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- Bill Gates: The Best Books I Read In 2014
Philanthropist Bill Gates recommends five favorite books he read this year. Link to: Bill Gates: the best books I read in 2014 .......... The books: Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street Capital in the Twenty-First...
- Bill Gates: The Seven Best Books I Read In 2013
Found via Farnam Street. Link to: Bill Gates: The Seven Best Books I Read in 2013 .......... The books: The Box, by Marc LevinsonThe Most Powerful Idea in the World, by William RosenHarvesting the Biosphere, by Vaclav SmilThe World Until Yesterday, by...
- Jeremy Grantham, Starving For Facts – By Vaclav Smil
A big thanks to Kent for passing this along. Two guys I really respect, with two very opposing views. Grantham’s article that Smil is referencing is available HERE. Link to: Jeremy Grantham, Starving for Facts – By Vaclav Smil ...
- Vaclav Smil's “energy Myths And Realities” - A Review
Found via Chris Martenson.Vaclav Smil, professor of Environment and Environmental Geography at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, has written a new book called “Energy Myths and Realities.” In the book, he looks at a number of things he considers...
- The Man Who’s Tutoring Bill Gates
Found via Simoleon Sense. The most-published and least-known thinker in Canada doesn’t want to be interviewed. He says he has 77 deadlines to meet (perhaps an exaggeration, but probably not) before he flies off to a scientific conference in Europe....
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Meet Vaclav Smil, the Canadian polymath whose books Bill Gates is racing to read
A few weeks ago, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates published his personal summer reading list on his blog Gates Notes. Of the eight titles, two are by the same author, a Canadian professor emeritus you’ve probably never heard of: Vaclav Smil.
“I’m trying to read everything he writes, but he publishes so quickly that I can’t keep up,” Gates writes of Smil on his blog.
Smil, who taught in the department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba until 2011, can only be described as an interdisciplinary scholar. He has written about a large number of globally significant issues and trends, though he tends to focus on energy, food production, and the environment. The two Smil books on Gates’s summer agenda are about the fall of manufacturing in the US and the rise of sushi and meat-eating in Japan. He has also published books on the creation of synthetic fertilizers, the diesel engines and jet turbines that make global trade possible, and the limits to growth in China. His book count will hit 34 in December, and he’s published hundreds of academic papers. He is 69 years old.
- Bill Gates: The Best Books I Read In 2014
Philanthropist Bill Gates recommends five favorite books he read this year. Link to: Bill Gates: the best books I read in 2014 .......... The books: Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street Capital in the Twenty-First...
- Bill Gates: The Seven Best Books I Read In 2013
Found via Farnam Street. Link to: Bill Gates: The Seven Best Books I Read in 2013 .......... The books: The Box, by Marc LevinsonThe Most Powerful Idea in the World, by William RosenHarvesting the Biosphere, by Vaclav SmilThe World Until Yesterday, by...
- Jeremy Grantham, Starving For Facts – By Vaclav Smil
A big thanks to Kent for passing this along. Two guys I really respect, with two very opposing views. Grantham’s article that Smil is referencing is available HERE. Link to: Jeremy Grantham, Starving for Facts – By Vaclav Smil ...
- Vaclav Smil's “energy Myths And Realities” - A Review
Found via Chris Martenson.Vaclav Smil, professor of Environment and Environmental Geography at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, has written a new book called “Energy Myths and Realities.” In the book, he looks at a number of things he considers...
- The Man Who’s Tutoring Bill Gates
Found via Simoleon Sense. The most-published and least-known thinker in Canada doesn’t want to be interviewed. He says he has 77 deadlines to meet (perhaps an exaggeration, but probably not) before he flies off to a scientific conference in Europe....