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

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

Our friend the atom.

The leftovers.

King Coal

Liberated energy.

Energy etymology.

Furious revolutions.

Hit the brakes.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

The beginning of curfews.

Year without a summer.

Well of nightmares.

The magnet has a soul.

Side effects may include.

Blessing of heaven.

Voices In Time

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Postmortem

1803 | London

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Charts and Graphs

Low-Energy Leaders

Ups and Downs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Powering Up

Elite Eaters

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Boom and Bust

Imperial Resources

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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