<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>John Brockman at.</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Saturday, February 28, 2015 4:04 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>Epstein Jeffrey</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Re: Confidential - The Annual Dinner</td></tr></table>

»how are =ou. I wont be there this year. . will be in =anta fe, with chomsky and group

I would much rather be with Chomsky and =ou any day. TED, more and more is becoming a goyshekopf cult (even for =he few Jews that still attend). But wait a minute - are you going to =et along with Chomsky over Israel? Or, more likely, is that why you are =aving the meeting?

Things here are great. I am very pleased about it. Maybe I =hould auction off naming rights.

Funny thing happened with EDGE. In the =ast year or so according to Google Analytics, it's advanced to the =ageRank 8/10, reserved to mega-websites (think ESPN, AOL), and/or major =ublications with hundreds, if not thousands of employees. EDGE, as far =s I can tell, is the only independent website with a 7-10 PageRank =hich indicates that it has the same importance and influence as The =conomist, FT, Le Monde, Sueddeutsche Zeitung. Wall Street Journal, =ashington Post. Yearly Readers: 1.7m. Go figure. It goes without =aying, of course, that without your moral support and not just money, =t never would have happened. Thank you.

## JB

p.s. Seth Lloyd and Sean Carroll =esterday on Science Friday discussing 'This Scientific Idea Must =ie". bit.ly/lzqdRhm <http://t.co/7D1mXHZ9kx>