<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Folks,</div><div><br></div><div>Kendall put together a database of thousands of biologists at universities and we just sent them the note below.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, Kendall!</div><div><br></div><div>Phil</div><div><br></div>I'm writing with a special request regarding a campaign that a ragtag group of volunteers on Facebook has created - along with support from E.O. Wilson, Sean Carroll and media partners like National Geographic. The campaign is <a href="http://readingodyssey.createsend4.com/t/r/l/dykjli/l/r" target="_blank">Darwin150</a> and our goal is to gather millions online to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species." <br><br><div>While acknowledging that you don't know us, we would like to ask for your help.</div><br><div>1. Help us get to 1 million members on Facebook</div><div>We already have over 250,000 members on our Darwin Facebook group, and want to get to 1 million members by November 24th to show the breadth and depth of support for evolutionary theory and the significance of Darwin's great book. </div><br><div>Even if you don't use Facebook yourself, please pass this e-mail to your students, postdocs, fellow faculty and others and ask them to join our group on Facebook.</div><br><div>The link to join our Facebook group is here:</div><div><a href="http://readingodyssey.createsend4.com/t/r/l/dykjli/l/y" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53320310123</a></div><br><div>2. Join our lecture series</div><br><div>We have designed a free lecture series, available live via webcast and teleconference, on the following dates:</div><br><div>- Wednesday, September 16. "<a href="http://readingodyssey.createsend4.com/t/r/l/dykjli/l/j" target="_blank" title="The World Before Darwin registration link">The World before Darwin</a>", Prof. Everett</div><div>Mendelsohn, Harvard, 8PM EST</div><div>- Wednesday, October 7, "<a href="http://readingodyssey.createsend4.com/t/r/l/dykjli/l/t" target="_blank" title="Variation by Jonanthan Weiner registration link">Variation</a>", Prof. Weiner, Columbia, 8PM EST</div><div>- Wednesday, November 4, "<a href="http://readingodyssey.createsend4.com/t/r/l/dykjli/l/i" target="_blank" title="Sean Carroll lecture registration link">Natural Selection</a>" Prof. Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin, 8PM EST</div><div>- Tuesday, November 24 - "<a href="http://readingodyssey.createsend4.com/t/r/l/dykjli/l/d" target="_blank" title="E.O. Wilson registration link">Frontiers of Biology</a>", E.O. Wilson et al, Harvard, 1PM EST </div><br><div>We'd love to have you and your classes join us for any or all of these lectures.</div><br><div>To register to join the lecture, click on the links above or visit this page for more details:</div><div><a href="http://readingodyssey.createsend4.com/t/r/l/dykjli/l/h" target="_blank">http://www.darwin150.com/events</a></div><br><div>3. Consider hosting an event at your university</div><br><div>St. Louis University, for example, is organizing an auditorium for each of the lecture dates above and inviting all students to come to listen to each lecture together.</div><br><div>We'd love for you to consider doing the same.</div><br><div>The event on November 24, the actual publication anniversary, is at 1PM on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, which may be a perfect time to gather students to celebrate this momentous occasion.</div><br><div>Would you like to consider hosting an event at your school to bring students and faculty together to participate in one or more of these lectures?</div><br><div>[ ] Yes, please get in touch with more details</div><div>[ ] Maybe, please get in touch with more details</div><br><div>Again, the link to the lecture series is here:</div><div><a href="http://readingodyssey.createsend4.com/t/r/l/dykjli/l/k" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; ">http://www.darwin150.com/events</a><br></div><br><div>Thanks to our sponsors for helping to make this campaign possible: National Geographic, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Citrix Online and their HiDef teleconferencing division, Campaign Monitor and our advisor, Harvard Professor John Dowling.</div><br><div>And thanks to you for taking a moment to read and consider this invitation from our volunteer - and ragtag - Darwin150 campaign. For all the details about our project, go to<a href="http://www.Darwin150.org/">www.Darwin150.org</a>. </div><br><div>Best,</div><br><div>Phil Terry</div><div>Creator, Darwin150 Campaign</div><div>Founder, Reading Odyssey</div><div><a href="mailto://pterry@readingodyssey.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://readingodyssey.createsend4.com/t/r/l/dykjli/l/u"></a><a href="mailto:pterry@readingodyssey.com">pterry@readingodyssey.com</a></div><div><a href="http://readingodyssey.createsend4.com/t/r/l/dykjli/l/o" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53320310123</a></div><div><a href="http://readingodyssey.createsend4.com/t/r/l/dykjli/l/b" target="_blank">http://www.Darwin150.com</a></div><br><div>P.S. Scientists who have participated in our campaign, helped us design the series or lent us their name/support for our efforts this year include:</div><br><div>- Dr. George Amato, American Museum of Natural History</div><div>- Professor Baker, Columbia; Director, Coral Research Lab</div><div>- Professor Sean B. Carroll, University of Wisconsin</div><div>- Professor Rodolfo Dirzo at Stanford</div><div>- Professor John Dowling at Harvard</div><div>- Dr. John Durant, MIT Museum</div><div>- Professor Marc Hauser at Harvard</div><div>- Professor Jonathan Losos at Harvard</div><div>- Professor Everett Mendelsohn at Harvard</div><div>- Professor Olsen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University</div><div>- Dr. Ploegh, Whitehead Institute, MIT</div><div>- Professor Peter Raven at Washington University, President Missouri</div><div>Botanical Garden</div><div>- Professor Maryellen Ruvolo at Harvard</div><div>- John Rennie, Editor-in-Chief, Scientific American</div><div>- Professor Laurie Santos at Yale</div><div>- Professor Jonathan Weiner, Columbia (author "Beak of the Finch")</div><div>- Professor E.O. Wilson, Harvard</div><p>This email was sent to <a href="mailto:pterry@creativegood.com">pterry@creativegood.com</a>. 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