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

Our friend the atom.

Side effects may include.

Blessing of heaven.

Year without a summer.

The leftovers.

Well of nightmares.

Energy etymology.

Furious revolutions.

Liberated energy.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

The beginning of curfews.

Hit the brakes.

King Coal

The magnet has a soul.

Voices In Time

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Postmortem

1803 | London

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Charts and Graphs

Elite Eaters

Imperial Resources

Boom and Bust

Moving Heaven and Earth

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Low-Energy Leaders

Ups and Downs

Powering Up

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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