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

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

Energy etymology.

Side effects may include.

The beginning of curfews.

The leftovers.

Our friend the atom.

Furious revolutions.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Blessing of heaven.

King Coal

Liberated energy.

The magnet has a soul.

Year without a summer.

Hit the brakes.

Well of nightmares.

Voices In Time

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Postmortem

1803 | London

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Charts and Graphs

Ups and Downs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Powering Up

Imperial Resources

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Boom and Bust

Low-Energy Leaders

Elite Eaters

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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