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 leftovers.

Blessing of heaven.

The beginning of curfews.

Furious revolutions.

Energy etymology.

Our friend the atom.

Liberated energy.

The magnet has a soul.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Side effects may include.

Well of nightmares.

Hit the brakes.

King Coal

Year without a summer.

Voices In Time

Postmortem

1803 | London

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Charts and Graphs

Low-Energy Leaders

Ups and Downs

Imperial Resources

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Boom and Bust

Powering Up

Moving Heaven and Earth

Elite Eaters

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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