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

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

King Coal

Year without a summer.

The magnet has a soul.

The beginning of curfews.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Well of nightmares.

Energy etymology.

The leftovers.

Hit the brakes.

Blessing of heaven.

Our friend the atom.

Liberated energy.

Side effects may include.

Furious revolutions.

Voices In Time

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Postmortem

1803 | London

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Charts and Graphs

Low-Energy Leaders

Ups and Downs

Imperial Resources

Elite Eaters

Moving Heaven and Earth

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Boom and Bust

Powering Up

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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