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From: Lesley Groff
To: "Brockman, Inc./Edge Foundation Brockman, John" <
Subject: Jeffrey Epstein
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:16:36 +0000
Hi John...Jeffrey is requesting I get the Sat. schedule from you...I have the below from the Save the Date
email..but is there anything you would like to add in?
Begin forwarded message:
From: Lesley Groff <
Subject: Fwd: save the date
Date: August 27, 2013 11:29:53 AM EDT
To: Lesley Groff <
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From: Lesley Groff
Date: August 26, 2013, 6:10:36 PM EDT
To: Larry Visoski Larry <IIMI
>
Subject: Fwd: save the date
Here is the email for the invite to Eastover Farm...I think if you click on the link in text you may be able to
find address somewhere?
See:hap:II
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From: John Brockman
Subject: Fwd: save the date
Date: August 23, 2013 1:29:24 PM EDT
To: Jeffrey Epstein
Cc: Lesley Groff
JE,
In car to airport. ON cell. About to call you. Here's the list to date, and below is the plan.
JB
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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
Laurie Santos
Philip Tetlock
Dear xxx„
Danny Kahneman and Anne Treisman will be our houseguests at Eastover Farm in Bethlehem, CT the
Friday September 6- Saturday, Septmeber 7th, and I want to plan something entertaining and interesting.
I have in mind a rehearsal, or dry run, for a possible annual event which would be a weekend that focuses on
state of art of what the social sciences have to tell us about human nature in the past year or two. For want of
something more serious, it's "THE HEAD CONFERENCE" or "HEADCON". We would host a couple of
dinners Fri and Sat nights, and on Saturday, a day of hanging out at the Farm. During those periods, there
would be a series of talks by the invited guests. EDGE would pick up hotel room charges and transportation
expenses.
Some background: In 1992, when the physicist George Smoot announced his findings from the COBE
satellite regarding cosmic background radiation and the beginning of time, I left a message on the voicemail
of the late, great Sidney Coleman of Harvard : "Sidney, I hear there's something new in the Universe. What
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is it?. And what's in it for me?" The message went viral after Sidney posted it on the electronic bulletin
board of the physics community.
My question was inspired by an annual event in Italy for leading physicists where Sidney gave the keynote
talk. The topic of his lecture was essentially "What's new in the Universe?" Sidney would detail the
advances and developments in the past year or two across many areas of physics.
In this case, I would be asking you, and the other guests, to give a half hour talk responding to a similar
question:
"What's new in your field of social science in the last year or two, and why should I care? Why do I want or
need to know about it and how does it change my view of human nature'?
I would ask you to focus broadly and address the major developments in your entire field (including but not
at all limited to your own research agenda). It would have to be new, fresh, and original: an up-to-date field
report on your area of social science. This talk should be, to the extent possible, conversational, and not a
canned Power-Point or slide-driven conference talk. We would videotape the entire event and present the
videos and texts as an EDGE Special Event.
For this dry run, on September 6 & 7 we're focusin on one da re licating the usual Edge Events at
Eastover Farm. See:http:/
To date, the following are confirmed. Awaiting word from a number of others:
Daniel Dennett
Jennifer Jacquet
Danny Kahneman
Joshua Knobe
Rob Kurzban
David Pizarro
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 the highway. People can get back to
Boston or NY by 1 Opm.
Please advise if you can attend. EDGE will pick up your transportation costs and room charges at a nearby
hotel for Friday night.
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Best,
JB
John Brockman
President
Edge Foundation, Inc.
260 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
Visit EDGE at: http://www.edge.org
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