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

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

King Coal

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Our friend the atom.

Furious revolutions.

The beginning of curfews.

Hit the brakes.

Liberated energy.

Blessing of heaven.

Side effects may include.

The magnet has a soul.

Year without a summer.

The leftovers.

Energy etymology.

Well of nightmares.

Voices In Time

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Postmortem

1803 | London

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Charts and Graphs

Boom and Bust

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Elite Eaters

Ups and Downs

Low-Energy Leaders

Moving Heaven and Earth

Imperial Resources

Powering Up

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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