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

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

The magnet has a soul.

Blessing of heaven.

Liberated energy.

Well of nightmares.

Year without a summer.

King Coal

Side effects may include.

Energy etymology.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Hit the brakes.

Our friend the atom.

The beginning of curfews.

The leftovers.

Furious revolutions.

Voices In Time

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Postmortem

1803 | London

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Charts and Graphs

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Powering Up

Moving Heaven and Earth

Ups and Downs

Low-Energy Leaders

Imperial Resources

Elite Eaters

Boom and Bust

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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