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A brief history of vanished flavors
In which I also reveal the recipe for Kowalski's Pickles
Dec 14, 2025
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Cats
If you search online for “first cat pic ever taken”, you may come across this image:
Apr 27, 2025
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William Kowalski
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On leavetakings and homecomings
Back in mid-March, my wife dropped our 19-year-old daughter at the airport in Halifax.
Apr 20, 2025
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Amazing Things We Forgot We Knew
Part 1: The Antikythera Mechanism
Jan 5, 2025
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Aristotle and the Secret Watchers
In the Early Pleistocene Era, when I was a freshman at St. John's College...
Dec 29, 2024
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Bob Bartlett, Mugpi, and the last voyage of the Karluk
In 1931, there appeared a Canadian film called The Viking. It starred Charles Starret, Arthur Vinton, Louise Huntington, and Bob Bartlett, and it told…
Jul 7, 2024
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William Kowalski
Adventures in AI Image Generation
I bought a subscription to a new AI image generation service called Midjourney. I learned about it when someone on Reddit, a news aggregator and…
May 12, 2024
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On leavetakings and homecomings
Apr 20, 2025
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William Kowalski
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Adventures in AI Image Generation
May 12, 2024
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William Kowalski
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Cats
Apr 27, 2025
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William Kowalski
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Aristotle and the Secret Watchers
Dec 29, 2024
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William Kowalski
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Carl Sagan, Salvador Dali, and Kermit the Frog visit the Fourth Dimension
Imagine yourself sitting in a café, sipping an espresso with lemon and brown sugar, stirring it with a cute little spoon, scribbling poetic thoughts in…
Apr 28, 2024
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William Kowalski
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The Healing Power of Video Games
I grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania, in the 1970s and 80s.
Apr 21, 2024
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William Kowalski
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Welcome to The Game
Don't play this if you have anything at all to do today.
Apr 17, 2024
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William Kowalski
Moving on from WordPress
Sometimes breaking up is very easy.
Apr 16, 2024
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William Kowalski
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Getting Going
...again...
Apr 15, 2024
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