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

Liberated energy.

The beginning of curfews.

Blessing of heaven.

Hit the brakes.

The magnet has a soul.

Year without a summer.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

King Coal

Side effects may include.

The leftovers.

Energy etymology.

Furious revolutions.

Our friend the atom.

Well of nightmares.

Voices In Time

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Postmortem

1803 | London

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Charts and Graphs

Imperial Resources

Low-Energy Leaders

Boom and Bust

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Moving Heaven and Earth

Powering Up

Ups and Downs

Elite Eaters

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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