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

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

Our friend the atom.

Blessing of heaven.

The leftovers.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

The beginning of curfews.

Well of nightmares.

Side effects may include.

Furious revolutions.

Energy etymology.

King Coal

The magnet has a soul.

Liberated energy.

Hit the brakes.

Year without a summer.

Voices In Time

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Postmortem

1803 | London

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Charts and Graphs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Powering Up

Imperial Resources

Low-Energy Leaders

Elite Eaters

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Ups and Downs

Boom and Bust

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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