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

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Hit the brakes.

Blessing of heaven.

Energy etymology.

The leftovers.

The magnet has a soul.

Well of nightmares.

Liberated energy.

Side effects may include.

The beginning of curfews.

Year without a summer.

Our friend the atom.

King Coal

Furious revolutions.

Voices In Time

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Postmortem

1803 | London

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Charts and Graphs

Powering Up

Low-Energy Leaders

Elite Eaters

Ups and Downs

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Moving Heaven and Earth

Imperial Resources

Boom and Bust

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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