Podcasts




Nitrogen in the atmosphere: is it worth worrying that there is so much of it?

Duration: 0:35:31

Artyom Oganov will discuss composition of the atmosphere of different planets . Find out why the air shell of our Earth is unique, why there is so much nitrogen in its atmosphere, about what is above the surface of Mars, Venus and other planets.


Idleness that is always with you

Duration: 0:33:44

Polk podcast revisits how Russian literature speaks of idleness . From the blissful bliss of romantic poets to the pathological inactivity of Oblomov . From moralizing verses of Marshak and Barto to the real trial of the "parasite" Brodsky .