Today, I am excited to host Bert Jacobs. Bert is the cofounder and chief executive optimist of Life is Good, which spreads the power of optimismthrough inspiring art, a passionate community, and groundbreaking nonprofit work.
through inspiring art, a passionate community, and groundbreaking nonprofit work. Bert and his brother launched their business with only $78 in their pockets, selling t-shirts in the streets of Boston.Today, Life is Good is a $150 million positive lifestyle brand that positively impacts over 1 million kids a year.
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than my weaknesses. Fizz, you have weaknesses and you have strengths. Bert was kind of like an old-fashioned-- I should be like a 90-year-old guy.
What was the best and the worst part of celebrity? Bert Jansch, John Renbourn.
Female Presenter: It's a good reference, influence. Bert and Ernie. Will Guidara: It's the sweater that he's wearing.And then it--.
They're competing over resources that predicts things like diabetes. Bertrand Russell got it right. And that really is what I do in "The Power Paradox," is say, if this is the basic medium, what are the laws?
theories of physics. Some people talked about it. Bertrand Russell liked to emphasize it. He was primarily a philosopher, but a mathematical philosopher who knew a lot of physics.
But we're extremely different. Bertrand is a psychiatrist, American doctor. Maybe he has more the dimension of the humanist.
And I think in terms of flying, that's the same. Bertrand comes from the low-speed airplane, but the airplane also where you have to discover the flying qualities, the envelope. I'm coming, maybe, from the fast airplane.
And no one could land this airplane. Bertrand will certainly find another strategy.
And no one could land this airplane. Bertrand is using other techniques for that that he'll certainly use when he does his training in the simulator this fall.
Quote: They must dismiss the people and elect another one. Bertolt Brecht. That being impossible, they often fall. Or a civil war begins.' 'Surely the literature on revolutions can't be this superficial.' Swan said.
just to go okay yeah it was a mistake we learn from it we move on and there was never any kind of you know brow beating or Bert riding us because we screwed up and and so we didn't really have too many rules and it was just very entrepreneurial very uh you know Innovative everything we did was kind of new and and but we did have one rule and
he's like you know cinnamon and oregano and that kind of stuff and so it's kind of like you know that that that is just how Bert was we're going to put herbs and spices in this to make it high-tech because you can't just have body putting for thermal protection so yes the the red stuff on there is body putty with red dye oregano cinnamon and actually I
But yet you're not driving to go get a pack of cigarettes. And Bertha was on this board preparing for the World's Fair in Chicago, 1893.
All of this can be calming and help reduce anxiety. Cécile Bertin runs the pilot program at the Alzheimer's village. Care and support cost about 40% more than in a traditional nursing home.
and so. At the beginning of the story, It had the lowest R&D productivity in the industry. Mark Bertolini becomes the CEO of that now leading health insurance company in the United States near the end of 2010.
and so. At the beginning of the story, It had the lowest R&D productivity in the industry. Behind Bertolini's thinking is the old John F. Kennedy line, the best time to fix your roof is when the sun is shining.
Well, yeah, I mean, Bertram and Elise, you know, they work with a fantastic team. And Bertram takes the first hand at sketching out where he wants to go. And then from there, everybody supports him and looking for great stories and great ideas.
Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce. Mark Bertolini, the CEO of Aetna. It is really truly amazing.
But I just was so excited-- more about being in this environment, feeling like I have contemporaries around me who business understand the element of risk. Alberto Bertini, my friend from Australia, big developer.
MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER #1: So what was the Neolithic discovery? Sharon Bertsch McGrayne: It was that the--. It had happened all of a sudden, within a short time period five thousand, five hundred years ago. And that instead of their being used for rites over the ages and built over the ages, that they'd actually been built and abandoned in this very short time period.
MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER #2: OK. So--. Sharon Bertsch McGrayne: Now remember I'm not a mathematician. MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER #2: So, my training actually is mathematics and we have, our controversies are, we have what's called the axiom of choice which is about the behavior of infinite sets
MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER #2: So, my training actually is mathematics and we have, our controversies are, we have what's called the axiom of choice which is about the behavior of infinite sets Sharon Bertsch McGrayne: It's very odd because a whole class of people, physicists, did use Bayes'. And they used it even before the Second World War. Fermi used to do computations if
MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER #2: So, my training actually is mathematics and we have, our controversies are, we have what's called the axiom of choice which is about the behavior of infinite sets Sharon Bertsch McGrayne: Was it real data? Well, I guess he had his machines recording it, but I think the statisticians don't record it, regard it as real data at all. The same
MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER #2: So, my training actually is mathematics and we have, our controversies are, we have what's called the axiom of choice which is about the behavior of infinite sets Sharon Bertsch McGrayne: Good. Good.
MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER #2: So, my training actually is mathematics and we have, our controversies are, we have what's called the axiom of choice which is about the behavior of infinite sets Sharon Bertsch McGrayne: Howard Raiffa gives his--. I was in a totally different kind of meeting and someone asked what I was working on and I said Bayes' rule. And he said, "Oh,
that Bertrand Russell who perhaps the greatest philosopher of of that time
wonderful berte that is Jenis his wife who was Mongol um by the way how many people saw the film here do have a look
And Ben Bert is an absolute genius, as are just pretty much any sound designer and all the folks that work behind the scenes on all these things.
And I think Bert -- I start the first essay I write about is the sounds of the blasters.
Other than Bert , are there any other people behind the scenes you think should be less unsung heroes?
Wassel says he got Bert Berns started in the music business.
was worried that it wouldn't behave the way that we thought it would and um I was very delighted to find that it weirder things that Bert had thought about uh as far as personal man spacecraft but uh it really quick when it started to get serious and when he
And this is Bert Tolkamp, one of the researchers who flew from Edinburgh to Cambridge here to hastily finish up his acceptance speech
Six Paul Bert , Septime, and wine bars.
Female Presenter: It's really sweet. It's like Bert and Ernie. Will Guidara: Thank you.
Monsieur and Madame Bertier.
This is my friend Bertolt Meyer.
We have Andre Borschberg, who flies jets, so Hawker Hunters, F-5's at one end of the envelope. And we have Bertrand Piccard, world-record-setting balloonist, first to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon. And together, they have collaborated on a remarkable project that lives in yet another corner of the aeronautical envelope.
And I worked at Bertelsmann, I worked at Sony, I worked at Time/Warner.
the wide berth of Park Avenue speeding past streaks of light shadows of bodies
Because as Bertrand Russell pointed out over a century ago, there's such a bewildering number of religions on offer, making mutually incompatible claims about the nature of reality
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Or my older brothers Ed and Alan-- they'd say, where's Ed and Alan? And it was John and Bert . We were together. We had bunk beds together and we really became best friends.
We can have Ernie and Bert hanging out.
is B Grant that's right Bert Grant um in Yakima was the first brew pub since
comes to train sporters I'm a Bert that was my other favorite term which is your average traveler that's intent only on
was just literally we put it on because we ran out of time and lo and behold this stuff works and so in classic Bert fashion I walked in I'm like Bert you're not going to believe this this stuff works better than anything we've we've tried he said well that's not going to work he's like this is this is a spaceship it has to be high-tech you can't have thermal protection that's just body putty he's like run down to