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

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

Map

Power Before Petroleum

Miscellany

The beginning of curfews.

Liberated energy.

Year without a summer.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

The leftovers.

Our friend the atom.

King Coal

Furious revolutions.

Hit the brakes.

Side effects may include.

The magnet has a soul.

Energy etymology.

Well of nightmares.

Blessing of heaven.

Voices In Time

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Postmortem

1803 | London

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Charts and Graphs

Elite Eaters

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Powering Up

Imperial Resources

Ups and Downs

Moving Heaven and Earth

Low-Energy Leaders

Boom and Bust

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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