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The Knowmads Podcast

This podcast is about Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Culture, Graduate life and much more.

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68:26

Daniel Whiteson on Do Aliens Speak Physics?

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2025/10/26

Imagine: it’s a lazy Sunday morning, you’re sipping your raspberry-flavored iced latte, and an interstellar traveler lands in your backyard. It starts walking toward you—what do you do? Are you terrified or calm? If you’re a scientist stuck on a problem for years, do you ask for help? If you’re an influencer, are you already crafting your next post? If you’re a cook, are you hunting for new recipes? Honestly, with our limited human experience and understanding, it’s hard to even imagine such ...

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Eve M. Vavagiakis on What goes into Cosmological...

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2025/09/29

The universe is about 14 billion years old. Ever wondered—how do we even know the age of the universe? How can we look up at the sky and read time itself? We do this by studying the afterglow of the Big Bang, called the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR)—relic radiation from the very beginning of the universe. Physicists build ultra-cold microwave telescopes—cryogenic cameras with incredibly sensitive detectors—that can spot tiny temperature changes and faint polarization, and even ...

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Ramakrishna V. Hosur on when Science Meets Spirituality

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2025/08/23

Science and philosophy have always been woven together. Some of history’s greatest minds—Aristotle, Galileo, Aryabhata and even Einstein—were as much philosophers as they were scientists. This has also been true for ancient Indian civilization, where science and philosophy were explored with extraordinary depth, not as separate pursuits, but as complementary paths to knowledge. These insights were preserved in Sanskrit, a language whose precision allowed complex ideas to be recorded wi...

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85:22

Pavan Hosur on Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis

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2025/07/18

Imagine walking deep into a dense forest without a map or GPS. Initially, you kind of know where you started. But as you wander further, eventually, it's impossible to tell where you came from — every direction looks the same. That's thermalization. The initial state's details get scrambled across all degrees of freedom and as a result local observables settle into a stable, time-independent state called the equilibrium state. The fact that macroscopic objects equilibrate with their env...

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61:48

Andreas Karch on the Stringy Nature of the Universe

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2025/06/20

Modern physics rests on two foundational frameworks that describe our universe at different scales. The first is General Relativity, Einstein’s theory of gravity, which describes gravity not as a force but as the curvature of spacetime itself. Massive objects bend the geometry of spacetime, and this curvature dictates how all massive objects move, from planets to black holes. At the microscopic scale, we have quantum mechanics which describes the probabilistic nature of par...

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59:44

Kaden Hazzard on the exotic nature of Paraparticles

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2025/05/23

The world we live in is believed to be divided into two fundamental families of particles--Fermions and Bosons. Today, we're sitting in Dr. Kaden Hazzard's beautiful office at Rice University in Houston, who along with his student, proposed a robust third class of particles called paraparticles. An astonishingly simple operation of swapping any two particles, is what it takes to reveal their nature. We know that Bosons obey BE statistics and Fermions obey Fermi-Dirac statistics. But what abou...

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59:38

Rene Bellwied on Winning the 2025 Breakthrough Prize...

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2025/04/18

Hello everyone, welcome to season 2 of the Knowmads podcast. Since Season 2 was long overdue, we had to start with someone who’s not just had a remarkable academic journey in physics, but also someone who’s been a great mentor to all his students and really, to everyone who walks into his office. So in this episode, we’re sitting in the office of Professor René Bellwied — a leading experimental physicist and a core member of the ALICE collaboration — which stands for A Large Ion Collider Expe...

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50:46

Livia Merrill on psychological impacts on children...

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2023/09/05

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Kristen Dobbs on juggling passions: A journey of...

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2023/08/29

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Christina D. Griep on language acquisition and early...

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2023/08/22

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68:27

Nina Nevill on oppression against incarcerated black...

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2023/08/15

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Adriana Alcaraz Sánchez on consciousness and altered...

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2023/08/03

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99:38

Daniel Huff on education policy and student debts in...

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2023/07/29

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119:22

Ask us anything!

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2023/07/24

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76:27

Aymen on the Essence of Soft Skills during your PhD

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2023/07/08

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89:18

Deepak Singh Rawat on Literature, fiction and philosophy

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2023/06/24

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115:04

Bikash Panthi on Challenges Faced by International...

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2023/06/12

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59:30

Pablo Lopez-Duque on the research community, physics...

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2023/06/11

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104:34

Caleb Broodo on Basketball, Engineering and life as a...

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2023/06/03

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