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

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

King Coal

Furious revolutions.

Well of nightmares.

Energy etymology.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Blessing of heaven.

Hit the brakes.

The beginning of curfews.

Our friend the atom.

The magnet has a soul.

Side effects may include.

The leftovers.

Year without a summer.

Liberated energy.

Voices In Time

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Postmortem

1803 | London

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Charts and Graphs

Ups and Downs

Boom and Bust

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Elite Eaters

Moving Heaven and Earth

Powering Up

Imperial Resources

Low-Energy Leaders

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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