How native speakers pronounce “called”

who had been hit by a car, and he needed help. So we brought Bean, that's what we called him, home to my college house.

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when I was young there was an amazing publication called the whole earth catalog which was one of the Bibles of

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

(Laughter) Actually, we lived in a place called Snitterfield, just outside Stratford,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

By the way, there's a shaft of nerves that joins the two halves of the brain, called the corpus callosum. It's thicker in women.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

it's distinct. I'm doing a new book at the moment called "Epiphany," which is based on a series of interviews with people

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and Danny shared with me that he'd been practicing something called prospective hindsight. (Laughter)

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who had written about it a few years before, also called the pre-mortem. Now, you all know what the postmortem is.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

based on the way our spatial memory works. There's a structure in the brain called the hippocampus, that evolved over tens of thousands of years,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

two weeks every year he called them his think weeks during these Retreats he would read

Slow Thinking

I can look and see whatever I want to see. So the thing that allowed me to do this is called a dock. So this is the dock here.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

So in this instance, a train operator called 911 in a panic, afraid that he might have hit something or someone on the tracks.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

on tour regularly since 1992. This one for a novel I wrote called State of Wonder was going to be my

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

when I served as the chief scientist of NOAA in 1990, I was called the Sturgeon General. (Laughter)

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almost always comes from outside the inner circle. New things come from what are called our weak ties, our friends of friends of friends.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

computers and tablets on kids' desks. This is the so-called one-to-one device policies. Computers and tablets are multi-function

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

like reading a book. I teach a course at NYU called Flourishing, and 2 years ago we were

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

I'm talking about everything from "The Notebook" to "Twilight" to a show some of you may remember called "The Flavor of Love." (Laughter)

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

One time I went on vacation, and by the time I got back, they'd called off their wedding. But why?

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

Self-interest, transaction, recognition and then humanity. And I called it STIR on purpose, because if you do not stir the room,

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

"Why don't we just stand here and compliment each other? If you hear your name called, go and pick up your gift and sit down."

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

Well, there were 40 of us to start with, and every time I heard someone's name called, I would give out the heartiest cheer.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

Then I found this website by luck. It's called rejectiontherapy.com. (Laughter)

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

for the first time in that itty-bitty little one percent of cancers called sarcoma. In 1966, Peyton Rous got the Nobel Prize

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

that the position you sleep in reflects your personality. For example, preferring to snooze in the so-called royal position indicated self-confidence,

What’s the best position to sleep in? - Rachel Marie E. Salas

As the sun sets, your eyes send signals about the dwindling light to a part of your brain called suprachiasmatic nucleus. This is basically your circadian rhythm’s clock.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

At the same time, neurons in the hypothalamus and brain stem release a compound called GABA. This slows down activity in your brain and can have a calming effect.

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

Throughout the day, your brain has been releasing a waste product called adenosine. The more adenosine latching onto receptors in your brain,

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

Right now these dates and names are being stored in an area of the brain called the hippocampus. Normally when you go to sleep, memories like these are consolidated

What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild

one argument. An argument that some have called the most important decision the Supreme Court has made in a century.

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

What's really cool is that there's a highly effective therapy called cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, or CBT-I, It doesn’t have any medications involved.

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and helping them to fall asleep more easily. They’re called ASMR artists, and they have millions of followers.

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

For you, yeah. It is called, “Weekend à Paris.” “Weekend in Paris.”

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

So fascinated, in fact, that I started a weekly YouTube series called "Gross Science," all about the slimy, smelly, creepy underbelly

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

Analyzed closely as assertions, they are what philosophers called “speech acts.” That is, language that does something other than describe the world.

Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED · TED

are actually suffering from a less common genetic problem called delayed sleep phase disorder, or DSPD. People with DSPD have a circadian rhythm significantly longer than 24 hours,

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

(Laughter) During COVID, Kanye West called me maybe every other day. We talked about an hour at a time, mostly about how he thinks he was richer

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

(Applause) So we've created something called True Net Worth, and we're going to debut it right here.

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

But that was the moment where it went viral. Today, the project is called OpenClaw. It's pretty much the fastest-growing open-source project.

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

In China, installing OpenClaw is called raising lobsters. (Laughter)

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

You don't believe me? There's a book called "Get Married." And it came out, of course, on Valentine's Day.

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

From the recovery room, I called Afghan women I knew, activists who were working around the country.

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

(Laughter) Instead, you want to use what's called a relational ask. A relational ask is easily the most well-hidden secret in negotiation.

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

From China to Jordan to England, there was a practice called “sworn brotherhood,” where male friends would go through a ritual

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

A few years ago, I signed up for something called a 360 review. (Laughter)

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

But it only got worse. I was called emotionally guarded, a diva and an authoritarian. (Quiet laughter)

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

You can start to feel yourself getting a little tingly just with the mere thought of being called upon today? Hey, a few of you.

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

that has been shown to boost your capacity for warmth. It’s called “loving-kindness,” which, as you might imagine, sounded to me like Valentine's Day with a gun to my head.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

based on reading all the research on friendship, is something called the “liking gap,” which is a phenomenon wherein when strangers interact and predict

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

And so indeed, it became this self-fulfilling prophecy called the “acceptance prophecy”. And when we assume we'll be liked,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

And then one last thing I have to remind myself of was to overcome something called “covert avoidance,” which is our tendency to show up around other people physically,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

MF: Yeah. So Harry Stack Sullivan, he's a psychiatrist, and he has this theory called the “theory of chums,” which is basically that our chums or our friends earlier in life,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

that only have that close connection with their spouse, they have high rates of what's called concordance, which means that, however your spouse feels is kind of how you feel.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

And so, just to go even deeper into the research rabbit hole, there’s a theory called “risk regulation theory,” which indicates that we decide how much to invest in a relationship

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

Because when you find something that's repeated over time, what happens is something called the “mere exposure effect” sets in. The mere exposure effect describes our tendency to unconsciously,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

they tend to assume other people like them. I talked about something called pronoia, which is the opposite of paranoia. It's the idea that, you know,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

Is that maybe you right now? I have something called the Alarm Clock Checklist, intended to wake you up

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

Author and activist Susan McPherson wrote a book called "The Lost Art of Connecting." In it, she says, we are much more interconnected than we realize,

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

We can hint at it. We don't even have to do it. We can experience that powerful thing called anticipation, which is a mortar to desire.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

novelty, curiosity, mystery. But the central agent is really that piece called the imagination. But more importantly, for me to begin to understand

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

to have to talk about this, maybe with a little bit of humor. Or let’s say you get called on in a meeting and whoops, you totally zoned out.

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

You are watching a TED Interview series called "How to Deal with Difficult Feelings." I'm your host, Cloe Shasha Brooks, and a curator at TED.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

Let's dive right in. You coauthored a book called "Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle." And the inspiration for this book was actually based on

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

because you can deal with the stress while the stressor still exists. Good thing, because most of our stressors are what are called "chronic stressors," that are there day after day, week after week, year after year.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

And none of it happened by accident. I lead a school design organization called Transcend. And when we began working with the Brooklyn community,

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

in a study designed to stress you out. It's called the social stress test. You come into the laboratory,

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

I decided to investigate. I became a mentor for an afterschool program called My Brother's Keeper. And in this space, we could have more in-depth conversations.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

Remember her name: Septima Clark. Dr. King called her the "the architect of the civil rights movement," because she created something called Citizenship Schools.

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

Dr. King called her the "the architect of the civil rights movement," because she created something called Citizenship Schools. And in those schools, she taught ordinary women the practical skills

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

I think about this a lot. I'm a labor journalist, and I wrote a book called "The Good Enough Job," in which I spoke to over 100 people

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

the niece who lived with him and looked after him called him "Il Tesoro," "my treasure." And she respected him and loved him,

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

She, at over 100, taught me how to make the local specialty, which is called culurgiones, which are these large pasta pockets

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

And then something that surprised me, something that's called social integration. This means how much you interact with people

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

And the peculiar thing is that I recently wrote this book, this memoir called "Eat, Pray, Love" which, decidedly unlike any of my previous books,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

for distant and unknowable reasons. The Greeks famously called these divine attendant spirits of creativity "daemons." Socrates, famously, believed that he had a daemon

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

The Romans had the same idea, but they called that sort of disembodied creative spirit a genius. Which is great, because the Romans did not actually think

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And when this happened, back then, people knew it for what it was, you know, they called it by its name. They would put their hands together and they would start to chant,

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

So we decided to start an organization called Health Begins, and Health Begins simply does that:

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

having children to losing loved ones vanganep called these moments Rites of Passage which his translator said should

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Passage which his translator said should more accurately be called rights of transition in effect Arnold vanganep invented the

Rites

If you are wondering how we teach these AI systems to detect lies, here is where something called fine-tuning comes in. But let's use a metaphor.

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

developed by Google and called FLAN-T5. Flanny, for friends.

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

a life transition van ganap called them bridges that connect different periods of Our Lives

Superpower

William bridges in his 1980 book transitions called them inner reorientations I like these definitions but to me they

Superpower

Here's an example. I bet many of you might have heard of this so-called marketing funnel. And if not, here's a quick primer.

Love, Trust and Marketing in the Age of AI | Amaryllis Liampoti | TED · TED

Here's another example. There is a legal copilot called maite.ai. Maite has been designed to help lawyers do intensive legal research

Love, Trust and Marketing in the Age of AI | Amaryllis Liampoti | TED · TED

My entire career was making stuff up. They're called cartoons. This is probably the most famous one I hallucinated.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

many people have a hard time accepting what sart called the facticity of their situation a key step to acceptance is to identify

Accept

This cartoon anticipates by five decades what's now called the alignment problem, when the goals of machines and humans go horribly awry,

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

So we're bringing the humanity back to these conversations. I've done that by building a platform called OmniBridge. So my team has established this bridge

How AI Can Bridge the Deaf and Hearing Worlds | Adam Munder | TED · TED

And for me, it's the perfect example of something called the technological gaze at work. What is it?

How Digital Culture Is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies | Elise Hu | TED · TED

that I'd never even heard about during medical school, called Castleman disease, where your immune system attacks and shuts down your vital organs

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

for any disease where they believe the benefit outweighs the risk, through something called off-label prescribing, and off-label prescribing is actually very common.

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

actually, from a member of the TED community -- telling me about something called The Audacious Project, which selects ten nonprofits every year, solving the world's biggest challenges.

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

Between this funding from The Audacious Project, and also from a federal agency in the US called ARPA-H, we are building an AI-powered engine to repurpose 15 to 25 treatments by 2030,

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

give a friend of hers advice that friend called me I related my experience he related his and he thanked

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exposing their skeletons and turning them white, a phenomenon called coral bleaching. Now a bleached coral isn't dead, but it is sick and starving.

A New Lifeline for the World’s Coral Reefs | Theresa Fyffe | TED · TED

went on to write a salacious account of his early life in a memoir called the confessions Augustine in effect wrote the first autobiography

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that Black American gangs aren't inherently violent. Less than three to five percent of so-called gang members are actually committing violent crime.

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

fundamentally autobiographical occasions their moments when we're called on to revisit and rewrite the story of who we

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You see, violence is about proximity. I had known most of my so-called enemies my entire life, from school and from the neighborhood.

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED