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

Energy etymology.

Liberated energy.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Hit the brakes.

Furious revolutions.

The beginning of curfews.

The leftovers.

Well of nightmares.

Blessing of heaven.

King Coal

Year without a summer.

Side effects may include.

Our friend the atom.

The magnet has a soul.

Voices In Time

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Postmortem

1803 | London

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

City Lights

1910 | New York City

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Charts and Graphs

Powering Up

Imperial Resources

Low-Energy Leaders

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Boom and Bust

Ups and Downs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Elite Eaters

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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