How native speakers pronounce “century”

Around the world, there were no public systems of education, really, before the 19th century. They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and generally have a complete digital picture of everything that's happening. In the 20th century, we built transportation infrastructure. We built power infrastructure.

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

thrived for thousands of years. But 20th-century markets for seafood beyond the bay upended the system. More recently, the bay has been known for brown tides

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

An argument that some have called the most important decision the Supreme Court has made in a century. When I walked into the court that day,

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

In the case of our nation, it took centuries. We had to live occupied and under oppression for century after century. But we never gave up on our identity.

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

and ended up defeating the previously undefeated great Ali in the fight of the century. So next time you hear a gloomy prediction about the social world,

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

our ability to remember things doesn't seem very impressive at all. 19th century psychologist Herman Ebbinghaus demonstrated that we normally forget 40% of new material

The benefits of a good night's sleep - Shai Marcu

Let's go to China. At the beginning of this century, there were no Chinese billionaires on the Forbes list,

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

that would turn them into brothers. About a century ago, friends would sit for portraits like these,

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

It might sound like a funny question, but we have to ask ourselves: Is there any 21st-century skill more important than being able to sustain coherent, confident conversation?"

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

It's doing exactly what it was designed to do over a century ago. It was built for the factory age

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

wants schools that keep growing with the world around them. School cannot be something we redesign once a century. We need community-based design as a muscle,

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

And all you have to do is look at the very grim death count in the 20th century alone, of really magnificent creative minds who died young and often at their own hands, you know?

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

And I also think it's dangerous, and I don't want to see it perpetuated into the next century. I think it's better if we encourage our great creative minds to live.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

pandemic and its aftermath is that for the first time in a century the entire planet has been going through a life

Lifequakes

out in the open. You know, in the last century, one of the greatest intellectual adventures

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

to understand it, from quarks to cosmology. I think one of the greatest intellectual adventures of this century will lie in humanity peering inwards,

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

meaning would become one of the defining books of the century as Frankel wrote you do not have to suffer to learn

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for a lot of history, medicines were cure-alls, right? Like, the 19th-century patent medicine that was, like, for your indigestion and your infertility, and your da da da.

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

And every single nation in the world, 195 nations, agreed to try to get to net zero by mid-century. And let me deal with the elephant in the room.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

just from the loss of the value of global housing properties. And over the next half century, according to Deloitte, it would cost the economy 178 trillion dollars if we don't act.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

But depending on whether or not we act, 80 percent of all those glaciers will disappear in this century. We can act.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

more productive towards the end of the 19th century Frederick Taylor an American inventor

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supply chains in chaos, the worst economic depression in a century. And the danger is more than economic.

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

united by the shared values and common resolve that we've shared for the better part of a century. Our defenders, the men and the women

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

Shaw's prediction in the 21st century humans will only need to work two hours a day

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Thirty Years Later John Maynard Keynes agreed he predicted that his 21st century grandchildren would work just 15 hours a week

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here we are now in the actual 21st century and the long promised age of leisure is nowhere to be seen

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and more comfortable life than 19-century royalty. Others might be asking, quite reasonably,

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

But first I need to set the scene. Let's look at a day in the life of a 21st-century knowledge worker. I arrive at my office and look at my inbox full of emails.

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

Take, for example, the Human Genome Project, one of the biggest breakthroughs of the last century. We spent over a decade mapping out all three billion letters of our genome,

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

Peaceful, rational species brings us technology and saves us from ourselves and brings on this century of discovery or millennia of discovery.

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

is using the same tools that the military industrial complex has used over the last century in terms of you have to create an enemy,

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

but if you make me laugh hard enough, sometimes I forget what century I'm in. This isn't my first time here. This isn't my last time here.

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

by starting with this quote by Voltaire, an 18th century Enlightenment philosopher, who said, "Common sense is not so common."

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED · TED

And it goes like this: if a newspaper came out once a century, what would the front page banner headline be?

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

Today, it's just over 70. So in one century, we doubled global life expectancy.

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

of how we conquered one of the most terrifying threats of the 19th century. Milk.

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

Now, we think of milk as this kind of emblem of health and vitality, but in fact, in the middle of the 19th century, milk was a serious health threat, particularly to children.

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

Now, if that seems contradictory to you, I suggest that you flip through the pages of any pharmaceutical drug catalog from the early 20th century. I mean, these things are just a laundry list of deadly poisons,

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

Or my personal favorite, you pick up the phone, like it’s the 20th century, and you say, “Congratulations,

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

We're building one from scratch. Sometimes people say that data or chips are the 21st century’s new oil, but that's totally the wrong image.

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

our curiosity and our creativity. This, I would argue, is the greatest challenge of the 21st century, but also the most wonderful,

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

In the late 19th century, scientists were trying to solve a mystery. They found that if they had a vacuum tube like this one

The case for curiosity-driven research | Suzie Sheehy

But the question was: What were they made of? In England, the 19th-century physicist J.J. Thompson conducted experiments using magnets and electricity, like this.

The case for curiosity-driven research | Suzie Sheehy

"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible." And over a century ago, J.J. Thompson did just that, when he pulled back the veil on the subatomic world.

The case for curiosity-driven research | Suzie Sheehy

And we'll need to encourage more people to join us in studying science since we need fresh eyes on these century-old problems. I don't have the answers, and I'm still searching for them.

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

because national parks are very carefully managed in the 21st century. Crater Lake in southern Oregon, which is my closest national park,

Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

we found a very different story. All across the globe, for over a century, scientists have been introducing and reintroducing plants and animals

Ryan Phelan: The intended consequences of helping nature thrive | TED · TED

to use chocolate as a symbol for a social union. This image was made between the 13th century and the early 16th century,

Germán Santillán: A taste of Mexico's ancient chocolate-making tradition | TED · TED

This image was made between the 13th century and the early 16th century, and it is part of the “Zouche-Nuttall Codex.”

Germán Santillán: A taste of Mexico's ancient chocolate-making tradition | TED · TED

in multicultural communities, forging what the 14th-century Islamic historian Ibn Khaldūn called asabiyya, an Arabic term meaning "collective solidarity" or group feeling,

Lessons From History for a Better Future | Roman Krznaric | TED · TED

So you know we can see prospects for a different kind of economy in 18th-century Edo, Japan, and for cultural coexistence in medieval Islamic Spain.

Lessons From History for a Better Future | Roman Krznaric | TED · TED

And wouldn't it be fascinating to visit a "History for Tomorrow Museum," which explores how history can help us confront 21st-century challenges, from the ecological crisis

Lessons From History for a Better Future | Roman Krznaric | TED · TED