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

Well of nightmares.

The magnet has a soul.

Our friend the atom.

Energy etymology.

Side effects may include.

King Coal

Hit the brakes.

Blessing of heaven.

Furious revolutions.

Liberated energy.

Year without a summer.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

The beginning of curfews.

The leftovers.

Voices In Time

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

City Lights

1910 | New York City

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Postmortem

1803 | London

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Charts and Graphs

Ups and Downs

Imperial Resources

Powering Up

Moving Heaven and Earth

Low-Energy Leaders

Elite Eaters

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Boom and Bust

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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