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

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Blessing of heaven.

Year without a summer.

Furious revolutions.

Hit the brakes.

Well of nightmares.

Our friend the atom.

Liberated energy.

Energy etymology.

The beginning of curfews.

Side effects may include.

The leftovers.

The magnet has a soul.

King Coal

Voices In Time

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Postmortem

1803 | London

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Charts and Graphs

Boom and Bust

Low-Energy Leaders

Imperial Resources

Powering Up

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Moving Heaven and Earth

Elite Eaters

Ups and Downs

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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