Jonathan Riedel

Activist, Atheist, Entrepreneur, Explorer, Inventor, Philanthropist, Project manager, Public servant, Startup, Writer/Editor

I am currently a linguist and paralegal in New York City. Before that I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kazakhstan. Before that I studied Philosophy, where I particularly liked talk about psychology, the mind, time, and language, and in true philosopher's fashion, the intersection between all of them. I also majored in Spanish and French Comparative where I learned a great deal about the anathema of language students everywhere: the subjunctive mood. Before that I was a child. I have color-grapheme synesthesia, I can solve Rubik's Cube, I know some lame magic tricks, I'm accidentally almost a vegetarian, I spend a lot of time on the internet, and I like modern art.

Language, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, evolution, sociology

I'd like to see if Jevons' paradox is true.

French Literature, Kazakh Language, Philosophy of Mind, Spanish Language, Synesthesia

The first TED video I saw was Ron Eglash on Fractals. Two years later I was referred back and I watched all of the videos marked "ingenious" and "fascinating" within a month.

Math, although I was a Humanities major.