Dec 14, 2021
We are humbled to host Kenneth Kosik, professor of Neuroscience
at UC Santa Barbara on this week's Colombia Calling podcast, the
final for 2021.
Kenneth S. Kosik, M.D. is an American neurologist, author,
researcher and professor in neuroscience at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. Kosik provided much of the...
Dec 7, 2021
On episode 405 of the Colombia Calling podcast, we explore the
world of e-commerce in Colombia and talk to Sebastian Laurson of
the start-up sex toy company, Secretos.
Dane Laurson is partner with five other immigrants to Colombia and
between them, they are seeking to revolutionise the sex toy
industry, removing the...
Nov 30, 2021
Nadya Ortiz is Colombia's first woman chess grandmaster. Hailing from humble origins in Ibague, chess became a conduit for her success. By succeeding in the chess world, she won a scholarship to study at university in Texas, later another one to go to Purdue and then by virtue of her excellence in computer science now...
Nov 23, 2021
One of the goals of the Colombia Calling podcast is to reveal lesser or unknown stories from Colombia and this week on Episode 403, I feel we've really hit this one out of the park! We get to talk to Daniela Rocha and Daniel Velasquez, part of a team of filmmakers currently putting together a documentary entitled:...
Nov 16, 2021
It's no secret that I've been looking for someone to discuss this on the podcast for some while, but finally, it's come together. Johanna Gomez is in the process of writing up her PhD thesis at the Goldsmiths University in London and her research has taken her deep into the Llanos of Colombia, where witchcraft is rife,...