How design colors the mind

Susan Spencer on how the psychology of design and color has been applied to analysts' offices, jails, even locker rooms to surprising effect | Watch video

Web extra: The evolution of the psychoanalyst's office

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The bells are still ringing, for the last 1,000 years

Video: Allen Pizzey visits Agnone, a town in Italy that owes its success to never changing the design of the bells they've been making for a thousand years

Jennifer Lopez: A design for living

The singer-actress is also a fashionable business tycoon who tells Lee Cowan that "workaholic" is not a dirty word | Watch video

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Web extra Video: Jennifer Lopez on fashion line: "It has to be me"

Dressing down a culture for refusing to dress up

Nancy Giles meets a crusading Notre Dame professor who seeks to teach her students the lost art of more elegant attire | Watch video

PLUS: Take our poll on Elegant Nancy vs. Slob Nancy

Houses that are for the birds

Video: Martha Teichner meets Tom Burke, whose career took flight when he gave up building houses for people to build elegant birdhomes | View gallery

A tour through the Hutongs of Beijing

Video: In China the labyrinthine streets known as Hutongs re-define your typical "old" part of town - some date back centuries, to the Yuan and Ming dynasties. But many such ancient passages have been bulldozed into history. Seth Doane explores the oldest surviving commercial street in Beijing

Nature: Peacocks

This week's moment in nature leaves you with some proud peacocks strutting their stuff in Davie, Florida.

Tom Hanks: A "Lucky Guy" in more ways than one

Rita Braver on the much-liked movie star, making his Broadway debut as a tabloid journalist, a role he originally hated | Watch video | View gallery

Natalie Maines: Going solo with "Mother"

The defiant Dixie Chicks lead singer starts a new chapter with her first solo album, as Lee Cowan reports (featuring streaming audio) | Watch video | View gallery

Faith Salie on becoming a new mom at middle-age

Says being an "old mom" of a young baby makes every moment with her child even more precious | Watch video

Migratory birds return for the summer

Video: National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore on the mysteries of migratory birds, who return from their Southern winter havens - many to the exact same spot every year

The "retro-future" of "The Jetsons"

The 1960s animated series depicted life in the 21st century, from flying cars to housekeeper robots; Lee Cowan reports on the family that raised our hopes and expectations for the future | Watch video

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The newest thing in architecture: Something old

Tracy Smith reports on a N.Y. design team using timeless materials and styles to create new buildings that evoke nostalgia | Watch video

Gardens in the sky

In cities where skyscrapers dominate the landscape, people go to great lengths - or rather, great heights - to create gardens, as Erin Moriarty shows us | Watch video

Work spaces: Past and present

Video: Richard Schlesinger visits Herman Miller, the creator of iconic chairs and furniture, as well as the dreaded work cubicle. So what's in store for today's workplace?

The benefits of multi-generational homes

Video: Fifty million Americans live in multi-generational homes, and many want houses that fit their expanded families, as Anna Werner reports

The strange, inventive world of wallpaper

Video: Some historians believe wallpaper had ancient origins, but despite its popularity among past generations it had fallen out of favor. Now some entrepreneurial wallpaper designers are stirring a renaissance of wall coverings with styles that surprise and amuse, as Rita Braver reports | View gallery

Battered mini-golf course gets back on its feet

Video: Bill Geist meets Glenn Lynn, who has designed more than 400 mini-golf courses, and is adding one more to his list: Barnacle Bill's miniature golf course, which like many other Jersey Shore businesses was obliterated by Hurricane Sandy

The dignity of Sidney Poitier

The Oscar-winning actor-director (and now novelist) talks to Lesley Stahl of his responsibility to portray characters possessing nothing less than moral strength and ethics | View gallery

Just the two of us: Childless by choice

More and more couples in the U.S. are opting out of having children and living their lives kid-free; Tracy Smith reports | Watch video

The modern midwifery movement

Video: In honor of Mother's Day, Jan Crawford introduces viewers to Ina May Gaskin, an Iowa farm woman who is helping to revive a natural childbirth process used by more and more American mothers

Former CBS News correspondent Jan Petersen dies at 63

Wife of Barry Petersen was subject of his book, "Jan's Story," about the effects on their marriage of her early-onset Alzheimer's disease

Watch video: Jan's story

Edelstein on "Great Gatsby," "Star Trek Into Darkness"

Spectacle abounds as a literary masterpiece and a hallowed sci-fi crew are brought back to the screen | Watch video

Michelle Obama: Cherishing her platform

The first lady talks to Lee Cowan of inspiring better health, helping to heal victims of violence, and the struggles of parenting | Watch video

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