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

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Blessing of heaven.

Energy etymology.

Furious revolutions.

Our friend the atom.

Hit the brakes.

King Coal

The beginning of curfews.

Year without a summer.

Well of nightmares.

The leftovers.

The magnet has a soul.

Side effects may include.

Liberated energy.

Voices In Time

Postmortem

1803 | London

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Charts and Graphs

Powering Up

Imperial Resources

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Elite Eaters

Moving Heaven and Earth

Low-Energy Leaders

Ups and Downs

Boom and Bust

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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