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

Furious revolutions.

The beginning of curfews.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Year without a summer.

Side effects may include.

Well of nightmares.

Blessing of heaven.

Energy etymology.

Our friend the atom.

The leftovers.

Liberated energy.

The magnet has a soul.

Hit the brakes.

King Coal

Voices In Time

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Postmortem

1803 | London

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Charts and Graphs

Boom and Bust

Low-Energy Leaders

Moving Heaven and Earth

Imperial Resources

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Powering Up

Elite Eaters

Ups and Downs

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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