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.

Blessing of heaven.

Furious revolutions.

Liberated energy.

Well of nightmares.

The leftovers.

Year without a summer.

Our friend the atom.

Hit the brakes.

The beginning of curfews.

Energy etymology.

King Coal

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Voices In Time

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Postmortem

1803 | London

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Charts and Graphs

Powering Up

Imperial Resources

Low-Energy Leaders

Boom and Bust

Moving Heaven and Earth

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Ups and Downs

Elite Eaters

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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