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

Year without a summer.

Liberated energy.

Well of nightmares.

King Coal

Furious revolutions.

The magnet has a soul.

Our friend the atom.

Energy etymology.

Blessing of heaven.

The beginning of curfews.

Hit the brakes.

Side effects may include.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

The leftovers.

Voices In Time

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Postmortem

1803 | London

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Charts and Graphs

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Ups and Downs

Boom and Bust

Powering Up

Elite Eaters

Moving Heaven and Earth

Low-Energy Leaders

Imperial Resources

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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