That's why Smil's recent book "Numbers Don't Lie– 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World" is such a joy. It is not an engineering manual, but a romp through Smil's brain.

In "Size," Dr Vaclav Smil takes readers on a multidiscipline tour of the social quirks, economic intricacies, and biological peculiarities that result from our function following our form.

Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure by Vaclav Smil Published in February 2023 What sort of book might Vaclav Smil write if he turned his attention to higher education?

Vaclav Smil reminds us that despite the onslaught of popular techno-pundits claiming otherwise, immense and rapid progress in one realm does not mean immense and rapid progress in all realms.

Environment Energy expert Vaclav Smil on how to feed the world without trashing it The systems we use to produce food have many problems, from horrifying waste to their dependence on fossil fuels.

Vaclav Smil was born in 1943, during World War II, in Czechoslovakia, in the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. As a teenager, Smil’s parents expected him to chop wood, every four hours ...

On mega-universities, expanding endowments and prolific authors. Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil Published in May 2023 According to the prolific Vaclav Smil, one way to understand the ...

A conversation with scientist Vaclav Smil, author of Growth — a dense treatise that covers everything from “microorganisms to megacities.” By David Wallace-Wells book excerpt Sept. 24, 2019 ...

Vaclav Smil's take on how to feed future populations has one big flaw How to Feed the World, Vaclav Smil's "big numbers" book about future food supply, fails to address the impact of climate change ...

Vaclav Smil quantifies the changes and the almost inevitable crises ahead.

Vaclav Smil is a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. President Trump's latest executive order on energy policy seeks to ...