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

Our friend the atom.

Liberated energy.

The leftovers.

Side effects may include.

Hit the brakes.

Energy etymology.

Furious revolutions.

Year without a summer.

King Coal

Well of nightmares.

The beginning of curfews.

Blessing of heaven.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

The magnet has a soul.

Voices In Time

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Postmortem

1803 | London

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Charts and Graphs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Elite Eaters

Imperial Resources

Boom and Bust

Low-Energy Leaders

Powering Up

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Ups and Downs

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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