This week on “Sunday Morning” (August 17)

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Hosted by Jane Pauley

History of coverage: capturing the merger of glaciers, with data and art
For more than 40 years, the Mauri Pelto glaciologist has been measuring the glaciers in narrowing in the rugged mountains of northern cascade of the state of Washington. He was joined by his daughter, the artist-scientist Jill Pelto, whose watercolors offer another vision of the landscape radically changing, because the effects of climate change caused by man on glaciers become even more apparent claim. Ben Tracy correspondent reports. [Produced in partnership with Climate Central.]

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Almanac: August 17
“Sunday Morning” returns to historical events on this date.

Arts: Rashid Johnson on art as a source of potential joy
The artist Rashid Johnson has used several media and materials to create works that examine race, masculinity, identity, aesthetics and (he says) his own anxiety. Now Johnson’s career is at the center of an exhibition at Guggenheim New York, “a poem for deep thinkers”. Alina Cho corresponding reports.

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TV: become a television commercial icon
You know them as Flo, the progressive insurance seller; Mayhem, the human production method of disasters covered by Allstate; And the unstoppable dancer of jardiance Diabetes Drug Ads. The correspondent David Pogue speaks with actors Stephanie Courtney, Dean Winters and Deanna Colon on the way of becoming famous nationally via television advertisements A (or has not changed their lives. (Date of original air: February 9, 2025.)

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Music: Laufey on the creation of his own sound
Powder and romantic, the music of the Icelandic singer and cellist Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir, or Laufey, mixes pop, jazz, classic and bossa nova – a “Mishmash”, she calls it, which led to closed -stop shows, successful albums and a Grammy Award. With her third album, “A Match of Time”, released this week, she sits with the correspondent Tracy Smith to discuss her musical tastes; his reaction to the response of young fans; And the thrill of singing a duo with Barbra Streisand of a song she composed, “Letter to my 13 year old self”.

To hear Laufey Interpreting “Silver Lining”, from his album “A Match of Time”, click on the video player below:

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Passage: in Memoriam
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures that have left us this week.

National: an office with the best view
At the end of the 1970s, a group of university students in western Texas, wanting a place to study with a view, transported an office at the top of Hancock Hill (altitude: 4,900 feet), in the city of Alpine. Today, the office is a pilgrimage for hikers looking for a meditative place, which leaves messages behind it in the office notebook. The correspondent Janet Shamlian reports what has become a unique travel destination

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These United States: America’s first pension culture
Tobacco had been cultivated and smoked by Amerindians for centuries before Christopher Columbus introduced it to Europe. Jane Pauley reports how tobacco growth has become the first culture of annuity in America – and anchored in the culture of the country for generations.

TV: Star of “Severance” Adam Scott
The actor Adam Scott (who previously played in the sitcom “Parks and Recreation”) is the main role nominated for EMMY in the Apple TV + series acclaimed by the EMMY, about the workers of a mysterious company whose brains are modified to create distinctly distinct personalities in and outside the office. He speaks with the correspondent Conor Knighton of his 30 -year -old path to this trip at the head of a series, and what it took to remove it. Knighton also speaks with director Ben Stiller about how the surreal spectacle met.

To watch the opening titles of “Severance”, click on the video player below:

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World: the summit
CBS News Political Analyst John Dickerson offers a prospect at the top of the high issues on Friday between President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia.

Tech: the remarkable crusade of a robotic activist
Twenty-two years ago, the director of the Silicon Valley, Henry Evans, had a massive stroke that left it silent and paralyzed from the neck. But that did not prevent him from becoming a leading defender of adaptive robotic technology to help people with disabilities – or to write country songs, one letter at a time. The correspondent John Blackstone speaks with Evans of his optimistic attitude and his unlikely activities.

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Nature: Providence Canyon in Georgia

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GALLERY: LOLLAPALOOZA 2025
Scroll over our gallery of some of the main live acts of 2025, including the Lollapalooza festival of Chicago, with images of the photojournalist of CBS News Jake Barlow and Ed Spinelli and Kirstine Walton photographers.

From the archives: robots open the world of art (video)
The De Young, one of the art museums in San Francisco, now has two robots that open the museum to those who cannot attend, including physically disabled. John Blackstone reports on the tip of tourist guides from the museum and interviews the militant in robotics Henry Evans, a former Silicon Valley executive which is now almost entirely paralyzed and who worked with the museum to make the tour by robot a reality. (Air date: March 1, 2025.)

Marathon: an ode to coffee lovers (YouTube video)
“CBS Sunday Morning” serves a rich pot of stories on the varieties of coffee brewed across countries and cultures.

• A Tokyo Café where customers are on the deadline
• Taste test with artificial intelligence
• The secret behind Bodega Coffee
• True Espresso Love: attend a coffee university
• Jim Gaffigan: The decafferated coffee is not American
• Almanac: Instant coffee
• A Toast at Irish coffee
• Bring back the Yemeni coffee in America
• Pumpkin spices take control of the world
• How unique coffee has become a “essential”
• Coffee for a smile

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