How native speakers pronounce “hour”

Apparently that was pretty motivating, though, because over the course of a 21-hour-long live stream, we fundraised $573,000.

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

so I got stuck in the back of the plane, next to the bathrooms, in a seat that wouldn't recline, on an eight-hour flight. Well, I had a lot of time to think during those eight hours and no sleep.

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

Now this is very difficult to access. On the ground, this is probably an hour search, but the drone got there in seconds.

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

Well one day, Emma comes in and she hangs her head in her lap, and she sobbed for most of the hour. She'd just bought a new address book,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

(Laughter) And then half an hour later, there was this flower in Connie's backyard.

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

(Laughter) So for the next hour I was the Starbucks greeter. I said "hi" to every customer that walked in,

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

Or even a soccer goalie moves back and forth at 40 miles an hour, and then we track your shot so effectively,

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

it just immediately came to a stop, and it hit him at like, four miles an hour or something. Like he literally just fell on his knees,

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

And so I think, you know, in the case of the child in Santa Monica ... our car was traveling 17 miles per hour. And we were able to get to six miles per hour

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

our car was traveling 17 miles per hour. And we were able to get to six miles per hour before making contact.

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

In another study with over 30,000 high school students, they found that for each hour of lost sleep, there was a 38% increase in feeling sad or hopeless,

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

These are the cyclical changes that virtually all living things experience over the course of a 24-hour period— such as sleeping and waking— and they’re heavily influenced by light.

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

When we got home, I still had work to do, but I had one hour free. So I laid down, closed my eyes,

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

So I laid down, closed my eyes, and before I knew it, the hour was gone. I hadn't slept one bit.

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

but there was certainly a Boston Tea Party. Justice Sotomayor, I wish I had an hour to talk about this with you, because this argument by the government is wrong every which way.

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

going to sleep three hours after memorizing your formulas and one hour after practicing your scales would be the most ideal. So hopefully you can see now that skimping on sleep

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

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 than we said he was.

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

because she would have woken up from a seven-and-a-half- or eight-hour sleep, and have been able to see the big picture.

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

Because when you can prompt a prototype into existence in one hour, anything is possible.

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

Which included my wife, my brother and two of my meditation teachers. In all, 16 people gave hour-long confidential interviews, and I was then handed a 39-page report brimming with blind quotes.

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

to strengthen at least three close relationships overall, and to spend one hour a day connecting. Let's dig into these.

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

But there are absolutely still benefits to staying connected virtually. And last, spend one hour a day on meaningful connection. OK, if you're an introvert, right now you're probably thinking

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

OK, if you're an introvert, right now you're probably thinking one hour sounds like a lot. I get it.

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

might be higher or lower. But if you are thinking that one hour a day sounds like way too much because you're just way too busy,

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

Slow down. Take a step back. Observe. And proceed mindfully. We can create so much damage if we're going 100 miles an hour, but so much less if we're going five miles an hour.

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

We can create so much damage if we're going 100 miles an hour, but so much less if we're going five miles an hour. When our emotional mind is on fire, it's so hard to think clearly.

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

And again, I know this isn't 100 percent guaranteed. Sometimes when I make that four-hour drive up to the retreat house,

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

we're now up to 11 hours a day, one hour more than last year, by the way, does it make a difference?

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

If we could set up an HD camera back in time, recording three gigabytes an hour, a typical HD video stream,

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

but had to cash in her retirement fund just to keep her doors open. And despite being the city's only 24-hour assistance for victims, it took the city five years before they granted her money.

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

Is it realistic to ignore the fact that right now, Greenland is losing 30 million tons of ice every single hour? In Antarctica, decade by decade, the ice melting has accelerated.

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

our ancestors split their days into 24 hours but the length of each hour varied with the seasons

Timekeeping

with the seasons in the early 1300s one hour in London could be 38 minutes

Timekeeping

for Laborers it also limited their lunch break to one hour and no longer in 1391 the city started imposing curfews

Timekeeping

on Wall Street Junior Bankers routinely put in 70 or 80 hour weeks at the same time working hard now has

Work

not those who stay chained to their desks hour after hour after hour the most productive staffers took

Slow Work

and I'm not talking about wine followed by a two-hour snooze that may be a thing of beauty but it's probably best kept

Slow Work

calming measures such as cutting speed limits to 30 kilometers an hour physical activity and social

Slow Spaces

This was the longest, most humiliating hour of the week. My PE teacher, Mr. Jensen, was a former drill sergeant,

The Profound Power of Gratitude and "Living Eulogies" | Andrea Driessen | TED · TED

CA: That was impressive. SA: You've been asking me versions of this for the last half hour. What do you think?

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

marginal poverty line, making $9, $10 an hour at the airport. And so many of them

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cable television in the 80s, which meant that we suddenly had a 24-hour news cycle, which had never been the case

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

like marigolds, your hour bright, your wants bursting,

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

And this is the last one. "This Dark Hour" Late summer, 4 A.M.

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

breathing in the wet green August air. This is the small, still hour before the newspaper lands in the vestibule like a grenade,

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

the phone shrills, the computer screen blinks and glares awake. There is this hour: poem in my head, soil in my hand:

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

unnamable fullness. This hour, when blood of my blood bone of bone, child grown to manhood now --

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

Whatever comes, there was this hour when nothing mattered, all was unbearably dear.

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

should those who loved me grieve too long a while, let them remember that I had this hour -- this dark, perfect hour --

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

let them remember that I had this hour -- this dark, perfect hour -- and smile.

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

because at the time, I was working on my first real business. I had no idea what I was doing. I was working 14-plus hour days, seven days a week.

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss | TED · TED

to remind them to stop eating when their stomach is percent full. It takes about a half hour for that full feeling to travel from your belly to your brain.

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

from sunset on Friday till sunset on Saturday. A "24-hour sanctuary in time," they call it. And they follow five little habits

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

And isn't it true that if a problem happens, it could happen in an hour? MS: No.

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

But the problem is that it's very, very slow. So this was about three to six folds per hour. (Laughter)

Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet? | Ken Goldberg | TED · TED

which is more than the physical one retails for, just an hour after it went for sale on Roblox. This is interesting

What’s the Point of Digital Fashion? | Karinna Grant | TED · TED

What makes you feel vulnerable?" And within an hour and a half, I had 150 responses. Because I wanted to know what's out there.

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

and had to paint that picture over and over again. This is also when I learned the value of a well-placed happy hour or coffee break.

Ask Dumb Questions, Embrace Mistakes — and Other Lessons on Innovation | Dave Raggio | TED · TED

and found that once you deduct Uber's cut and the cost of business expenses, drivers’ average earnings dropped from about $22 an hour to about $12 an hour. And buying benefits would reduce that number even more.

What is a gig economy?

This is really a two-hour presentation I give to high school students, cut down to three minutes.

Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes | Richard St. John