60 Minutes - Overtime

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn't what you think

"60 Minutes" producers clear up misconceptions about the concentration of litter — including plastic — in the ocean between California and Hawaii

In her 60s, the Laysan albatross has seen a lot in her years on Midway Atoll—including a world before plastics

Ballistics tests show how lethal a wound from an AR-15 style rifle can be. Now there's a campaign to teach civilians how to be first responders

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Toni Morrison: The "60 Minutes" Interview

Toni Morrison, author of great American novels such as "Beloved" and "Sula," has died. She spoke with Ed Bradley on 60 Minutes in 1998
Watch a prodigy create — from 4 notes in a hat

"60 Minutes" pulls four musical notes out of a hat, and young composer Alma Deutscher takes off, improvising a piano solo in under a minute

Original
Where tomorrow's technology is born

Want to order a pizza with your mind? Wear an exoskeleton to help you run? The MIT Media Lab may make it possible
How China can spy on your electronics — even in the U.S.

A counterintelligence official tells 60 Minutes that no one should expect electronic privacy when it comes to China or Chinese-owned companies
Looking for life on Mars — at the bottom of a gold mine

Two miles below Earth's surface, scientists found animal life in a South African gold mine. They wonder: If life can exist there, could it exist on Mars?
Bill Whitaker, the subterranean reporter

Somehow the correspondent keeps ending up reporting from underground. There's just one problem: He can be claustrophobic
Fukushima's ghost towns

More than eight years after one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, towns around Japan's nuclear power plant struggle to rebuild
Ray Dalio explains his principles

The billionaire hedge fund manager says his guidelines are the key to his company's success. But do employees really want "radical truthfulness"?
Getting a bird's-eye view of hunting eagles

To film this week's story about the last eagle hunters of Mongolia, 60 Minutes cameramen needed patience and ingenuity

Candids
Anderson Cooper on speaking the "language of loss"

In a candid interview with 60 Minutes Overtime, the correspondent and anchor shares his own experience with grief & explains how it informs his work
Steve Kroft reports remarkable story of redemption

Steve Kroft says Shon Hopwood's journey from convicted bank robber to Georgetown law professor is "one of the most compelling stories" he's ever reported on 60 Minutes
John Green's advice: Don't forget to be awesome

The best-selling author and YouTube star wants to "decrease world suck." Here's why millions of teenagers are helping him do it
Artist's hidden message on Ellis Island

The street artist JR has brought his trademark oversized photographs to an abandoned immigrants' hospital, but there's more than meets the eye
Learning history from a man who made it

Lesley Stahl tells 60 Minutes Overtime that talking with Ben Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor at Nuremberg, "felt like a privilege"
Reporting on frontotemporal dementia

To raise awareness of this little-known disease, a "60 Minutes" team realized "you sort of have to see somebody in the throes of it"
Where in the world is bitcoin's mysterious creator?

"60 Minutes" producer Andy Court talks about the mystery of bitcoin's inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, and the challenges of reporting on cryptocurrency

Rewind
60 Minutes' reporting from Fukushima

The broadcast has been covering Japan's nuclear accident since it occurred in 2011. The latest report: robots aiding in the cleanup of nuclear fuel
The moon landing at 50: Neil Armstrong in his own words

In a 2005 interview, former astronaut Neil Armstrong discussed how it felt to walk on the moon, and why he shunned the fame that came from it
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: The "60 Minutes" Interview

In 2010, Justice Stevens gave Scott Pelley a tour of the Supreme Court and spoke about some of its biggest cases
Rewind: Venice's Project Moses

This week, 60 Minutes learns how Amsterdam is prepared for flooding. But what about the other city of canals?
Ross Perot: The 60 Minutes interview

Morley Safer interviewed the brash billionaire during his first bid for president in 1992
The unlikely inventors of 60 Minutes past

Lesley Stahl reports on a man making new biofuels. He's the latest inventor 60 Minutes has profiled whose products were famous, even if they weren't
Andy Rooney on D-Day: "A day unlike any other"

Back in 2004, the 60 Minutes commentator, who had been a war correspondent during WWII, remembered what he saw on Utah Beach 75 years ago