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

Liberated energy.

Well of nightmares.

The beginning of curfews.

King Coal

Blessing of heaven.

Our friend the atom.

Hit the brakes.

The leftovers.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Year without a summer.

Energy etymology.

Side effects may include.

The magnet has a soul.

Furious revolutions.

Voices In Time

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Postmortem

1803 | London

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Charts and Graphs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Ups and Downs

Elite Eaters

Boom and Bust

Imperial Resources

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Low-Energy Leaders

Powering Up

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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