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

The magnet has a soul.

The leftovers.

Well of nightmares.

Energy etymology.

The beginning of curfews.

Our friend the atom.

King Coal

Blessing of heaven.

Side effects may include.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Furious revolutions.

Hit the brakes.

Liberated energy.

Year without a summer.

Voices In Time

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Postmortem

1803 | London

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

City Lights

1910 | New York City

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Charts and Graphs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Imperial Resources

Elite Eaters

Boom and Bust

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Low-Energy Leaders

Ups and Downs

Powering Up

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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