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

The leftovers.

Blessing of heaven.

Furious revolutions.

Liberated energy.

Well of nightmares.

Energy etymology.

Hit the brakes.

The magnet has a soul.

Year without a summer.

The beginning of curfews.

Our friend the atom.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

King Coal

Side effects may include.

Voices In Time

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Postmortem

1803 | London

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Charts and Graphs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Powering Up

Low-Energy Leaders

Imperial Resources

Boom and Bust

Ups and Downs

Elite Eaters

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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