How native speakers pronounce “hours”

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And we have those 36 cameras that are live-streaming them 24 hours a day. But the beautiful thing about these live cameras

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

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And we have those 36 cameras that are live-streaming them 24 hours a day. But the beautiful thing about these live cameras

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

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. (Laughter)

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

forest may not be an option for you two hours in your favorite coffee shop or even in a chair in a Cozy Corner of

Slow Thinking

So, I didn't know that my flight was 2 hours delayed until I reached the gate. The Hare Krishna laid my burdens down

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

and said he'd wait with me. Would I have chosen to spend 2 hours in O'Hare with a Hare Krishna? No.

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

In fact, I told it for years. Two hours in an airport

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

So it doesn't all require upskilling. SK: Well, we could talk for hours about this, but thank you so much. TM: Thank you.

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

I also know that by waking him up hours before his natural biological clock tells him he’s ready, I’m literally robbing him of the type of sleep

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

Sleep deprivation among American teenagers is an epidemic. Only about 1 in 10 gets the 8 to 10 hours of sleep per night recommended by sleep scientists and pediatricians.

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

Teenagers’ bodies wait to start releasing melatonin until around 11 p.m., which is two hours later than what we see in adults or younger children. This means that waking a teenager up at 6 a.m.

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

Then there’s the risk of putting a sleep-deprived teen behind the wheel. Studies have shown that getting five hours or less of sleep per night is the equivalent of driving with a blood alcohol content above the legal limit.

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

That’s the hormone that helps prepare your body for sleep, and levels start to rise about two hours before your normal bedtime. At the same time, neurons in the hypothalamus and brain stem

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

But at this point your motor skills have also taken a hit. Studies have found that people who have been awake for 19 hours have similar coordination and reaction times as those who have been drinking.

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

or constantly changing your bedtime, can take its toll. Regularly getting less than seven hours of sleep each night is linked to all sorts of health issues,

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

Your sleep schedule can even affect your grades. Studies have shown that college students who keep regular sleep hours have, on average, a higher GPA than students who don't.

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

and visualize them every day before our pretend court. About 18 hours before the argument, Ben calls and says, “How are you feeling?”

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

is that we're not getting enough and that anything less than seven hours a night means that we’re doomed to bad health,

Do You Really Need 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED · TED

The first flaw is that it's not completely accurate. Seven to eight hours of sleep, while recommended for adults, is just an average.

Do You Really Need 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED · TED

diabetes and depression. But fixating solely on seven to eight hours ignores the fact that there's a range of sleep that people need.

Do You Really Need 8 Hours of Sleep Every Night? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter | TED · TED

Our brain’s primary source of energy is cerebral glucose, and in healthy sleep, our metabolism slows to conserve this glucose for waking hours. But PET studies show the adrenaline that prevents sleep for insomniacs

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

called delayed sleep phase disorder, or DSPD. People with DSPD have a circadian rhythm significantly longer than 24 hours, putting their sleeping habits out of sync with traditional sleeping hours.

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

People with DSPD have a circadian rhythm significantly longer than 24 hours, putting their sleeping habits out of sync with traditional sleeping hours. So while they have difficulty falling asleep at a typical bedtime,

What causes insomnia? - Dan Kwartler

betting for the attack on Iran. Some of those wallets were funded hours before. Finally, predictions create and then cover up injustice.

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

It's 4 a.m., and the big test is in eight hours, followed by a piano recital.

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

Well, you can drink another cup of coffee and spend the next few hours cramming and practicing, but believe it or not,

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

So based on the studies, going to sleep three hours after memorizing your formulas and one hour after practicing your scales would be the most ideal.

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

I was recently having dinner with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours sleep the night before. And I felt like saying to him -- but I didn't say --

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

I didn't build voice in there. I added support for images, yeah, but even that took hours. So I was looking at the typing indicator,

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

but in order to do that, I need to work the hours when I'm most productive, which is typically earlier in the day.

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

might be the single most overlooked skill we fail to teach. Kids spend hours each day engaging with ideas and each other through screens, but rarely do they have an opportunity

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

and I was laid off from that full time job 48 hours later. (Laughter)

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

which means that it's sexuality transformed by the human imagination. We are the only ones who can make love for hours, have a blissful time, multiple orgasms,

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

I worked around the clock. I spent hours finessing my Power Points, took meticulous meeting notes

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

It might be surprising, but I'm actually also an introvert. However, keep in mind that just like getting eight hours of sleep at night, the exact amount that's right for you personally

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

I challenge you. Adults in the US spend an average of 4.5 hours each day on their smartphones.

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

is this, your tush. Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day, which is more than we're sleeping, at 7.7 hours.

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day, which is more than we're sleeping, at 7.7 hours. Sitting is so incredibly prevalent,

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk | Nilofer Merchant | TED · TED

it's to redesign them for a new purpose. A purpose worthy of the 15,000 hours every young person spends in K-12 schooling.

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

or when I'm struggling to find the words to write a eulogy hours after losing one of my closest friends. Of course, stressing over spilled milk

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

We work more than we do just about anything else, and how we spend those hours matters. And yet, our current relationship to work isn't quite working.

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

when I was sure that my mother was well looked after, I got into my carm and I drove for four hours along narrow, winding roads up the Californian coastline.

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

the wind whistling through the pampas grass. Finally, after two hours, completely washed clean by this kind of living silence,

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

or even in the wake of my father's death, two hours, in a Catholic retreat house.

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

So take a deep breath and step for a moment, or two hours, into a place where no words are required.

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

including sleeping, we're now up to 11 hours a day, one hour more than last year, by the way,

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

The doctor's office is only a place that you go when you don't feel well. And when you do go, you might wait for hours only to get the run-around

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

people used to gather for these moonlight dances of sacred dance and music that would go on for hours and hours, until dawn. They were always magnificent, because the dancers were professionals

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

It only took 20,000 tries and 5 hours of effort. Look, I I guess I'll probably

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

careers changed religions got sober got out of bad marriages in total 1500 hours of interviews ten thousand pages of

Linear

One of her users, let me call him George, has been relying on her daily for many hours. So one day he wrote to Maite's product team.

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

20 years ago, a full year. Now it’s down to 15 hours, and it’s on the way down still. So here's what I believe that the so-called climate realists

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

that tried to guide us into taking donated food, into using volunteer hours and trading board seats for money. And because of us rebuffing a lot of those things,

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

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

Timekeeping

by the late 1600s we could accurately measure hours minutes and seconds and then came the Industrial Revolution

Timekeeping

course no matter how much we do or how quickly we do it the number of hours in each day Remains the Same

Timekeeping

I want you to imagine something. In the early hours of a massive surprise invasion of Taiwan, China unleashes its full arsenal.

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

researcher Jeffrey Hall says it takes around 200 hours for a best friendship to develop

Connect

phones to chat with their friends for a couple of hours then we all can with phones set aside We Lay the ground

Connect

the covid-19 pandemic forced many families into hours of unscheduled togetherness shedding a light on both

Family

in the 21st century humans will only need to work two hours a day most of our time will be devoted to

Work

he predicted that his 21st century grandchildren would work just 15 hours a week that's three hours a day Monday to Friday

Work

grandchildren would work just 15 hours a week that's three hours a day Monday to Friday just think about that for a second

Work

just think about that for a second working two or three hours a day and then spending the rest of your time on

Work

on one side of the equation hundreds of millions toil long hours just to make ends meet

Work

in many firms the only way to rise up the corporate ladder is to work long hours on Wall Street Junior Bankers routinely

Work

stay logged in an extra two and a half hours per day which is a problem

Work

the World Health Organization estimates that working more than 55 hours a week kills 745

Work

longer have to answer work calls or messages outside office hours in other countries like New Zealand

Work

Yet today, some of them are already spending hours every day talking to AI characters.

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

definition and without any voiceover they can last from several hours to several days

Leisure

By the end of the project, I was just in a thanking frenzy. So I was -- I would get up and spend a couple hours, I'd write emails, send notes,

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

And that millions of people around the world don't have this luxury and have to walk hours to get safe water. It inspired me to see what I could do to help people get more access,

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

so she'll text me at work for logistics. And this one time she did this for 12.5 hours straight. And I saw the text,

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

It's so abstract. Before, if any of us had been asked to donate 15 hours a month to help out with the refugee crisis,

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

The other day, I figured out that if you spend three hours a day on your phone from the age of, I think it was 15,

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

No sleeping, just 10 years straight on your phone. And three hours a day is, I'm going to say, a fair amount of us are using those numbers.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

We see each other almost every day for those four years. And some days, we're working together 10 to 12 hours a day. So it's a very intense experience.

How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED · TED

It took 100 days. Now it takes about 17 hours to compute the same 75 million scores. The scores are really accurate,

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

>> This my favorite topic and we don't have 24 hours, we just have one. Um, I would

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

keep people glued to the screen for all those hours, you have to find very compelling and I would say very

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

but I felt like I was speaking to my long lost grandfather. And then, after two and a half hours of having amazing conversation with Mr. Shatner,

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

Today, after 45 years of community advocacy, after 500 hours of community engagement and 80 hours of community design,

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

after 500 hours of community engagement and 80 hours of community design, we are so excited that in 2018,

"Chasms" | Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes

It's like way out in the outskirts of the city, and they film in the wee hours of the morning. So something to keep in mind about Tova.

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

but I still consider it lynching when they murder Black boys and leave their bodies for four hours in the sun. As a historical reminder

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

So suppose I left five clothes to dry out in the sun, and it took them five hours to dry completely. How long would it take to dry 30 clothes?

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

How long would it take to dry 30 clothes? GPT-4, the newest, greatest AI system says 30 hours. Not good.

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

I'm not making this up. I've kept it. "Business hours are over at five o'clock." She gave this to me to put on my desk for personal health,

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

They take this sanctuary in time very serious. For 24 hours every week, no matter how busy they are, how stressed out they are at work,

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

and teaches intro to Java tells me about his office hours with computer science students. When the guys are struggling with an assignment,

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

it had a light, there was a radio beacon, and it had suction cups designed to stick to the whale for a few hours and then pop off and float to the surface.

A Whale’s-Eye-View of the Ocean | Eric Stackpole | TED · TED

and then slowly, incrementally improving. Well, not very slowly, actually, within the course of 24 hours, going from random to better than world-champion level.