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Can the logic of corporate finance be applied to the individual? Louis Kelso believed it could. In 1975, 60 Minutes profiled the economist who argued employees should own a stake in the company for which they work.
In 1983, 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer reported on the story of Lenell Geter, a young, successful engineer who was sentenced to life in prison for armed robbery. Safer and producer Suzanne St. Pierre, who died earlier this month at age 88, dug into the case and saved Geter's life.
How does Jerry Seinfeld define a laugh? "It's a chemical explosion," the comedian said in a 2020 interview with 60 Minutes, in which he reflected on his career, family life and relationship with New York.
60 Minutes traveled to Madagascar in 2012 to report on efforts being made to save endangered turtles and tortoises, including the plowshare tortoise, a species that remains at risk of extinction due to poaching for the illegal pet trade.
To mark Earth Day, 60 Minutes looks back on our reporting on climate change and the environment over the years.
Last year, 60 Minutes reported that scientists were sounding an alarm that we were living in the midst of the sixth mass extinction. Biologist Paul Ehrlich told Scott Pelley that humans would need "five more Earths" to maintain our current way of life.
Buried 300 feet underground, the Collider smashes subatomic particles together with enormous energy. As Lesley Stahl reported in 2015, by studying the collisions, scientists made a major discovery: the Higgs boson. Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, the particle's namesake, died this week at 94.
In 2020, Anderson Cooper reported on companies seeking out potential employees with autism, and the employment opportunities being made available to people on the autism spectrum.
Thirty years ago, Immaculée Ilibagiza survived the Rwandan genocide by hiding in a tiny bathroom with several other Tutsi women for three months. In 2006, Ilibagiza spoke to 60 Minutes about the atrocity and the value of forgiveness.
Rare earth elements and metals used to make cellphones, supercomputers and more are sitting on the ocean floor, ready to be mined by multiple countries. In 2019, Bill Whitaker reported on the promise of deep sea mining.
