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

Year without a summer.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Energy etymology.

The magnet has a soul.

Our friend the atom.

Well of nightmares.

Side effects may include.

The leftovers.

The beginning of curfews.

Furious revolutions.

Blessing of heaven.

Hit the brakes.

Liberated energy.

King Coal

Voices In Time

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Postmortem

1803 | London

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Charts and Graphs

Imperial Resources

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Ups and Downs

Boom and Bust

Low-Energy Leaders

Elite Eaters

Powering Up

Moving Heaven and Earth

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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