Garrett Lisi on his theory of everything

Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu

Your theory of everything Garrett Lisi I'm used to coral.

Garrett Hardin used it to talk about overpopulation in the late 1960s.

What is it that is expected of us by the billions of people who live in what Laurie Garrett the other day so appropriately called despair and disparity?

On Wednesday, I learned from Laurie Garrett that I'm definitely going to get the bird flu, and I wouldn't be at all worried about that if we never had any contact with Asia.

Physicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that just maybe answers all the big questions. If nothing else, it's the most beautiful 8 dimensional model of elementary particles and forces you've ever seen.

In 2007, as the world worried about a possible avian flu epidemic, Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague, gave this powerful talk to a small TED University audience. Her insights from past pandemics are suddenly more relevant than ever.

And one of the things Laurie Garrett pointed out, and others have, is that a society that doesn't have people of working age is in real trouble. And things are going to get worse, because there's nobody to educate the children or to feed the old.