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

Our friend the atom.

Side effects may include.

The leftovers.

King Coal

Hit the brakes.

Furious revolutions.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Blessing of heaven.

The beginning of curfews.

Energy etymology.

Well of nightmares.

Year without a summer.

Liberated energy.

The magnet has a soul.

Voices In Time

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Postmortem

1803 | London

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Charts and Graphs

Imperial Resources

Powering Up

Elite Eaters

Moving Heaven and Earth

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Boom and Bust

Low-Energy Leaders

Ups and Downs

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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