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

Energy etymology.

Side effects may include.

Furious revolutions.

Blessing of heaven.

The leftovers.

The beginning of curfews.

Well of nightmares.

Year without a summer.

King Coal

Liberated energy.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Hit the brakes.

The magnet has a soul.

Our friend the atom.

Voices In Time

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Postmortem

1803 | London

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Charts and Graphs

Elite Eaters

Ups and Downs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Low-Energy Leaders

Boom and Bust

Powering Up

Imperial Resources

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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