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

The magnet has a soul.

Liberated energy.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Our friend the atom.

Blessing of heaven.

Hit the brakes.

Well of nightmares.

Year without a summer.

Side effects may include.

Energy etymology.

The leftovers.

King Coal

The beginning of curfews.

Furious revolutions.

Voices In Time

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Postmortem

1803 | London

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Charts and Graphs

Imperial Resources

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Boom and Bust

Elite Eaters

Powering Up

Ups and Downs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Low-Energy Leaders

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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