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

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

The beginning of curfews.

Our friend the atom.

Hit the brakes.

Blessing of heaven.

Side effects may include.

Well of nightmares.

Year without a summer.

Energy etymology.

Liberated energy.

Furious revolutions.

King Coal

The magnet has a soul.

The leftovers.

Voices In Time

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Postmortem

1803 | London

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

City Lights

1910 | New York City

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Charts and Graphs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Ups and Downs

Powering Up

Imperial Resources

Low-Energy Leaders

Elite Eaters

Boom and Bust

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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