This week on “Sunday Morning” (August 17)

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COVER STORY: Capturing the melting of glaciers, with information and artwork | Watch Video
For greater than 40 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has been measuring the shrinking glaciers within the rugged North Cascade Mountains of Washington State. He is been joined by his daughter, artist-scientist Jill Pelto, whose watercolors present one other view of the drastically-changing panorama, as the results of human-caused local weather change on glaciers turns into much more starkly obvious. [This story was provided by Climate Central.]

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ALMANAC: August 17 (Video)
“Sunday Morning” seems to be again at historic occasions on this date.

TELEVISION: Changing into a TV business icon (Video)
them as Flo, the Progressive Insurance coverage saleswoman; Mayhem, the human embodiment of disasters coated by Allstate; and the unstoppable dancer from the Jardiance diabetes drug adverts. Correspondent David Pogue talks with actors Stephanie Courtney, Dean Winters and Deanna Colon about how turning into nationally well-known through TV commercials has (or hasn’t) modified their lives. (Authentic air date: Feb. 9, 2025.)

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ARTS: Rashid Johnson on artwork as a supply of potential pleasure (Video)
Artist Rashid Johnson has used a number of media and supplies to create works that study race, masculinity, id, aesthetics, and (he says) his personal anxiousness. Now, Johnson’s profession is the main focus of an exhibition on the Guggenheim New York, “A Poem for Deep Thinkers.” Correspondent Alina Cho stories.

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MUSIC: Laufey on creating her personal sound | Watch Video
Whimsical 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 reveals, bestselling albums, and a Grammy Award. Along with her third album, “A Matter of Time,” being launched this week, she sits down with correspondent Tracy Smith to debate her musical tastes; her response to the response of younger followers; and the fun of singing a duet with Barbra Streisand of a music she composed, “Letter To My 13-12 months-Previous Self.”

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Prolonged interview – Laufey (Video)
The Icelandic singer and instrumentalist Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir, who data below the title Laufey, talks with “Sunday Morning” correspondent Tracy Smith concerning the ambiguity she finds whereas composing music. She additionally discusses going viral in the course of the COVID pandemic by posting her performances of jazz requirements on-line; the blurring of genres; and turning into a bridge for youthful audiences to discover conventional jazz and classical, as she data music whereas enjoying piano, guitar and cello. She additionally performs “Dreamer,” from her album “Bewitched.”

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WORLD: The Summit: Trump’s diplomatic gambit, and Putin’s prize (Video)
The primary assembly between the American and Russian presidents since Vladimir Putin launched his struggle on Ukraine three-and-a-half years in the past resulted in no ceasefire, and no concrete outcomes. So, what did President Trump and President Putin obtain? CBS Information chief political analyst John Dickerson provides perspective on a gathering resulted in a fog of diplomatic ambiguity.

TECH: A robotics activist’s exceptional campaign (Video)
Twenty-two years in the past, Silicon Valley government Henry Evans had a large stroke that left him mute and paralyzed from the neck down. However that did not forestall him from turning into a number one advocate of adaptive robotic tech to assist disabled individuals – or from writing nation songs, one letter at a time. Correspondent John Blackstone talks with Evans about his upbeat perspective and unlikely pursuits.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Robots open up the world of artwork (Video)
The De Younger, one in every of San Francisco’s nice artwork museums, now has two robots that open the museum as much as those that can not attend, together with the bodily handicapped. John Blackstone stories on the state-of-the-art in museum tour guides, and interviews robotics activist Henry Evans, a former Silicon Valley government who’s now nearly fully paralyzed, and who labored with the museum to make touring by robotic a actuality. (Air date: March 1, 2025.)  

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THESE UNITED STATES: America’s first money crop (Video)
Tobacco had been cultivated and smoked by Native People for hundreds of years earlier than Christopher Columbus launched it to Europe. Jane Pauley stories on how rising tobacco grew to become America’s first money crop – and ingrained within the nation’s tradition for generations.  

TV: “Severance” star Adam Scott | Watch Video
Actor Adam Scott (who beforehand starred within the sitcom “Parks and Recreation”) is the Emmy-nominated lead within the critically-acclaimed Apple TV+ collection “Severance,” about staff at a mysterious company whose brains are altered to create distinctly separate personalities out and in of the workplace. He talks with correspondent Conor Knighton about his 30-year path to this head journey of a collection, and what it took for him to tug it off. Knighton additionally talks with director Ben Stiller about how the surreal present got here collectively.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Prolonged interview – Adam Scott (Video)
Actor Adam Scott, star of the surreal Apple TV+ collection “Severance,” talks with correspondent Conor Knighton about how the fascination with TV and movie shoots originated for him. He additionally discusses on the lookout for dramatic roles after turning into generally known as a comic book star within the sitcom “Parks and Recreation”; and the way he responded to the celebrity that got here with the success of “Severance.”

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PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
“Sunday Morning” remembers among the notable figures who left us this week, together with former little one actress Danielle Spencer, star of the Nineteen Seventies sitcom “What’s Taking place!!”

NATIONAL: A pilgrimage to the desk with the best view | Watch Video
Within the late Nineteen Seventies, a gaggle of college college students in West Texas, wanting a spot to review with a view, hauled a desk to the highest of Hancock Hill (elevation: 4,900 ft), within the city of Alpine. At the moment, the desk is a pilgrimage for hikers looking for a meditative place, who go away behind messages within the desk’s pocket book. Correspondent Janet Shamlian stories on what has develop into a singular journey vacation spot.

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MILEPOST: So lengthy, Joe Frandino! (Video)
“Sunday Morning” says goodbye to veteran editor Joseph Frandino, retiring after a few years right here at CBS Information.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Recovering from loss, a household finds power (2017)

FROM THE ARCHIVES: When Mitch Albom discovered Chika (2019)

       
NATURE: Windfall Canyon in Georgia (Prolonged Video)
We go away you this Sunday at Windfall Canyon in Southwest Georgia. Videographer: Darrall Johnson.         

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MARATHON: The marvels of Alaska (YouTube Video)
Discover the majesty of the forty ninth State with these entertaining tales from the “Sunday Morning” archives: 

• Charles Osgood seems to be again on the 1867 buy of Alaska (2008)
• A go to to the Gates of the Arctic Nationwide Park (2017)
• Browsing within the frigid waters off Yakutat, Alaska (2000)
• Luke Burbank on a grueling 750-mile boat race from Port Townsend, Washington to Ketchikan, Alaska (2017)
• How WWII troopers and laborers helped pave the way in which for Alaska’s growth (1992)
• Prince William Sound, 5 years after the Exxon Valdez catastrophe (1994)
• The World Ice Artwork Championships in Fairbanks, Alaska (2015)
• Elevating sled canines in Denali Nationwide Park (2016)
• Lee Cowan visits Whittier, Alaska, the place almost all the inhabitants lives below the identical roof (2021)
• The seek for the stays of a U.S. Air Pressure crew misplaced in a airplane crash on an Alaskan glacier in 1952 (2022)
• Humorist David Sedaris on the highlights of his journey to Alaska (2022)
• Conor Knighton takes a experience on the Alaska Railroad (2023)
• Nature: Northern Lights (2024)  

GALLERY: LOLLAPALOOZA 2025
Scroll by means of our gallery of a few of 2025’s main reside acts, together with from Chicago’s Lollapalooza pageant, that includes pictures by CBS Information photojournalist Jake Barlow and photographers Ed Spinelli and Kirstine Walton. 

MARATHON: An ode to espresso lovers (YouTube Video)
“CBS Sunday Morning” serves up a wealthy pot of tales concerning the types of espresso brewed throughout international locations and cultures.

• A Tokyo café the place clients are on deadline
• Style testing with synthetic intelligence
• The key behind bodega espresso
• True espresso love: Attending a college of espresso
• Jim Gaffigan: Decaf espresso is un-American
• Almanac: On the spot espresso
• A toast to Irish espresso
• Bringing Yemeni espresso again to America
• Pumpkin spice takes over the world
• How single-serve espresso grew to become a “must-have”
• Espresso for a smile

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