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

Our friend the atom.

The beginning of curfews.

King Coal

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

The leftovers.

Hit the brakes.

Blessing of heaven.

Liberated energy.

The magnet has a soul.

Side effects may include.

Furious revolutions.

Year without a summer.

Energy etymology.

Well of nightmares.

Voices In Time

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Postmortem

1803 | London

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Charts and Graphs

Boom and Bust

Ups and Downs

Powering Up

Elite Eaters

Moving Heaven and Earth

Low-Energy Leaders

Imperial Resources

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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