On Monday, Bill Gates released his annual list of favorite books that he read over the year. One of his recommendations was "Energy and Civilization: A History" by Vaclav Smil. This pick should come ...
The best book I’ve read this year about the future is Vaclav Smil’s How the World Really Works. The irony is that Smil is an avowed antifuturist, repeatedly noting that he refuses to make predictions ...
If you want to understand the future of energy, says Vaclav Smil, you need to think locally—and skeptically. Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Manitoba, says that America ...
Not long ago, I randomly opened Vaclav Smil’s recent book “Size: How It Explains the World.” The first paragraph I read, in a chapter about good and bad design, concerned rubber flip-flops, which Smil ...
Author Vaclav Smil tackles the big problems facing America and the world. Andreas Laszlo Konrath "There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil," Bill Gates wrote this summer.
Vaclav Smil rarely agrees to interviews. Too many in the media have portrayed him as a tool of Big Oil, he says — because he insists on pointing out how deeply dependent humanity is on fossil fuels ...
America in 2015 finds itself almost in a new energy reality. It recently became the world’s second-largest extractor of crude oil, and since 2010 has been the leading producer of natural gas, whose ...
Can reading Vaclav Smil’s Grand Transitions help us think about the future of higher education? My latest obsession is the university of 2050. The reasons have to do with symmetry—2050 is about the ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Nathaniel Rich HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re ...
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