How native speakers pronounce “higher”

And in pretty much every system, too, there's a hierarchy within the arts. Art and music are normally given a higher status in schools than drama and dance.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

particularly in the parts of the brain that are responsible for those higher order thinking processes, including reasoning, problem solving, and good judgment.

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

Studies have shown that college students who keep regular sleep hours have, on average, a higher GPA than students who don't. So the next time you’re thinking of pulling an all-nighter,

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

where the number of Jews after World War II was higher after the war than before the war, because we protected them with our lives.

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

Saudi Arabia's Prince Al Waleed created an entire public company, basically to get higher on the Forbes list. Every year before the Forbes issue came out,

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

The “get married” advocates like to point to data that show that married people report higher life satisfaction than single people.

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

we are less likely than men are to be successful and we're at a higher risk of backlash. This causes us to miss out on opportunities,

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

the more they fidgeted, the more they avoided eye contact, even the higher their cortisol reactivity, indicating some real deep, kind of, under-the-skin stress response,

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

we have good friends in childhood, we have higher self-esteem in adulthood, we're more empathic in adulthood, right?

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

And I was curious about whether having higher-quality connections throughout the day led to higher levels of engagement

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

about whether having higher-quality connections throughout the day led to higher levels of engagement at the end of the day.

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

And what I found was fascinating. Yes, it did lead to higher levels of engagement, but it didn't matter how many interactions you had

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

Starting to leverage clear communication as a resource and a tool will contribute to a higher-performing and more sustainable version of you.

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

the exact amount that's right for you personally might be higher or lower. But if you are thinking that one hour a day sounds like way too much

Why Social Health Is Key to Happiness and Longevity | Kasley Killam | TED · TED

In my work examining physical activity behaviors among Black women, for whom the prevalence of obesity is disproportionately higher than white women in the United States,

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life | TED · TED

that internal motivation for internally set goals leads to greater persistence, higher learning, better employee engagement,

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

and women in college correlates with better GPAs and higher graduation rates. I lived that statistic.

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

The data backs it up. Students who experience engaging, high-quality learning have higher grades, stronger attendance, fewer behavior issues.

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

the impact of this inequality is killing Black women at higher and faster rates than any other group in the country. But that is about to change.

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

Whether you've had a cardiac event and you're in rehab and exercising, getting higher now. Whether you've had a flu vaccine.

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

But for fully, on-the-fly generated dynamic experiences, the cost per viewer is much higher than for content 1.0 and 2.0. So even the economics of making hits might look quite different

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

They come with a suite of characteristics teaching us how to look, 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

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

drunkenness and lust and devote himself to a higher purpose from that moment Augustine would become

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to fund the continuing operation of its coal plants. Which means that those remaining customers have higher prices and even more reason to go solar.

Solar Energy Is Even Cheaper Than You Think | Jenny Chase | TED · TED

now, those, you know, when AI makes a mistake, it's much higher stakes. It is the gate on --

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

it was before um companies are trading at a much higher multiple um you've got higher inflation you've got higher debt

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

at a much higher multiple um you've got higher inflation you've got higher debt levels it's much more challenging for

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

Another War um that could lead oil prices to get higher impact the global Marketplace I suspect he's going to hit

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

(Laughter) So you see, the partner with the higher language proficiency does have the upper hand here.

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

The arranged marriages are the ones on your left. Yes, the ones that are higher on each of those four parameters. Two points of note.

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

By ten years, the levels in the arranged marriages are significantly higher. What's going on?

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

like the lost prevent the found from escaping the mire, and the degraded stop the enlightened from taking us higher. But no matter what you hear from the mouths of these liars,

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

She found that bright girls were quick to give up. The higher the IQ, the more likely they were to give up. Bright boys, on the other hand,

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

I woke to 40,000 new followers. My first viral video had nothing to do with my eight years of higher education. It was about me, a human being,

The Thrill of Not Knowing All the Answers | Harini Bhat | TED · TED

Or, take these X-rays. If you can get these electrons up to a higher energy, so about 1,000 times higher than this tube,

The case for curiosity-driven research | Suzie Sheehy

If you can get these electrons up to a higher energy, so about 1,000 times higher than this tube, the X-rays that those produce

The case for curiosity-driven research | Suzie Sheehy

The first ones we developed let us split the atom. And then we got to higher and higher energies; we created circular accelerators that let us delve into the nucleus

The case for curiosity-driven research | Suzie Sheehy

at the highest energy that humans have ever used in a collider experiment. Now, higher energy is important because for particles, there is an equivalence

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

we need to reach these bigger numbers. And to do that, we have to build a bigger, higher energy collider, and the biggest, highest energy collider in the world

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

(Laughter) We search at higher energies. Planning is already underway for a 100-kilometer tunnel

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

And staring at that wall of fire higher and more ferocious than any I'd seen before, I felt helpless,

Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED · TED

But here's what crushes my soul about Monet. Because that number should be way higher. You see, Monet was such a perfectionist

Is Perfectionism Just Procrastination in Disguise? | Jon Youshaei | TED · TED

depending on what goes into the model and how it's trained. Like we know that ChatGPT says “delve” at way higher rates than usual, possibly because OpenAI outsourced its training process to workers in Nigeria

Why Are People Starting to Sound Like ChatGPT? | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

and tracked weight against inactivity, and found a much higher, stronger correlation between the latter two.

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

Is being more sustainble what gives you a higher quality of life? I would argue the same thing

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

that makes you more sustainble is what gives you a higher quality of life, and that's living in a walkable neighborhood.

Jeff Speck: The walkable city