Posts by Jonathan Keller
How Should I See?
Hold up your favorite index finger about an arm’s length in front of you. How many fingers do you see? For me (Jonathan), I see a main finger and a transparent one, and I’ve long enjoyed splitting apart and smushing together these finger images. In fact, my superpower is that each of my eyes creates a secondary image, a condition called diplopia (double vision)! …
Where Should I Go?
Are we there yet? Where are we even going? One day, I decided to take a snowboarding trip out to the Rocky Mountains. Loaded up with my snow gear and bundled up in my snow clothes, I set out toward the Rockies with only a vague sense of how to get there. Many hours flew by and the sun set, and I decided to pull over into a nearby motel somewhere right of nowhere. The…
Who Should I Be?
What do you want to be when you grow up? Last week, we began our four-part series on four ethical questions – Do? Be? Go? See? – to help understand complex issues in our world. “What should I do?” is where these issues can often start and end, but our second question, “Who should I be?”, opens up opportunities for further investigation. If you live in America,…