Author / Christian Fogerty

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  • Resolutions That Stick

    My resolutions come to me as they please. I don’t set my sights firmly on one when the New Year comes around. Instead, they take a bit of time to crystallize out of thin air – kind of like brainstorming ideas for a WUPR piece. I’m here to advocate for letting resolutions come to you.…

  • Taking A Gigabyte Out Of Your Brain

    Ever since Plato declared that writing will make people “cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written,” humans have had a tendency to criticize the newest methods of disseminating, recording, and representing ideas. The accusations are always similar to Plato’s: the precious internal memory is supplanted by external memory, making retention…

  • MSD Project Clear: A Step In What Direction?

    Underground sewage tunnels tend to get relegated to the back of our mind—lumped in with all those chase scenes in Marvel movies. But they are very real, and St. Louis is built over a wide swath of them, along with natural caves and artificially filled in caves just waiting to collapse. Owing to Missouri’s karstic…