President Alejandro Toledo at Stanford University, May 2015 This April, Dr. Alejandro Toledo, who was president of Peru from 2001 – 2006, came back to the USA to introduce his latest book. He also came with his wife, renown anthropologist Eliane Karp-Toledo who was also inaugurating her book. Both of those books were written during their last tenure at Stanford University that ended in Summer 2014. Karp-Toledo’s book is called, “Peru invisible” or “invisible Peru”, which refer to her long life studies about the indigenous people on Peru. In it, she proposes ways of how to fight for indigenous people’s rights, for respect and ways to preserved their culture and traditions. She proposes ways of  helping them be part of a modernized global economy, and, in conclusion, ensure that they are considered part of the country and global society making them less “invisible” without departing from their culture. Toledo’s book is called “The Shared Society, a Vision for the Global Future of Latin America ” and is about the path that LatinAmerica should lead in the next years towards s more fair and sustainable society, without poverty, illiteracy or malnutrition, in the way of a developed hemisphere by the year 2050. The Shared [...]

Carlos Diuk-Wasser, Ph.D. Today a conversation with Dr. Carlos Greg Diuk, a computer scientist, and a data scientist at Facebook’s Core Data Science Team, who in his free time has been researching the occurrence of deep thoughts documented during the story of humankind. For this conversation sits with us our entrepreneurship columnists Daniel Caselles. His study began with the work of Dr. Julian Jaynes (February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997), from Princeton university and his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1076). In his theory, Jaynes proposed that the structure of the brain changed around 3000 years B.C. to allow deep thoughts that before would have been understood as hallucinations or “God’s voice”. Although Diuk is not a follower of all Jaynes theory, but he together with a group of friends with the inspiration of Jaynes and decided to build a tool that analyzed all literature ever written in history.  They assigned levels of introspection to the words depending on semantics. This gave then a graphic way to understand the rise of analytic and introspective thoughts on humans throughout history. Here a presentation that Dr. Duik made at Brava Theater in San Francisco fro the series of talks called “Ignite“. _______________________________________ [...]