01/22/2023: Carnegie Heroes, Ballet in Exile, Flying Blind
60 Minutes
CBS News
4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In 1904. Andrew Carnegie donated millions of dollars to recognize heroes in the U.S. and Canada. Scott Pelley meets some of the recipients of the Carnegie Hero medal and finds out what neuroscience is revealing about their brains. Russia's attack on Ukraine is affecting every industry, including ballet companies in both countries. Jon Wertheim speaks with dance exiles and hears the difficulties they have faced. Freeride skiing is no easy feat. Instead of following runs that avoid obstacles, you ski towards obstacles. 15-year-old Jacob Smith is a freerider and is legally blind. Sharyn Alfonsi meets Smith to learn how he completes these treacherous runs.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Pogue from CBS Sunday Morning. |
| 0:03.0 | In the new season of my podcast, Unsung Science, |
| 0:06.6 | you'll meet the discoverers of Ernest Chackelton's |
| 0:09.0 | shipwreck and Dorrance lost beneath the Antarctic |
| 0:12.3 | for 100 years. |
| 0:13.7 | It looked like the day when it sank. |
| 0:16.7 | It's just a very good environment down there |
| 0:19.5 | to conserve the shipwreck. |
| 0:21.1 | The woman who invented forensic genealogy |
| 0:23.8 | and has solved over 150 cold cases. |
| 0:27.1 | It's controversial, right? |
| 0:28.5 | Because you never know if sitting around your Thanksgiving |
| 0:31.5 | table, there's somebody who's been getting away |
| 0:33.6 | with murder or rape. |
| 0:34.8 | And the NASA engineers who flew a helicopter on Mars. |
| 0:39.3 | The density is 1% that of Earth's 1% air density. |
| 0:42.9 | It sounds impossible, and it is almost impossible. |
| 0:45.5 | It's season two of Unsung Science, |
| 0:48.0 | presented by CBS Sunday Morning and Simon & Schuster. |
| 0:51.9 | Listen to Unsung Science on Amazon Music, |
| 0:54.4 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:59.2 | I'm Mooraka, and I'm back with season three |
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