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

Hit the brakes.

Blessing of heaven.

Furious revolutions.

Energy etymology.

King Coal

Our friend the atom.

The leftovers.

Year without a summer.

Well of nightmares.

Liberated energy.

The beginning of curfews.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Side effects may include.

The magnet has a soul.

Voices In Time

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Postmortem

1803 | London

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Force Field

1492 | Milan

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Charts and Graphs

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Imperial Resources

Moving Heaven and Earth

Low-Energy Leaders

Powering Up

Boom and Bust

Ups and Downs

Elite Eaters

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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