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

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

King Coal

The leftovers.

Blessing of heaven.

Liberated energy.

Side effects may include.

The beginning of curfews.

Energy etymology.

Our friend the atom.

The magnet has a soul.

Well of nightmares.

Hit the brakes.

Furious revolutions.

Year without a summer.

Voices In Time

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Postmortem

1803 | London

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Charts and Graphs

Elite Eaters

Powering Up

Ups and Downs

Low-Energy Leaders

Imperial Resources

Boom and Bust

Moving Heaven and Earth

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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