B1 · Finding your flow
Polly's weekly adventures and real-world stories.
- वह पुल जिसने कीमत वसूली Polly walks the Brooklyn Bridge and learns how building it underwater left more than a hundred workers... Audio
- वह दौड़ जिसमें चीज़ हमेशा जीतता है Once a year in England, people chase a wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill, and the cheese almost... Audio
- दो बिलकुल नए जीव, हर एक नाखून जितना बड़ा Scientists in Montenegro just described two snail species new to science, found on limestone cliffs in a... Audio
- जिस दिन एक असली कीड़े ने कंप्यूटर बिगाड़ दिया In nineteen forty-seven, engineers found an actual moth stuck inside a giant computer, taped it into their... Audio
- वह झींगा जिसके पंजे के अंदर सूरज है A small ocean shrimp snaps its claw so fast that it creates a flash of heat nearly as hot as the surface of... Audio
- वह घर जो दो देशों में बँटा है In a small town on the Belgian-Dutch border, some houses sit in two countries at once, and the front door... Audio
- वह सेना जो पक्षियों से हार गई In nineteen thirty-two the Australian military was sent against emus eating the wheat crop in Western... Audio
- चिम्पैंज़ी की भी अपनी बोली होती है A new study of more than eleven thousand recorded calls found that young chimpanzees in different parts of... Audio
- इंटरनेट पानी के नीचे रहता है Almost all international internet traffic travels along cables lying on the sea floor, which break... Audio
- वह जानवर जो घन के आकार की लीद करता है Wombats are the only known animal to produce cube shaped droppings, and the corners are formed by uneven... Audio
- वह कस्बा जो एक ही इमारत में रहता है Almost every resident of Whittier, Alaska lives inside a single fourteen storey building reached through a... Audio
- यह पक्षी उड़ते हुए ही सोता है Frigatebirds stay in the air for days over open ocean, and researchers put recorders on their heads to find... Audio
- वह लंच जो पूरा देश खाता है In the Dominican Republic the main meal lands at midday, it is almost always the same three things, and the... Audio
- दोपहर तक तुम्हारा नक्शा गलत हो चुका होता Satellite clocks tick faster than clocks on the ground, and if nobody corrected for it your phone would... Audio
- तुम चमकते हो। कोई इसे देख नहीं सकता। Human skin gives off a faint light all day long, and a Japanese team photographed it in a sealed dark room. Audio
- यह नीला रंग सिर्फ़ एक जगह मिलता है A stony beach in the Dominican southwest, one pebble that is blue all the way through, and the single... Audio
- एक कैफ़े, दो देश In one small town, the border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs straight through streets, houses and... Audio
- तुम्हारे संदेश पानी के नीचे से गुज़रते हैं Almost everything you send across an ocean travels through cables lying on the sea floor, not through... Audio
- वह समुद्र तट जो रात को नीला चमकता है On some warm coasts, the sea lights up electric blue when you touch it. The light comes from billions of... Audio
- वह होटल जो तुम्हारे सोते समय चलता है On a European night train, you fall asleep in one country and wake up in another, with the Alps outside... Audio
- ज्वालामुखी द्वारा पकाया गया रात का खाना On a green island in the Azores, cooks lower a pot into a hot hole in the ground and let the earth slowly... Audio
- वह किला जिसमें राजा मुश्किल से रहा A Bavarian king built a fairy-tale castle on an alpine crag, slept there only a handful of nights, and left... Audio
- समुद्र के तल पर चलना Twice a day the North Sea pulls back for kilometres, and people walk barefoot across the bare seabed before... Audio
- ठंड में तुम्हारा फ़ोन क्यों बंद हो जाता है Your phone shows forty percent battery, then dies in the snow. The battery is not empty. It is cold, and... Audio
- वह शहर जिसने एक नदी को फिर से उजागर किया For fifty years, Seoul hid a river under an elevated highway. Then the city tore the highway down, and the... Audio
- ज़मीन से दस किलोमीटर ऊपर Passenger planes cruise about ten kilometres above the ground. That number is not random: it is where the... Audio
- आखिरी रेलगाड़ी In Tokyo, the trains stop around midnight. Tomas learns this five minutes too late, and discovers where the... Audio
- प्राचीन मानव वर्षावन में भी फलते फूलते रहे Scientists once thought ancient humans avoided rainforests. New evidence from West Africa says they thrived... Audio
- तीन हज़ार साल पुराना शहद अब भी क्यों खाने लायक है Honey jars from Egyptian tombs three thousand years old are still edible. The chemistry behind a food that... Audio
- वह टेनिस मैच जो तीन दिन तक चला The longest tennis match ever played: Isner vs. Mahut, Wimbledon 2010, eleven hours, three days, a final... Audio
- वह ऑक्टोपस जिसने ताला खोल दिया An octopus called Inky escaped his aquarium tank at night through a drain pipe, and what it reveals about... Audio
- वह भुजा जो स्वाद ले सकती है Octopus suckers contain special receptors that let an arm taste whatever it touches, even in total darkness. Audio
- एथलेटिक्स की अब तक की सबसे बड़ी कमाई A brand new athletics championship this month paid its winners more than the sport has ever offered before. Audio
- कंप्यूटर को व्हेल की भाषा सिखाना Researchers are using artificial intelligence to search for real structure inside the clicking patterns of... Audio
- पेड़ों की धीमी धड़कन Laser scans at night revealed that trees pulse gently every few hours, possibly pumping water through their... Audio
- रात के तीन बजे फूलों का बाज़ार At three in the morning, Bangkok's biggest flower market is more awake than midday, and it never really... Audio
- पत्थरों का घेरा और सुबह की नाव The Ring of Brodgar at dusk, then the small practical business of leaving an island, done in four sentences... Audio
- नब्बे दिन वाला अनाज In a bar in Kirkwall, a flat dark bannock turns out to be the reason the islands were farmable at all. Audio
- चट्टानों पर जमघट Grey seals are hauling out on the low rocks before the pupping season, and the questions Polly has been... Audio
- जो कुछ पास था, उसी से बनाया On Lamb Holm, two army huts hold a chapel that prisoners of war made out of scrap, and the only honest... Audio
- तूफ़ान के नीचे का गाँव At the Bay of Skaill, a guide with a carrying voice explains a village that a storm returned to the light... Audio
- आग के पास वाली कुर्सी A guesthouse above the harbour, an argument about what counts as a quiet room, and a chair whose whole... Audio
- नाव किनारे लगती है Polly lands at Stromness off the morning boat and works out, one question at a time, how a place with no... Audio
- दस हज़ार खिलाड़ी, एक उद्घाटन की रात The 2026 Asian Games, hosted jointly by Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, bring together roughly ten thousand... Audio
- वह बैंक जो सिर्फ़ पनीर लेता है An Italian bank keeps a vault holding more than half a million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano, accepted as... Audio
- बैटरी का वह नंबर सिर्फ़ एक अंदाज़ा है A phone's battery percentage is not a direct measurement, but an estimate calculated from voltage and... Audio
- यह समुद्र तट कचरे से बना है A sparkling beach in Northern California is made entirely of old dumped glass, smoothed into colorful... Audio
- कहीं भी चौथी मंज़िल नहीं In much of East Asia, elevators skip the number four entirely, because it sounds exactly like the word for... Audio
- उसके पीछे कोहरा बंद हो जाता है On her last afternoon, Polly flies high over the island one more time before fog rolls in and hides it... Audio
- ज्वालामुखी से जुड़ा एक गाँव Polly finds the same underground heat that cooked lunch also fills a giant public pool and warms homes,... Audio
- भोर में ज़मीन के नीचे दबाया गया रात का खाना Polly watches a cook lower sealed pots into holes heated only by the volcano below, where dinner cooks for... Audio
- एक क्रेटर, दो रंग Polly finds one huge old crater holding two lakes side by side, one blue and one green, joined underneath... Audio
- वह चिड़िया जिसे दो बार खोया हुआ मान लिया गया Polly searches an old laurel forest for the priolo, a tiny grey and pink bird found only here, once thought... Audio
- यूरोप के आख़िरी दो बाग़ Polly finds one of only two working tea plantations left in Europe, started after disease wiped out the... Audio
- नौ द्वीप, तीन प्लेटें Polly arrives over São Miguel, the largest of the nine Azores islands, and learns that three tectonic... Audio
- पॉली बस में Polly boards the bus downtown for the first time, with a patient capybara at the wheel and one nervous... Audio
- पॉली और लाइब्रेरी का रास्ता Polly gets lost looking for the library and learns that asking is faster than wandering. Audio
- पॉली और एक कप कॉफ़ी Polly finds a corner cafe, orders a coffee with milk, discovers churros, and stays for a while by the window. Audio
- पॉली बाज़ार में Berta shows Polly the neighborhood market. Polly asks about an unfamiliar fruit, buys apples, and learns... Audio
- पॉली और नई पड़ोसन Polly arrives on a new street, meets Berta the bear over the garden fence, and they agree to meet again at... Audio
- व्लादिवोस्तोक Polly arrives in Vladivostok at the end of the 9,289-kilometre Trans-Siberian, stretches her wings, and... Audio
- अमूर Polly reaches Khabarovsk on the sixth day of the Trans-Siberian, sees the Amur River bordering China, and... Audio
- बैकाल झील Polly spends the fifth day of the Trans-Siberian running along Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest lake on... Audio
- समय क्षेत्र Polly explores the dining car on the fourth day, learning that the whole train runs on Moscow time across... Audio
- उरल्स को पार करते हुए Polly crosses the Ural Mountains, the dividing line between Europe and Asia, on the third day of the... Audio
- बर्च के जंगल Polly wakes up on the second morning of the Trans-Siberian, watching the birch forests of European Russia.... Audio
- यारोस्लावस्की स्टेशन Polly boards the Rossiya at Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station to begin the 9,289-kilometre, seven-day... Audio
- पास्ता को अलविदा Polly says goodbye to Pasta the octopus and flies out of Naples toward her next destination. Audio
- स्वयं का संपादक Polly learns that octopuses edit their own RNA in real time, building a brain that is different in each... Audio
- पिज़्ज़ा और लंबा लंच Polly has the long Italian lunch with Chiara at a Neapolitan pizzeria, learning the protected rules of... Audio
- देखने वाली त्वचा Polly watches Pasta find food under a coloured plate even though octopuses are colour-blind through their... Audio
- सोचने वाला शरीर Polly watches Pasta solve a maze with two arms working independently. She learns that two thirds of an... Audio
- कांच की बोतल Polly watches Pasta open a screw-top jar to catch a crab, learning that octopus arms taste what they touch... Audio
- नेपल्स की खाड़ी Polly arrives in Naples and is welcomed into the world's oldest marine biology institute, where she meets a... Audio
- घाटी को छोड़ते हुए Polly says goodbye to Ranger Tomas and flies west out of Yosemite, watching a peregrine hunt swifts on her... Audio
- ग्लेशियर पॉइंट से आकाशगंगा Polly watches sunset from Glacier Point and stays for the Milky Way, looking through a park astronomer's... Audio
- हाफ डोम Polly rides thermals up the 1,500-metre north face of Half Dome with a flock of swifts, reaches the summit,... Audio
- गोता लगाती बाज़ Polly tries to copy a peregrine falcon's dive from El Capitan, learning how the falcon's third eyelid and... Audio
- सिकोइया Polly visits Mariposa Grove and perches on the Grizzly Giant, a giant sequoia nearly 3,000 years old,... Audio
- रेंजर टोमस के साथ सवारी Polly spends a morning in Ranger Tomas's truck, learning how he tracks bear feeding in wildflower meadows... Audio
- घाटी के ऊपर Polly arrives at Yosemite Valley from the air, takes in its U-shaped glacial geology, watches climbers on... Audio
- रविवार की पेला An adult granddaughter visits home and finds her grandfather hasn't forgotten anything yet. Audio
- खाली मग First day at a new office, a small lesson about asking before assuming. Audio
- नंबर सैंतालीस A small injury, an old magazine, and a waiting room that teaches patience. Audio
- ग्रेनाडा की ट्रेन An overheard phone call on the train turns a long trip into a kind of company. Audio
- गलत किताबों की दुकान A simple coffee order leads to a strange conversation about a bookshop that doesn't exist anymore. Audio
- लिस्बन में भटकना A wrong turn on a steep street becomes the best part of the trip. Audio
- कमरा 304 का नज़ारा A late check-in turns into a small gift when the hotel runs out of rooms on the lower floors. Audio
- अकेले के लिए मेज़ A traveler eats alone in Madrid and discovers the waiter is the real star of the meal. Audio
- अकेले के लिए एक मेज़ A traveler eats alone in Madrid and discovers the waiter is the real star of the meal. Audio