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Via Bill Gates [H/T Phil]: "China used more cement in the last three years than the U.S. used in the entire 20th century"
Related book: Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
- Links
Aswath Damodaran - The Education Business: A Road Map for Disruption (LINK) Related mini-book (PDF): Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce RevolutionRelated book: Disrupting ClassAndrew Smithers: The contested ties between asset...
- Links
Vaclav Smil: Making the Modern World [video] (LINK) Related book: Making the Modern WorldMark Buchanan: Arrow-Debreu Derangement Syndrome (LINK) Related book: Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About...
- This Is The Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading
“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil,” Bill Gates wrote this summer. That’s quite an endorsement—and it gave a jolt of fame to Smil, a professor emeritus of environment and geography at the University of Manitoba....
- 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...
- Peter Nolan Introduces Is China Buying The World?
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