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COVER STORY: Capturing the melting of glaciers, with data and artFor more than 40 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has been measuring the shrinking glaciers in the rugged North Cascade Mountains of Washington State. He's been joined by his daughter, artist-scientist Jill Pelto, whose watercolors provide another view of the drastically-changing landscape, as the effects of human-caused climate change on glaciers becomes even more starkly apparent. Correspondent Ben Tracy reports. [Produced in partnership with Climate Central.]
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ALMANAC: August 17"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.
ARTS: Rashid Johnson on art as a source of potential joyArtist Rashid Johnson has used multiple media and materials to create works that examine race, masculinity, identity, aesthetics, and (he says) his own anxiety. Now, Johnson's career is the focus of an exhibition at the Guggenheim New York, "A Poem for Deep Thinkers." Correspondent Alina Cho reports.
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TV: Becoming a TV commercial iconYou know them as Flo, the Progressive Insurance saleswoman; Mayhem, the human embodiment of disasters covered by Allstate; and the unstoppable dancer from the Jardiance diabetes drug ads. Correspondent David Pogue talks with actors Stephanie Courtney, Dean Winters and Deanna Colon about how becoming nationally famous via TV commercials has (or hasn't) changed their lives. (Original air date: Feb. 9, 2025.)
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MUSIC: Laufey on creating her own soundWhimsical and romantic, the music of Icelandic singer and cellist Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir, or Laufey, blends pop, jazz, classical and bossa nova – a "mishmash," she calls it, which has led to sold-out shows, bestselling albums, and a Grammy Award. With her third album, "A Matter of Time," being released this week, she sits down with correspondent Tracy Smith to discuss her musical tastes; her reaction to the response of young fans; and the thrill of singing a duet with Barbra Streisand of a song she composed, "Letter To My 13-Year-Old Self."
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PASSAGE: In memoriam"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week.
NATIONAL: A desk with the greatest viewIn the late 1970s, a group of university students in west Texas, wanting a place to study with a view, hauled a desk to the top of Hancock Hill (elevation: 4,900 feet), in the town of Alpine. Today, the desk is a pilgrimage for hikers seeking a meditative place, who leave behind messages in the desk's notebook. Correspondent Janet Shamlian reports on what has become a unique travel destination
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THESE UNITED STATES: America's first cash cropTobacco had been cultivated and smoked by Native Americans for centuries before Christopher Columbus introduced it to Europe. Jane Pauley reports on how growing tobacco became America's first cash crop – and ingrained in the nation's culture for generations.
TV: "Severance" star Adam ScottActor Adam Scott (who previously starred in the sitcom "Parks and Recreation") is the Emmy-nominated lead in the critically-acclaimed Apple TV+ series "Severance," about workers at a mysterious corporation whose brains are altered to create distinctly separate personalities in and out of the office. He talks with correspondent Conor Knighton about his 30-year path to this head trip of a series, and what it took for him to pull it off. Knighton also talks with director Ben Stiller about how the surreal show came together.
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WORLD: The summitCBS News chief political analyst John Dickerson offers perspective on Friday's high-stakes summit between President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
TECH: A robotics activist's remarkable crusadeTwenty-two years ago, Silicon Valley executive Henry Evans had a massive stroke that left him mute and paralyzed from the neck down. But that didn't prevent him from becoming a leading advocate of adaptive robotic tech to help disabled people – or from writing country songs, one letter at a time. Correspondent John Blackstone talks with Evans about his upbeat attitude and unlikely pursuits.
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NATURE: Providence Canyon in Georgia
GALLERY: LOLLAPALOOZA 2025Scroll through our gallery of some of 2025's leading live acts, including from Chicago's Lollapalooza festival, featuring images by CBS News photojournalist Jake Barlow and photographers Ed Spinelli and Kirstine Walton.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Robots open up the world of art (Video)The De Young, one of San Francisco's fine art museums, now has two robots that open the museum up to those who cannot attend, including the physically handicapped. John Blackstone reports on the state-of-the-art in museum tour guides, and interviews robotics activist Henry Evans, a former Silicon Valley executive who is now almost completely paralyzed, and who worked with the museum to make touring by robot a reality. (Air date: March 1, 2025.)
MARATHON: An ode to coffee lovers (YouTube Video)"CBS Sunday Morning" serves up a rich pot of stories about the varieties of coffee brewed across countries and cultures.
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