How native speakers pronounce “happens”

(Laughter) Truthfully, what happens is, as children grow up, we start to educate them progressively from the waist up.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

Remember, our brain under stress releases cortisol, and one of the things that happens at that moment is a whole bunch on systems shut down.

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

(Laughing) Isn't that true? So what do you think happens when you pat a twentysomething on the head and you say,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

"You have 10 extra years to start your life"? Nothing happens. You have robbed that person of his urgency and ambition,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

You have robbed that person of his urgency and ambition, and absolutely nothing happens. And then every day, smart, interesting twentysomethings

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

rather than just making it work or killing time with whoever happens to be choosing you. So what happened to Emma?

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

My personal motto of the last 15 years is: When shit happens, shine. Meaning, in the worst of times, when really bad things happen,

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

was a potential resolution to this paradox. Social connection, after all, isn't something that just happens to us. It's a choice we make at times

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

And you know what? The next day, no matter what happens, I'm not going to run.

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

not by pushing it all at once, but one shovelful at a time. The way you change how you approach other people happens slowly, over time. One choice after another.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

Remember that a one in a million diagnosis, if it happens twice in one family, is way too common in that family.

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

taxis, rideshares, long-haul trucking, etc. What happens? TM: Yeah, I think, you know, I'll answer the question in a few ways.

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

but they're actually downstream of a much deeper question, which is what happens if AI stays separate from us? Right now, your AI lives on the other side of a screen.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

That's the podium. It also happens to be where I practice law. The most powerful court on earth.

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

might make you energetic and want to clean the house. And just saying, if that happens, feel free to come over to my place. (Laughter)

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

And this is the myth that the brain is a computer that just happens to be made of meat rather than metal. Now consciousness in this story is a special algorithm,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

a collection of computations that just happens to be carried out in the wetware of the brain in us, but which could equally be carried out in silicon, in AI.

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

And while I don't have any concrete data to back up this next idea, I think that for a lot of us, it happens around the time we hit puberty. And you know -- yeah, I know.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

But that doesn't mean that we have to stop. And when this happens, I'm always reminded of the resilience of my nation,

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

at any creature that tries to eat it. But it also happens to be one of the kinkiest creatures in the animal kingdom.

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

that will fulfill his vision of the future. You know, the one that happens to line his pockets. And when you believe that prediction,

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

and have you contemplate what happens if your marriage doesn't last until the end of your life, whether because of divorce or outliving your spouse?

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

And in fact, one study found that people that think that it happens based on luck are actually lonelier five years later,

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

seem like are just really challenging for us to develop. But I guess, can you talk about sort of, why this breakdown happens and really when we start to see that it becomes more difficult

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

when they're the only person that you're looking to for support. And so what happens is like, the natural ebbs and flows that can happen in a marriage,

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

but the cycle is the same. Because what happens when you sideline an ambitious person, an ambitious woman,

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

And as a society, we have been conditioned to avoid discomfort. But remember, it's in those dopamine dips where the transformation happens. So we have to reframe our relationship with discomfort.

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

when I feel my intelligence or my credibility comes into question. This happens because I’m a woman, and I'm bubbly, and I smile a lot, and I chat a lot, and I'm talkative.

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

The third child doesn't really come back. So what happens, if you want to sustain desire, it's that real dialectic piece.

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

And then boom, the inconvenient thing happens. Your child is sick. You're rushing to the vet.

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

This is natural. When this happens, I want you to remember: your work, your life and your relationships

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

And as we continue into our professional lives, another interesting thing happens. Even though our experience and confidence go up,

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

and being able to broaden our view. Now I have another example where this happens, and this is the workplace,

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

OK, so when we're thinking about the workplace, one of the things that always happens is interviews. I've had this conversation with a lot of my clients

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

And then there's your stress, which is the physiological thing that happens in your body in response to any perceived threat.

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

You run, right? So you use all this energy that happens in your body, all this adrenaline and cortisol,

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

Because, as my mentor puts it, what happens in classrooms today is what will happen in society tomorrow.

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

but this is a much healthier cardiovascular profile. It actually looks a lot like what happens in moments of joy and courage.

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

in 500 schools across the country, we've seen what happens when communities design learning

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

Spilled milk or something stickier, stress isn't what happens. It's what you do next.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

and STOP is like a quick one. Like nothing happens if you slow things down, less happens.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

Like nothing happens if you slow things down, less happens. JK: Another round of applause for Dr. Jenny Taitz.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

Sometimes, those conversations in the barbershop would be about what happens when high blood pressure is not adequately addressed.

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

flying and of flow and this dance that happens with the water and how the ocean is your dance partner and you have to

How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED · TED

on Hamlet's contemplation of unaliving himself, or a classroom discussion on the unaliving that happens in "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde." And these aren't hypothetical situations.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

and then more people interact with it, which makes the word trendier. And this happens because social-media algorithms want to make you identify with hypercompartmentalized labels,

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

personal is something that involves Only You Collective happens to the whole Community until War a natural disaster

Lifequakes

because actors play it out on stage without a plan, improvising what happens next. But this is limited to one narrative per group of actors

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

concrete to hold on to when that happens people turn out to have a remarkable ability to generate

Mark

things like arched eyebrows, or higher cheekbones or plump lips. What then happens is we see the gap between the way we look in the mirror and the way we look in these filters,

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

can feel like a slog somewhere along the way the unexpected happens the process starts to get inventive

Create

but one tool has no time element it floats it reoccurs it happens all the time and sometimes only once

Share

to ensure our kids went to school safely, because violence often happens before and after school. We launched the city's first trauma recovery center

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

that we would get 4.4 trillion dollars in savings, which happens to be just about the exact amount we need to finance the transition to renewable energy.

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

one day it just happens a tinge of normalcy appears a glimmer of light

Launch

about the huge climate problem caused by methane, which also happens to be the main component of natural gas. In the short term,

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

that will help us thrive in the future only when that happens will we know our transition is complete

Tell

transition is complete and how will you know when that happens it's a fairly simple feeling

Tell

and it can be transported like, long distance. This happens mainly in the tropics and is the biggest anthropogenic source of mercury on the planet.

The Hidden Cost of Buying Gold | Claudia Vega | TED · TED

biology, math, so forth and so on, what typically happens is a truly brilliant human being looks at one area and says,

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

some of it is proprietary, perfectly legitimate. What happens when there's an open-source model that is really dangerous,

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

where the exponential is moving like this. As this stuff happens quicker, you will forget what was true two years ago or three years ago.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

phone is rampant these days it happens in counseling sessions in playgrounds in bedrooms and on dates

Connect

because as Fisher points out a lot of listening and learning happens between the sheets

Romance

which may not be aligned with ours. What happens to us then? Poof!

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

and I remember he told me "Everything happens only once and this will never happen again."

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

happiness spontaneously rises in my heart. That's how gratefulness happens. Now the key to all this

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

and they added their own messages. This picture happens to be Toronto, but this project actually happened in dozens of cities across the country

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

"What about when she needs to use the bathroom?" "What happens when she has her period?" Chloe was learning to sew at the time,

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

If you're passing somebody on the street or in the hallway here, smile. See what happens. Another is triangulation.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

they would strongly recommend Our Turn as a place to work. I believe that happens when you have a work environment where people feel seen. Where they’re in true community with one another.

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

kind of like yesterday or this morning, that the upload happens bit by bit. It’s not you know, that you plug your brain in one day.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

don't release certain capabilities. So I think this happens. And again, this is where I think the track record does matter.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

And then here they come. And then it happens all at once. That's how that works, I think.

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

is that you let the viewer decide for themselves what happens with this couple. BR: You want to play in it? You want to be the therapist?

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

their own and maybe we should listen to them and see what happens. So, but I

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

You want to get married when you're older anyway. And when it happens, enjoy the hell out of it while it lasts.

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

whatever and we'll just see what happens. We'll just play.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

But you put on your party clothes and you show up to the party, and what happens? You have a good time at the party.

How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski

who were at the party. And this happens all the time: nice people who love each other come to dread sex.

How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski

the distance between them is crowded with these sleepy hedgehogs. And it happens in any relationship that lasts long enough. You, too, are fostering a prickle of sleepy hedgehogs

How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski

And so the question is no longer, will we fall in love with AI. It's what happens now that we already have. So you see, when intimacy is engineered,

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

she's going to call me "Point B," because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me.

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

is "10 Things I Know to be True." And here's what happens, you would discover it too if we all started sharing our lists out loud.

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

but they're completely respected by me. What happens when thousands or millions of these robots are shipped all over the world to different people,

My Year Living with a Robot | Emily Kate Genatowski | TED · TED

And then we said, well, this is just inevitable. This is just what happens when you connect people on the internet. But we had a chance to make a different choice

Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED · TED

You're busy solving the wrong problem. This happens all the time. We get seduced into thinking

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

Not to provide the fast, wrong answer, which is what happens right now." The second question that I wish I'd asked Shannon is,

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

and that competence and that confidence that we were talking about before. And when that happens, your advice monster really has not much chance.

How to Tame Your Advice Monster | Michael Bungay Stanier | TED · TED

Questions like "what is cremation?" And "what happens to us if you die?" And so it is that I stood witness to the unphotographable,

To Love Is to Be Brave | Kelly Corrigan | TED · TED

more likely to have a failing memory, poor health and even to die earlier. Now, I talked about what happens later, but some of these differences emerge at a really shockingly early age.

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

the answers aren't quite as simple as that. For one thing, this study looks at what happens to thousands and thousands of children on average,

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

to your daily routine can dramatically improve your health. So, what exactly happens to your body when you increase your daily step count? A single afternoon stroll can improve your mood

Do you really need to take 10,000 steps a day? - Shannon Odell

and for that, I needed a lot of them. And it so happens that cute little Tetrahymena has a lot of short linear chromosomes,

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

And she had a life-and-death question for me. "What happens to telomeres in people who are chronically stressed?" she asked me.

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

I mean, the possibility for unintended consequences seems pretty immense. And isn't it true that if a problem happens, it could happen in an hour?

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

And this is complex because it happens across thousands of computational units. In liquid networks,

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

but each one does more complex math. Here's what happens inside our liquid neuron. We use differential equations to model the neural computation

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

like the one here -- "bridge" happens to be grammatically feminine in German, grammatically masculine in Spanish --

How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED · TED