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A daughter's words inspire her parents to embrace life
60 Minutes· 2025-11-24 00:02
60 Minutes overtime. >> What was Gracie like. >> She was lively.>> Very >> like Yeah. Just full of life. Love life.Love people, you know, was adventurous. >> Your face lights up just thinking about >> cuz she was, you know, just super special girl. This week on 60 Minutes, I worked on a story with producer Katie Brennan about the empty rooms that are left behind by children who have been murdered in school shootings.>> I'd gotten a sense that the country had grown numb to all the school shootings, and I tho ...
Russia's assault on Ukrainian civilians raises war crimes concerns
60 Minutes· 2025-11-23 23:58
60 Minutes overtime. >> Has Russia just completely abandoned the loss of war. >> It feels that way.Operations seem to be launched with the goal of maximizing the civilian harm rather than minimizing the civilian harm, which is what the laws of war demand. >> Why would that be. I think it's an effort to ultimately win the war by virtue of wearing down the Ukrainian people whose resoluteness has been remarkable in the face of these attacks.>> This week on 60 Minutes, we take a look at Russia's ongoing war in ...
Mind Reading and Magic | 60 Minutes Full Episodes
60 Minutes· 2025-11-22 12:00
Mentalism and Perception - O Pearlman, a mentalist, gains popularity by reading people, not minds, mystifying celebrities and intelligent audiences [1][2][3] - Mentalism relies on reading body language, observing eye movements, and leveraging audience skepticism [8][12] - The act involves deception, creating the illusion of mind-reading by guiding choices and limiting possibilities [10][6][9] Neuroscience and Mind Reading Technology - Neuroscience advances enable thought identification using fMRI, combining brain activity analysis with computer science [32][34] - fMRI technology can identify thoughts related to objects, emotions, and intentions by analyzing brain activation patterns [36][42][67] - Research explores the potential to detect lies, track locations, and understand complex thoughts like kindness and hypocrisy [46][47][58] - Ethical concerns arise regarding the use of mind-reading technology in legal, commercial, and personal contexts [45][56] Applications and Implications - Neuromarketing uses fMRI to understand consumer preferences, raising ethical questions about its reliability and potential for manipulation [55][57] - Brain scanning technology is explored for identifying suicidal thoughts and understanding mental disorders like autism [83][78] - Legal and societal implications of forced brain scans are debated, questioning the balance between security and individual rights [49][51] Magic as a Metaphor - The College of Magic in Cape Town uses magic to teach life skills, promote imagination, and bridge social divides [93][96] - Magic fosters skepticism, curiosity, and imaginative thinking, valuable skills applicable beyond the realm of illusion [102][108] - For some students, magic provides a path out of poverty and a means of self-expression and community engagement [105][117]
The Empty Rooms | Sunday on 60 Minutes
60 Minutes· 2025-11-21 20:12
Steve Hartman, a veteran CBS News correspondent, and Lou Bope, a photographer, have spent the last seven years asking parents whose children were killed in school shootings for permission to take pictures of the empty rooms they left behind. Rooms that have become sanctuaries, a tangible link to a child they can feel but no longer hold. All these physical things are tangible ways of reminding me like she was real.She was here. She lived with us. >> Yeah. ...
The Last Best Place | Sunday on 60 Minutes
60 Minutes· 2025-11-21 13:44
Montana's landscape beguiles as it unfolds. A patchwork of golden prairies and green mountains with rivers that run through it. So when politicians in Washington DC suggested selling off public lands for development, Montanins of all stripes stood in opposition.>> It's a red, white, and blue issue. It's not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is an American issue.And once you sell land, you're not going to get it back. ...
The Bus On Route 62 | Sunday on 60 Minutes
60 Minutes· 2025-11-20 23:53
On Palm Sunday, the bus on Route 62 happened to be on Peter and Paul Street. At the same moment, a warhead was bearing down at 2,000 m an hour. One blow on more than a dozen cameras.The attack in Ukraine is being investigated as a war crime, one of thousands in a Russian campaign against the innocent. The attack seems to be calculated to make as much destruction as possible and to terrorize the civilian. ...
The Nuremberg Prosecutor | 60 Minutes Archive
60 Minutes· 2025-11-20 12:03
60 minutes rewind. It is not often you get the chance to meet a man who holds a place in history like Ben Fen. When we first reported on him back in 2017, he was 97 years old, barely 5t tall, and he had served as prosecutor of what's been called the biggest murder trial ever. The courtroom was Nuremberg. the crime, genocide, and the defendants, a group of German SS officers accused of committing the largest number of Nazi killings outside the concentration camps. More than a million men, women, and children ...
An inside look at chess boxing #shorts
60 Minutes· 2025-11-19 22:15
through 75 fights >> representing Russia. >> Russia won victory after victory. >> Russia. Russia. >> Russia.>> But there were other contenders, too. We saw knockdowns and knockouts. There was a little blood, a lot of sweat, but no tears.We saw fighters who flexed and grizzled veterans who tried. We saw nervous newbies and women fighters who pulled no punches. >> IMMEDIATELY, A KNOCKDOWN TO START THE FIGHT BY FRANCE.>> Then it was showtime for chess master William Grafe. Coach Matt Thomas told us chess playe ...
From Globetrotter to chess boxer #shorts
60 Minutes· 2025-11-19 20:00
A former Harlem Globe Trotter, Clark traded hoops for the ring 11 years ago. He's got the staredown perfected. His chess a work in progress.We first met God King in Time Square, where he'd taken out a billboard to drum up interest in the sport. Clark told us he had one uncle who was a boxer and another who was a chess master. And the next thing you know, the chess board would roll out and they would be playing chess till 1 and 2:00 in the morning and I was just always around it.And so when I heard of chess ...
American underdog surprises the chess boxing world #shorts
60 Minutes· 2025-11-19 19:45
Halfway through the tournament, the scrappy underdogs of Team USA had two gold medals. >> But the Russian march to first place continued. >> We are this great rival for everybody.>> Peter Zukov is a Russian businessman and the founder of the Russian Chess Boxing Federation. >> He told us chess and boxing are hardwired into Russia's history. In Soviet old school Russian boxing gyms, they would play chess after boxing training.They would just do it to develop certain qualities in their fighters. >> They play ...