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

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Hit the brakes.

The beginning of curfews.

Liberated energy.

King Coal

The leftovers.

Year without a summer.

Furious revolutions.

The magnet has a soul.

Well of nightmares.

Side effects may include.

Energy etymology.

Blessing of heaven.

Our friend the atom.

Voices In Time

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Postmortem

1803 | London

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Charts and Graphs

Ups and Downs

Elite Eaters

Boom and Bust

Imperial Resources

Moving Heaven and Earth

Powering Up

Low-Energy Leaders

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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