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.

Vaclav Smil, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Manitoba, says that America is in decline because of the loss of manufacturing jobs. He speaks with Jeff Ball at the ECO:nomics ...

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 ...

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.

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?

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 ...