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

Furious revolutions.

Blessing of heaven.

Side effects may include.

The leftovers.

Well of nightmares.

Hit the brakes.

The magnet has a soul.

Year without a summer.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Our friend the atom.

Liberated energy.

King Coal

The beginning of curfews.

Energy etymology.

Voices In Time

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

City Lights

1910 | New York City

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Postmortem

1803 | London

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Charts and Graphs

Elite Eaters

Low-Energy Leaders

Boom and Bust

Imperial Resources

Ups and Downs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Powering Up

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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