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

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

Side effects may include.

Hit the brakes.

Year without a summer.

The magnet has a soul.

Our friend the atom.

The leftovers.

Liberated energy.

The beginning of curfews.

King Coal

Furious revolutions.

Well of nightmares.

Blessing of heaven.

Energy etymology.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Voices In Time

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Postmortem

1803 | London

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Charts and Graphs

Boom and Bust

Imperial Resources

Elite Eaters

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Powering Up

Moving Heaven and Earth

Low-Energy Leaders

Ups and Downs

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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