C1 · Stretch yourself
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- 절벽에서 발견된, 아무도 이름 붙이지 않았던 두 생물 Scientists in Montenegro have described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... ? Quiz included Audio
- 만오천 킬로미터를 헤엄친 고래 Polly learns about two humpback whales who swam 14,000+ km from Australia to Brazil, breaking the world... Audio
- 집게발 속에 태양을 품은 새우 A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so violently that it produces a flash of heat nearly as hot as the... Audio
- 호주가 에뮤에게 진 전쟁 In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was deployed against emus devastating the wheat crop in... Audio
- 알고 보니 침팬지도 사투리가 있다 A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls finds that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- 치즈를 담보로 돈을 빌려주는 은행 An Italian bank stores and ages more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- 왜 당신의 지도는 점심때쯤이면 틀려 있을까 Satellites tick at a different rate than clocks on the ground, and without a deliberate correction your... Audio
- 피부가 멈추지 않고 내뿜는 빛 Human skin gives off a faint light around the clock, invisible to the eye, as a Japanese team confirmed by... Audio
- 말이 바다를 건너는 진짜 방법 Almost everything sent between continents travels not through satellites but through cables lying on the... Audio
- 잠든 사이 국경을 건너는 호텔 On a European night train, a traveller falls asleep in one country and wakes in another, with the Alps... Audio
- 서울이 반세기 동안 숨겨 온 강 Seoul spent decades entombing a river beneath a highway, then reversed course and dug it back into the... Audio
- 일요일이 여전히 요구하는 것 An adult granddaughter returns home for Sunday paella and discovers that her octogenarian grandfather's... Audio
- 건물 하나 안에서 사는 마을 Almost the entire population of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building, reached... Audio
- 카페 하나, 나라 둘 In the Belgian Dutch town of Baarle, the international border runs straight through streets, houses, and... Audio
- 왕이 거의 보지 못한 성 Bavaria's King Ludwig the Second poured a fortune into a fairy tale castle he would inhabit for barely a... Audio
- 바다 밑바닥을 걸어서 건너다 Twice each day, the tide withdraws for kilometres along the Wattenmeer coast, inviting walkers onto the... Audio
- 휴대폰이 고장 난 게 아니다. 그저 추운 것뿐이다 A phone that shows forty percent battery and then dies the moment you step into the cold has not run out of... Audio
- 고도 십 킬로미터 위에서 Passenger jets cruise about ten kilometres up not for the view but because that is where thin air starts... Audio
- 제국보다 오래 남은 꿀 Honey sealed inside Egyptian tombs thousands of years ago remains perfectly edible today, and the reason... Audio
- 자물쇠를 풀고 나간 문어 An octopus named Inky vanished from a New Zealand aquarium overnight, and the ingenious route he took to... Audio
- 돌의 원과 아침 배 The Ring of Brodgar at dusk, then the small practical business of leaving an island, done in four sentences... Audio
- 구십일 곡식 In a bar in Kirkwall, a flat dark bannock turns out to be the reason the islands were farmable at all. Audio
- 암초 위의 모임 Grey seals are hauling out on the low rocks before the pupping season, and the questions Polly has been... Audio
- 가진 것으로 지은 것 On Lamb Holm, two army huts hold a chapel that prisoners of war made out of scrap, and the only honest... Audio
- 폭풍 아래의 마을 At the Bay of Skaill, a guide with a carrying voice explains a village that a storm returned to the light... Audio
- 난롯가의 의자 A guesthouse above the harbour, an argument about what counts as a quiet room, and a chair whose whole... Audio
- 배가 들어오다 Polly lands at Stromness off the morning boat and works out, one question at a time, how a place with no... Audio
- 안개가 그녀의 뒤를 닫는다 On her last afternoon, Polly climbs high over the whole island one more time before fog rolls in from the... Audio
- 화산에 연결된 마을 Walking through the village, Polly finds the same underground heat that cooked lunch also fills a giant... Audio
- 새벽에 묻은 저녁밥 Beside a steaming lake, Polly watches a cook lower sealed pots into holes heated only by the volcano below,... Audio
- 하나의 분화구, 두 가지 색 Polly finds an ancient volcanic crater holding two lakes side by side, one blue and one green, joined... Audio
- 두 번이나 사라진 줄 알았던 새 Deep in an old laurel forest, Polly searches for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird found nowhere else... Audio
- 유럽에 남은 마지막 두 정원 Polly lands on a terraced hillside where one of only two working tea plantations left in Europe still uses... Audio
- 아홉 개의 섬, 세 개의 판 Polly arrives over São Miguel, the largest of the nine Azores islands, and finds a coastline of black... Audio
- 폴리, 버스를 타다 One nervous first ride, a capybara who has seen it all, and the exact moment a new neighborhood starts... Audio
- 폴리, 길을 묻다 Twenty minutes of proud wandering, one patient owl, and the discovery that a single question is worth more... Audio
- 폴리, 커피를 주문하다 A rainy afternoon pushes Polly into the corner cafe, where a badger with a bow tie, a first coffee order,... Audio
- 폴리, 시장에 가다 Berta keeps her promise and walks Polly through the Saturday market, where a spiky fruit, a chatty goat,... Audio
- 폴리, 새 이웃을 만나다 On moving day, Polly meets Berta the bear watering her geraniums, and a chat over the fence turns into a... Audio
- 가장 건조한 곳을 오르다 Polly arrives at ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama, the driest place on Earth, where four enormous... Audio
- 블라디보스토크 Polly arrives in Vladivostok at the end of the Trans-Siberian's 9,289 kilometres, stretches her wings, and... Audio
- 바이칼 호수 Polly spends the fifth day of the Trans-Siberian running along Lake Baikal, the deepest, oldest, and... Audio
- 우랄 산맥을 넘어서 Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the geographic boundary between Europe and Asia, on the third day of the... Audio
- 자작나무 숲 Polly wakes up on the second morning of the Trans-Siberian crossing the birch forests of European Russia.... Audio
- 야로슬라브스키 역 Polly boards the Rossiya, the flagship train of the Trans-Siberian Railway, at Moscow's Yaroslavsky... Audio
- 파스타에게 작별을 Polly says goodbye to Pasta the octopus, who presses one arm against the glass exactly opposite where... Audio
- 스스로를 편집하는 자 Polly learns that octopuses edit their own RNA in real time, tuning their nervous systems to their... Audio
- 피자와 긴 점심 Polly takes the long lunch with Chiara at a Neapolitan pizzeria, learning the protected rules behind... Audio
- 보는 피부 Polly watches Pasta find food under a coloured plate even though octopuses are colour-blind through their... Audio
- 생각하는 몸 Polly watches Pasta solve an acrylic maze using two arms independently. She learns that two-thirds of an... Audio
- 나폴리 만 Polly arrives in Naples and is welcomed into the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, the world's oldest marine... Audio
- 계곡을 떠나며 Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas at the visitor centre and lifts off west out of Yosemite, leaving behind... Audio
- 빙하 포인트 위의 은하수 Polly watches sunset from Glacier Point and stays for the Milky Way, looking through a park astronomer's... Audio
- 하프 돔 Polly climbs the 1,500-metre north face of Half Dome on rising thermals with a flock of white-throated... Audio
- 잠수하는 매 Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive after seeing one launch from El Capitan, learning about the... Audio
- 세쿼이아 Polly visits Mariposa Grove and climbs into the canopy of the Grizzly Giant, a giant sequoia nearly 3,000... Audio
- 레인저 토마스와 함께하는 여행 Polly rides shotgun with Ranger Tomas Rodriguez through Yosemite for a morning, learning how rangers... Audio
- 계곡 위에서 Polly arrives at Yosemite Valley from the air, taking in the U-shaped glacial geology, El Capitan with... Audio