Money and Finance
Link to video
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Related book: Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects [For other books by Vaclav Smil, go HERE.]
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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....
Money and Finance
Vaclav Smil video: Energy Transitions
Link to video
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Related book: Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects [For other books by Vaclav Smil, go HERE.]
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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....