magazine, and a waiting room that teaches patience. Audio
- Chuyến Tàu Đến Granada An overheard phone call on the train turns a long trip into a kind of company. Audio
- Nhầm Hiệu Sách A simple coffee order leads to a strange conversation about a bookshop that doesn't exist anymore. Audio
- Lạc đường ở Lisbon A wrong turn on a steep street becomes the best part of the trip. Audio
- Phòng 304 Có Tầm Nhìn Đẹp A late check-in turns into a small gift when the hotel runs out of rooms on the lower floors. Audio
- Bàn Cho Một Người A traveler eats alone in Madrid and discovers the waiter is the real star of the meal. Audio