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

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

King Coal

The beginning of curfews.

Liberated energy.

Furious revolutions.

The leftovers.

Year without a summer.

Energy etymology.

Side effects may include.

Hit the brakes.

Well of nightmares.

Blessing of heaven.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

The magnet has a soul.

Our friend the atom.

Voices In Time

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Postmortem

1803 | London

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Charts and Graphs

Imperial Resources

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Boom and Bust

Ups and Downs

Elite Eaters

Powering Up

Low-Energy Leaders

Moving Heaven and Earth

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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