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

Liberated energy.

Our friend the atom.

Well of nightmares.

The beginning of curfews.

The magnet has a soul.

Year without a summer.

Side effects may include.

Energy etymology.

Furious revolutions.

Waiting to mate in dimmer conditions.

Hit the brakes.

The leftovers.

Blessing of heaven.

King Coal

Voices In Time

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Postmortem

1803 | London

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Where Is the Way to the Dwelling of the Light?

c. 550 BC | Uz

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Shine Bright Like a Diamond

1849 | Berlin

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Supply-Chain Disruption

537 | Rome

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Total Eclipse of the Heart

1878 | Denver

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Charts and Graphs

Low-Energy Leaders

Boom and Bust

Ups and Downs

Imperial Resources

Moving Heaven and Earth

Elite Eaters

Powering Up

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Contributors

Conversations

Moses Maimonides & Frances Willard

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