Sunday, April 26, 2026

The 4 a.m. mystery

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.

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... 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 ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-26 04:01 AM

... and, fwiw, my view of the TED Talks is that back a couple decades ago they were great. I used to watch each and every podcast of theirs.

But of late, not so much. Commercialism seems to have noticed the viewership and has taken them over.

So, enjoy this blast from the great past of the TED Talks.

imo, of course.

YMMV and all that ...




#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-26 04:08 AM

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