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To: " '[email protected]] Jeffrey Epsteinbeeyacation©gmail.corn] Cc: From: Christakis, Nicholas Sent Fri 8/2/2013 12:12:56 PM Subject Re: introduction — follow-up Dear Jeff: The editor wrote the provocative title, but this NYT Op-Ed from last week captures some of my thoughts about how the social sciences are evolving, and must evolve, given developments in the natural sciences. I thought I would share it: http://www.nyt imes.com/2013 /07/21/opinion/sunday/lets-shake-up-the-soe ial- sciences.html? r=0 I don't want to swamp you with links because I know you are terribly busy, but if you want more nuance than 800 words allows, I make the argument at greater length here (in the first 8 minutes): http://www.edge.org/conversati on fa-21 st-century-change-to-social-science Also, as I mentioned in the piece, various labs, including my own, have continued to spearhead the move to use Amazon Mechanical Turk workers as a pool of research subjects in diverse projects; for example, here is a recent PNAS paper that shows how the topology of interactions between members of a group can be affirmatively manipulated to elicit desirable properties (such as cooperation): httn://humannaturelab.net/wp-content/themes/human-nature- lab'mcdialpdfpublications articles/I 26.pdf We have also been developing ways that AMT workers can be used as a ready pool of subjects for real-time pedagogic purposes, with novel software (as alluded to in the piece). I'd still welcome the chance to meet with you (and Linda?) to discuss some of our ideas, if you have the time and interest, and I can easily come into NYC since I have now moved to New Haven. Best, Nicholas P.S. This is my new email address. On Apr 23, 2013, at 6:19 AM 4/23/13, Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> wrote: look forward to a face to face, lets shoot for may 3rd if you are in cambridge I will come up On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Christakis, Nicholas wrote: EFTA_R1_02203347 EFTA02720207  dear all: i just had a really stimulating late-night meeting with barnaby and -- for which my thanks. ?d welcome the chance to have a conversation with you, jeff. james and i have been collaborators of martin nowak's for some time. our own work is focused on the deep mathematical and biological/genetic rules governing how human assemble themselves into social networks -- and what our embeddedness in these networks means for our lives, how it affects everything from our propensity to cooperate to our risk of epidemic diseases to our ability to innovate. it's hard to communicate how exciting (we think) and relevant this work is via email (linda or bamaby could weigh in since they know your interests better than i do), but here is an 18 minute TED talk on one idea james and i have been pursuing: http://‘“‘ w.ted.com/talks/nicholas christakis how social networks_predict epid cmics.hnnl and here is a link to a recent Nature paper of ours: http://humannaturelab.net/wp- content/themes/human-nature-lab/media/pdf/publications/articles/127.pdf best, nicholas ***************************************************************************** Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science Department of Sociology, Yale University Department of Medicine, Yale University Yale Institute for Network Science New Haven, CT 06520-8263 tel: fax EFTA_R1_02203348 EFTA02720208 email lab: p: ww-w, umannature a .net twitter: @NAChristakis EFTA_R1_02203349 EFTA02720209