Hi Everyone, This is Episode 15 of The Knowmads Podcast. The mother’s Mental health during the time of pregnancy is extremely crucial. Studies suggest that prenatal stress and trauma have the capacity to propagate through generations. Our guest today is a UH graduate student at the Laboratory of early experiences and development studying cognitive …

Hi Everyone, This is Episode 14 of The Knowmads Podcast. Whether you're a parent searching for that delicate equilibrium between responsibilities and aspirations, or someone looking for a force of motivation to go back to school, start a different journey, or simply someone seeking a tale of inspiration, you're in for a treat. From her humble begin…

Hi Everyone, This is Episode 13 of The Knowmads Podcast. Most of us who grew up in bilingual or a multilingual homes often wonder if the new babies in the family will be able to understand these different language(s). In this episode we dive deep into the fascinating world of early language development in children. Our guest today Christina Diaz Gr…

Hi Everyone, This is Episode 12 of The Knowmads Podcast. Long after abolishment of Slavery in the US, in the late 1800s the effects are still seen in different forms. The unbalanced dynamics of power between prison authorities and prisoners illustrates hints of slavery even today and remains ignored. Our guest today is a historian from Rice Univers…

Hi Everyone, This is Episode 11 of The Knowmads Podcast. Have you ever wondered why do we dream, are we conscious while we are sleeping? How is our brain able to generate a 3 dimensional visual image every night while our eyes are closed? Our guest today Adriana Alcaraz Sánchez is a philosopher, from University of Glasgow. In new recent work. She t…

Hi Everyone, This is Episode 10 of The Knowmads Podcast. Political discussions and associated ideologies almost always resolve in thinking about national leaders and the large scale effects of policies that finally lead to geo politics. The conversations often lack the microscopic details and the penetrative effects of policies at the lowest local …

Hi Everyone, This is Episode 9 of The Knowmads Podcast. Right before getting into the double digits of episodes we decided to do an ask us anything episode. Although we weren't able to answer all the questions that you guys had asked we answered ones that were most interesting and kind of captured many details in the questions that we missed. We wo…

Hi Everyone, This is Episode 8 of The Knowmads Podcast. During the academic stages of our lives we spend most of our time developing tools and skills that aid our research and problem solving ability and this is true for all fields of study. Now most students think that this is it! This is how you can essentially get your dream position. Well what …

Hi Everyone, This is Episode 7 of The Knowmads Podcast. Every rational human has once in their life thought about the implications of porn on oneself and the society. Gail Dines, an anti-porn sociologist and professor at Wheelock college claims in her work that due to the adverse implications of pornography, it has become a public health issue and …

Hi Everyone, This is Episode 6 of The Knowmads Podcast. The path to self-exploration is very unique for everyone. Our passion, ambition and relationships play an instrumental role in shaping our lives. Our guest today found his true expression and self in literature. His humility and empathy allowed him to overcome all the challenges that life thre…

Hi Everyone, This is Episode 5 of The Knowmads Podcast. A lot of students all around the world leave their home country and move to another county to prsue higher education. We often talk about their learnings and success but in reality what goes behind all that enlightenment is mostly never talked about. Our guest today has a PhD in physics who le…

Hi Everyone, This is Episode 4 of The Knowmads Podcast. We all know PhD one complete adventure like none other. There exist factors that we don't know anything when we begin our PhD. You can never expect how drastically the research project, advisor and the overall situation can change. Our guest today faced all such challenges and it only made him…

Hi Everyone, This is EP3 of The Knowmads Podcast. In Life one finds it difficult to find what truly makes them happy. Our guest today is someone who did not have such a problem. He is a physics graduate student, but that's not how his journey began. Caleb Broodo left his basketball career, his dream to play in the NBA and his engineering pursuit to…

Hi Everyone, This is EP2 of The Knowmads Podcast. Have you ever found yourself in a situation when you you're passionate about something, you love something and you've learn to appreciate it from a very very young age but then life happened. Our guest today did his undergrad in mechanical engineering and physics but had to make a circumstantial swi…

Hi Everyone, This is EP1 of The Knowmads Podcast. You've already seen our Vlogs and enjoyed our nomadic side. We have been planning to do this Podcast for a very long and finally we found the time to make it happen. We finally justify the 'Know' of Knowmads and we kickstart this podcast by addressing a common question that we always get: "How do yo…