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

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

Year without a summer.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

The magnet has a soul.

King Coal

Furious revolutions.

Liberated energy.

Blessing of heaven.

Well of nightmares.

Energy etymology.

Hit the brakes.

The beginning of curfews.

Our friend the atom.

Side effects may include.

The leftovers.

Voices In Time

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Postmortem

1803 | London

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Force Field

1492 | Milan

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

City Lights

1910 | New York City

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Charts and Graphs

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Imperial Resources

Ups and Downs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Boom and Bust

Powering Up

Elite Eaters

Low-Energy Leaders

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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The Colosseum, attributed to Robert Eaton, c. 1855.
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Monumental Mistakes

2023:

Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.

c. 1850:

Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.

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