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.

Hit the brakes.

Blessing of heaven.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

King Coal

Side effects may include.

Liberated energy.

Our friend the atom.

The beginning of curfews.

Furious revolutions.

Well of nightmares.

The magnet has a soul.

The leftovers.

Energy etymology.

Voices In Time

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Postmortem

1803 | London

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Charts and Graphs

Elite Eaters

Low-Energy Leaders

Boom and Bust

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Moving Heaven and Earth

Powering Up

Imperial Resources

Ups and Downs

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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