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

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

Our friend the atom.

Liberated energy.

The beginning of curfews.

Year without a summer.

Energy etymology.

Furious revolutions.

Side effects may include.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

King Coal

The magnet has a soul.

The leftovers.

Hit the brakes.

Blessing of heaven.

Well of nightmares.

Voices In Time

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Postmortem

1803 | London

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Charts and Graphs

Imperial Resources

Elite Eaters

Low-Energy Leaders

Boom and Bust

Powering Up

Ups and Downs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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