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

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

The magnet has a soul.

Side effects may include.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Furious revolutions.

The beginning of curfews.

King Coal

Our friend the atom.

Blessing of heaven.

Well of nightmares.

Year without a summer.

Liberated energy.

Hit the brakes.

Energy etymology.

The leftovers.

Voices In Time

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Postmortem

1803 | London

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Charts and Graphs

Powering Up

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Moving Heaven and Earth

Elite Eaters

Low-Energy Leaders

Boom and Bust

Ups and Downs

Imperial Resources

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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