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

King Coal

The magnet has a soul.

Hit the brakes.

Side effects may include.

The beginning of curfews.

Well of nightmares.

Furious revolutions.

Our friend the atom.

Liberated energy.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

The leftovers.

Year without a summer.

Energy etymology.

Blessing of heaven.

Voices In Time

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

City Lights

1910 | New York City

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Postmortem

1803 | London

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Charts and Graphs

Elite Eaters

Low-Energy Leaders

Powering Up

Imperial Resources

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Boom and Bust

Moving Heaven and Earth

Ups and Downs

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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