This week on “Sunday Morning” (August 17)

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COVER STORY: Capturing the melting of glaciers, with information and artwork
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 consequences of human-caused local weather change on glaciers turns into much more starkly obvious. Correspondent Ben Tracy reviews. [Produced in partnership with Climate Central.]

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

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

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TV: Turning into a TV business icon
You realize them as Flo, the Progressive Insurance coverage saleswoman; Mayhem, the human embodiment of disasters lined 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 by way of TV commercials has (or hasn’t) modified their lives. (Authentic air date: Feb. 9, 2025.)

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MUSIC: Laufey on creating her personal sound
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 exhibits, 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 joys of singing a duet with Barbra Streisand of a tune she composed, “Letter To My 13-12 months-Previous Self.”

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PASSAGE: In memoriam
“Sunday Morning” remembers among the notable figures who left us this week.

NATIONAL: A desk with the best view
Within the late 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 toes), within the city of Alpine. In the present day, the desk is a pilgrimage for hikers searching for a meditative place, who go away behind messages within the desk’s pocket book. Correspondent Janet Shamlian reviews on what has turn into a singular journey vacation spot  

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THESE UNITED STATES: America’s first money crop
Tobacco had been cultivated and smoked by Native Individuals for hundreds of years earlier than Christopher Columbus launched it to Europe. Jane Pauley reviews 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
Actor Adam Scott (who beforehand starred within the sitcom “Parks and Recreation”) is the Emmy-nominated lead within the critically-acclaimed Apple TV+ sequence “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 sequence, and what it took for him to drag it off. Knighton additionally talks with director Ben Stiller about how the surreal present got here collectively.

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WORLD: The summit
CBS Information chief political analyst John Dickerson gives perspective on Friday’s high-stakes summit between President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia.

       
TECH: A robotics activist’s outstanding campaign
Twenty-two years in the past, Silicon Valley government Henry Evans had an enormous 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.

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NATURE: Windfall Canyon in Georgia

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

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

MARATHON: An ode to espresso lovers (YouTube Video)
“CBS Sunday Morning” serves up a wealthy pot of tales concerning the forms 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: Immediate 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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