Shepherds with Picnic, by Jacob Wothly and Emile Mangel du Mesnil, c. 1864. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2016.

Energy

Volume XV, Number 2 | winter 2024

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Power Outage

Lewis H. Lapham

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

The beginning of curfews.

Well of nightmares.

The magnet has a soul.

Energy etymology.

King Coal

Blessing of heaven.

Side effects may include.

Liberated energy.

Furious revolutions.

Our friend the atom.

The leftovers.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Hit the brakes.

Year without a summer.

Voices In Time

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Postmortem

1803 | London

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Charts and Graphs

Imperial Resources

Elite Eaters

Moving Heaven and Earth

Powering Up

Ups and Downs

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Low-Energy Leaders

Boom and Bust

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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