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

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

Energy etymology.

Blessing of heaven.

The leftovers.

Side effects may include.

The magnet has a soul.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Well of nightmares.

Hit the brakes.

The beginning of curfews.

Year without a summer.

Furious revolutions.

Liberated energy.

King Coal

Our friend the atom.

Voices In Time

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Postmortem

1803 | London

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Charts and Graphs

Powering Up

Boom and Bust

Moving Heaven and Earth

Ups and Downs

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Elite Eaters

Imperial Resources

Low-Energy Leaders

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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