Books Over Drinks

Estuvimos conversando con la galardonada periodista Chelsea Wald, sobre su libro Pipe Dreams, la búsqueda urgente por repensar el inodoro. Pipe Dreams da una mirada al panorama de los sistemas de saneamiento básico, y sobre el inodoro. Quizá una de las innovaciones más significativas de nuestra historia. Sin embargo, este aparato mecánico lleva consigo una larga historia y un presente que se ve am...

Estuvimos conversando con Lourdes Alvarez, Gerente de Programas en el Departamento de Agua y Saneamiento del Instituto Internacional del Agua de Estocolmo (SIWI), sobre el tema de saneamiento básico en Colombia. Un tema de gran importancia dado el impacto ambiental, socioeconómico, y para la salud de nuestras comunidades.

We sat with Dr. Mauro F. Guillén to discuss his latest book, 2030, how today’s biggest trends will collide and reshape the future of everything. Dr. Guillén is the Dean at the Cambridge Judge Business School and a Fellow of Queen's College at the University of Cambridge. An expert in global market trends, and a renown, educator, speaker, and consultant. The book’s subtitle couldn’t be more descrip...

Estuvimos conversando con @soylolapons acerca de su libro, El árbol de la lengua. Un libro maravilloso que recopila artículos que Lola ha venido escribiendo por más de una década, y que defienden (a título propio, pero con argumentos académicos) la pureza lingüística, mientras que nos presenta las normas y principios que muchos desconocemos pero que hacen parte de ese tapiz histórico a siglos de s...

We sat with Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden to discuss her book. The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality. The book covers foundational concepts about genetics delivered for a general audience, while exploring and explaining the field of genetics in the context of how genetic variances correlate with outcomes. An interesting and quite a provocative premise meant to draw our attention to t...

We sat with Dr. Wade Davis, an anthropologist, and Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Wade is A prolific writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic. An Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, he was named as one of the explorers for the millennium, Davis holds de...

Estuvimos conversando con la Doctora Lola Pons Rodriguez, filóloga, historiadora de la lengua y catedrática de la universidad de Sevilla, escritora de múltiples publicaciones entre las cuales se encuentran el árbol de la lengua y este, una lengua muy larga. Un libro fantástico, que recopila narraciones cortas trazando a su paso la historia de nuestra lengua. Aquella que nace en Castilla, esa regió...

We sat with Henry Jeffreys’ to discuss his book, Empire of Booze: British History through the Bottom of a Glass. Henry is a renowned drinks correspondent, and features editor at the Master of Malt blog. He worked in the wine trade and publishing before becoming a freelance writer and broadcaster. His work has appeared in the Spectator, the Guardian, the BBC Radio, and the Oldie and Food & Wine...

We sat with Dr. Jordan Ellenberg to discuss his latest book Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else. Jordan is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His writing has appeared in Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the Believer. His 2014 boo...

Estuvimos charlando con Vanessa Londoño acerca de su novela El Asedio Animal. Una crónica de aquellos que han sido vulnerados por múltiples tipos de violencia en Latinoamérica, desde el conflicto armado hasta la violencia de género. Vanessa nos comparte una prosa lirica escrita con una gran sutileza y destreza artística; llena de figuras literarias y vehículos semánticos hermosos, a pesar de trata...

We sat with Michael Farquhar to discuss his latest book More Bad Days in History: The Delightfully Dismal, Day-by-Day Saga of Ignominy, Idiocy, and Incompetence Continues. A fascinating book that gives us a unique take on our history, one of misfortune. A treasure trove of 365 historical misfortunes. One for every day of the year, and ranging from trivial to momentous, from laughable to cringewort...

We sat with Dr. O'Neil to discuss her book, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data increases inequality and threatens democracy. Dr. O’Neil has a PhD in math from Harvard, and a posdoc from MIT. She is a seasoned columnist for Bloomberg view, and her blog https://mathbabe.org/ . The book was quite insightful. It gives us a raw perspective on the effects of the algorithms often used as decision...

A delightful and insightful look into the Latin music industry spanning five decades worth of history from the early 1970s covering its rise to popularity, resonating beyond niche markets, and becoming part of the pop culture mainstream and our contemporary social constructs. @leilacobo, a pianist, novelist, journalist, TV host and executive editor for Latin content and programming for Billboard,...

We sat with Professor David Nutt to discuss his book Drink: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health. Professor Nutt, is the director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences at the Imperial College London, where he studies the effects of substances in our brains. He is also the Chair of DrugScience (formally the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs) and Preside...

Un Currículum Perfecto. El primer libro de Noelia Colmenarejo, quien desde hace más de 10 años trabaja para la Policía Municipal de Madrid en la unidad de atención a víctimas de violencia de género. Un delito que por años venía siendo trivializado, pero que ha tomado fuerza y relevancia en una era en las que movimientos de justicia social han avanzado más allá de las esferas culturales y políticas...

Joanne McNeil unpacks 30 (plus) years of internet history with the sober pragmatism of a historian and the charisma of a seasoned storyteller. “Lurking” isn’t a history textbook, or at least, it doesn’t read like one. It isn’t a memoir either, yet it feels very personal. McNeil effectively contextualizes the chaotic history of one of the most transformative forces in contemporary times. The Intern...

A book about the mechanics of memory (written for the layman) with an interesting commentary on the philosophical aspects of human identity. Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Director of the Centre for Systems Neuroscience at the University of Leicester, evokes (surprisingly relevant*) pop culture references and delightful passages from Borges to demystify the concepts of synapse, memory, abstraction, and se...