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I snagged this one from http://www.daddysreviews.com/news: <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3wHjJUdN16k?feature=player_embedded"frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> But there's lots more. The idea is to have ordinary people, real people tell stories from their lives in their own voice and overlay that with animations illustrating the story. My PBS station plays these from time to time, mostly on Sunday night. ---- Sorry but you have to click through on the embedded code to see the video. I'm doing something wrong but just what that is escapes me at the moment.

How gruesome it must be to see these "coffins" on the beach in Copacabana - "nearly 4,000 violent deaths which occurred in the state of Rio de Janeiro in the first ten months of the year" - Will the make shift "coffins" displayed at the beach stop the violent killings? http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/rio-protests-high-number-of-violent-deaths-this-year/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRioTimes+%28The+Rio+Times%29 -

Neat article on Margaret Hamilton, one of the lead programmers of the Apollo flight computers. Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself http://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/

How much does 10 weeks of rehab take off?

"Hamilton remembers. Once the code was solid, it would be shipped off to a nearby Raytheon facility where a group of women, expert seamstresses known to the Apollo program as the “Little Old Ladies,” threaded copper wires through magnetic rings (a wire going through a core was a 1; a wire going around the core was a 0). Forget about RAM or disk drives; on Apollo, memory was literally hardwired and very nearly indestructible." and programing at MIT at 24 years old. Impressive.

Thanks Firecat69 for such an informative and instructive post.