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Rives: The 4 a.m. mystery

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Uploaded on Jul 19, 2007

http://www.ted.com Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the morning.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
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  • Natalia G

    george watsky sent me :)

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  • caitlyngnomes

    It's almost 4am monday in my room again.

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  • SweetSinFZ

    Most suicides are commited around that time aswell

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  • Jacob Dickens

    I'm not saying it was aliens...but it was aliens

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  • jazbone

    Listening to a song right now called 4 a.m. by Poison Idea and it reminded me of this great speech!

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  • Gary Smith

    It's simple. Four rhymes with the first syllable of morning. If any other number fit better, that'd be the topic of discussion

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  • bluewhale18

    I think onion news based their spoof on this

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  • mrmelanson34

    what did i just watch?

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  • TheDiscoMole

    The reason 4 am is such a controversial time is cause on an emotional level adults doing work and procrastinating recreationally find the hour from 4 to 5 to be the turning point where one day changes into the next. Even though we can rationally tell that midnight is the time shift to the next day, on an emotional level we feel that the new day has approached as we start approaching the morning light at around 5 to 6 which infers that 4 am tends to be the real end of a day to us.

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  • Evan Newman

    And yet another piece of the puzzle: Stu makes chocolate pudding at 4 in the morning...

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