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From: To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: An innovative webseries needs your help Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 02:51:42 +0000 Forwarded message From: Jean-Francois Gariepy Date: Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 9:37 AM Subject: An innovative webseries needs your help To: Jeffrey_@jef yspstein.org Dear Mr. Epstein, I am writing to you along with my colleague Diana Xie to ask if you would be willing to support an innovative webseries that seeks to bring prominent neuroscientists and philosophers to discuss their research on the Internet in an informal setting. These discussions are edited to help the general public understand the scientific concepts being discussed and are published for free on the web every month. Our show, the first of its kind, has been backed by many prominent scientists and we now have 30 days to fund a $25,000 Kickstarter campaign at http://kickstarter.neuro.tv The objective of NEURON, a registered non-profit, is to remove the barrier between academia and the general public, by communicating fascinating aspects of neuroscience while giving both novice and experienced scientists the opportunity to learn how to frame their cutting-edge research in a way that is accessible for everyone. The webseries is currently published on the BrainFacts.org blog (an initiative supported by the Society for Neuroscience, Kavli Foundation and Gatsby Foundation), iTunes YouTube and our official website http://neuro.tv. We have already received numerous praise from distinguished scientists, including those who have been or will be featured on on our show. We will also be premiering the campaign during our founder Jean-Francois Gariepy's invited keynote address for Brain Awareness Week at Neuroscience 2013, in San Diego. We are still looking for a main institution or foundation to sponsor the project, and any donation you may be able to give to our Kickstarter campaign would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to contact us at diana@neuro.tv or jf©neuro.tv if you require further information. Thank you for considering our request and giving your time. Your contribution to the campaign will mean very much to us. People appearing In the Kickstarter campaign: • Nicholas C. Spitzer, Distinguished Professor, Section of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego • Edvard Moser & May-Britt Moser, co-directors of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology • Sebastian Seung, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, MIT (upcoming) • Steven Pinker, Professor, Harvard University • Michael L. Platt, Professor and Director of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University Sincerely, Jean-Francois Gariepy, Ph. D., Postdoc Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University brainfacts.org/authorlga http://twitter.com/JFGariepy Diana L. Xie, Research Assistant Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University B.S. Biology & Pharmacology http://twitter.com/DianaLXie EFTA00675528