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

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

The beginning of curfews.

The magnet has a soul.

Side effects may include.

Liberated energy.

Year without a summer.

The leftovers.

King Coal

Hit the brakes.

Furious revolutions.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Well of nightmares.

Our friend the atom.

Energy etymology.

Blessing of heaven.

Voices In Time

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

City Lights

1910 | New York City

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Postmortem

1803 | London

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Charts and Graphs

Imperial Resources

Elite Eaters

Moving Heaven and Earth

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Powering Up

Ups and Downs

Boom and Bust

Low-Energy Leaders

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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