How native speakers pronounce “spot”

So this is why we lose car keys and reading glasses and passports. So in the home, designate a spot for your keys -- a hook by the door, maybe a decorative bowl.

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

For your reading glasses, a particular table. If you designate a spot and you're scrupulous about it, your things will always be there when you look for them.

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

So think about how you're going to work through this ahead of time, so you don't have to manufacture the chain of reasoning on the spot. 300 people take the drug, right? One person's helped,

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

that will push the conversation forward. You don't want to have to manufacture all of this on the spot. And you also want to think about things like quality of life.

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

Dock opens up. It uses vision and AI to detect its landing spot, and it will come in and do an automated landing.

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

but that didn't make Alex's 20s a developmental downtime. That made Alex's 20s a developmental sweet spot, and we were sitting there, blowing it.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

to change this trajectory of decline. On the spot, the commitment was made to protect the high seas

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

starting in the Sargasso Sea. Sargasso Sea Hope Spot: the open ocean home for turtles and whales and sharks

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

But there is reason for hope. In the Nusa Penida Hope Spot you can actually see the progression from a damaged reef

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

In the shadow of New York City, the Shinnecock Bay Hope Spot is a place where people and nature

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

on the promise of hope. In French Polynesia, at the Tetiaroa Hope Spot, Richard and Mary Bailey are pioneering science-based tourism

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

It's two sides of a spectrum. But what if the sweet spot is actually in the middle? This means we hustle when we need to,

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

is nowhere to be seen. They finally spot her. She's in the water. She's swimming away from them

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

making everything from national security to social media a little bit safer. And imagine having this AI system that could actually spot fake opinions. From tomorrow, we could say

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

Well, with these systems, we could actually spot malicious intentions before they even happen.

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

And actually, if you go on Google Earth and just look at a random spot somewhere in Pakistan, in these cities, you can see that loads of the roofs have solar panels on them.

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

think of nature maybe your spot is the top of a mountain or a wooded Valley

Slow Spaces

geopolitics the technology is a bright spot um the technology for AI the technology uh for sustainable energy uh

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

It means that our CRISPRs cut a single strand of DNA into two, in the exact right spot, just like natural CRISPRs in the lab. And so that's when we knew ...

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

Nothing is automatic. You can spot it in the provocation of a button, an arm poking at a sleeve,

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

I've got one final question for you. I'm going to step to the edge of the red spot here just to make it really dramatic.

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

As a 21-year-old, I was drawn to the word brave. I had a soft spot for ripping yarns and the people who could tell them. So, Odyssey on the brain,

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

where we can design chemical compounds that will bind exactly to the right spot on the protein and also, importantly, to nothing else in the body.

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

So it's not surprising that robots are still very clumsy. Now there's one sweet spot for robots, and that has to do with e-commerce. And this has been growing, it's a huge trend.

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

So, "I talk to you from the East, but you reply from the West" has hit the spot. Something very easy, yet creative and persuasive.

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

We took a first look at the LHC for any new, big, obvious-to-spot particles, and we can report that there are none.

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

New particles can either show up immediately as big, obvious-to-spot bumps, or they can only reveal themselves after years of data taking.

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

That's maybe what we want to do as adults, but what kids want to do is hunker down in one spot and just tinker with it, just work with it,

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

Picture one of your favorite spots in nature, a place you love. Maybe you're heading for this spot after a stressful day at work, maybe you're worrying about your economy,

Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action | Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug

When nature is being destroyed -- the steady mountain, your favorite swimming spot, the forest and all its inhabitants --

Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action | Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug

(Laughter) You might think it's easy to spot an obviously AI-generated image, and you're probably aware that algorithms are biased in some way.

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

The Dunning-Kruger effect isn't a question of ego blinding us to our weaknesses. People usually do admit their deficits once they can spot them. In one study, students who had initially done badly on a logic quiz

Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning

They're how we drive our car to work, and how we look over in the next lane and spot a dangerous driver from a tiny observation.

How to Make Big Decisions in Challenging Circumstances | Jonathan Reimer | TED · TED