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From: John Brockman Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 5:29 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Cc: Lesley Groff Subject: Fwd: save the date JE, In car to airport. ON cell. About to call you. Here's the list to date, =nd below is the plan. JB CONFIRMED Nicholas Christakis Daniel Dennett Jennifer Jacquet Danny Kahneman Joshua Knobe Rob Kurzban David Pizarro Anne Treisman John Brockman Katinka Matson Max Brockman REGRETS Adam Alter Paul Bloom Rodney Brooks Dan Gilbert Jonathan Haidt Eldar Safir AWAITING RESPONSE Mahzarin Banaji Rebecca Goldstein Joshua Greene Joe Henrich Joe LeDoux Sendhil Mullainathan Michael Norton Liz Phelps Steven Pinker 1 EFTA_R1_02106994 EFTA02707913 Laurie Santos Philip Tetlock Dear xxx„ Danny Kahneman and Anne Treisman will be our houseguests at Eastover =arm in Bethlehem, CT the Friday September 6- Saturday, Septmeber 7th, =nd I want to plan something entertaining and interesting. I have in mind a rehearsal, or dry run, for a possible annual event =hich would be a weekend that focuses on state of art of what the social =ciences have to tell us about human nature in the past year or two. For =ant of something more serious, it's "THE HEAD CONFERENCE" or "HEADCON". =e would host a couple of dinners Fri and Sat nights, and on Saturday, a =ay of hanging out at the Farm. During those periods, there would be a =eries of talks by the invited guests. EDGE would pick up hotel room =harges and transportation expenses. Some background: In 1992, when the physicist George Smoot announced his =indings from the COBE satellite regarding cosmic background radiation =nd the beginning of time, I left a message on the voicemail of the =ate, great Sidney Coleman of Harvard : "Sidney, I hear there's =omething new in the Universe. What is it?. And what's in it for me?" =he message went viral after Sidney posted it on the electronic bulletin =oard of the physics community. My question was inspired by an annual event in Italy for leading =hysicists where Sidney gave the keynote talk. The topic of his lecture =as essentially "What's new in the Universe?" Sidney would detail the =dvances and developments in the past year or two across many areas of =hysics. In this case, I would be asking you, and the other guests, to give a =alf hour talk responding to a similar question: "What's new in your field of social science in the last year or two, and =hy should I care? Why do I want or need to know about it and how does =t change my view of human nature'? I would ask you to focus broadly and address the major developments in =our entire field (including but not at all limited to your own research =genda). It would have to be new, fresh, and original: an up-to-date =ield report on your area of social science. This talk should be, to the =xtent possible, conversational, and not a canned Power-Point or =tide-driven conference talk. We would videotape the entire event and =resent the videos and texts as an EDGE Special Event. For this dry run, on September 6 & 7, we're focusing on one day, =eplicating the usual Edge Events at Eastover Farm. =ee:http://www.edge.org/events/eastover-farm-meetings To date, the following are confirmed. Awaiting word from a number of =thers: Nicholas Christakis http://edge.org/memberbio/nicholas_a_christakis Daniel Dennett http://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_c_dennett Jennifer Jacquet http://www.edge.org/memberbio/jennifer jacquet Danny Kahneman http://www.edge.org/memberbio/daniel_kahneman Joshua Knobe http://www.edge.org/memberbio/joshua_knobe Rob Kurzban http://www.edge.org/memberbio/rob_kurzban David Pizarro 2 EFTA_R1_02106995 EFTA02707914 http://www.edge.org/memberbio/david_pizarro Anne Treisman http://www.edge.org/memberbio/anne_treisman FRIDAY 4:00-5:00pm arrive at Eastover Farm 6:30pm Dinner at Woodward House (2 miles away) SATURDAY Talks - Lunch - and hanging out at farm 5:30 ends. 6:00 Early casual dinner at Good Enough to Eat, a restaurant on way to =he highway. People can get back to Boston or NY by 10pm. Please advise if you can attend. EDGE will pick up your transportation =osts and room charges at a nearby hotel for Friday night. Best, JB John Brockman 0.•••••• • ao• 0. "IMP. •••••••••••"/./..,..4•••••••••••", V OW•••••• • 4.0.•••••••I President brockm Edge Foundation, Inc. to 260 Fifth Avenue fax: New York, NY 10001 Visit EDGE at: http://www.edge.org=?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <IDOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <pl ist version=.0"> <dict> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1377278986</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>27</integer> <integer>7</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>334862</string> </dict> </plist> 3 EFTA_R1_02106996 EFTA02707915