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

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

The magnet has a soul.

Our friend the atom.

Energy etymology.

Well of nightmares.

Furious revolutions.

The beginning of curfews.

Side effects may include.

Year without a summer.

Liberated energy.

King Coal

The leftovers.

Blessing of heaven.

Hit the brakes.

Voices In Time

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Postmortem

1803 | London

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Force Field

1492 | Milan

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Charts and Graphs

Elite Eaters

Ups and Downs

Powering Up

Imperial Resources

Moving Heaven and Earth

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Boom and Bust

Low-Energy Leaders

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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