Meet the minds behind Freakonomics
Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner continue to upend accepted wisdom with their love of data, as evident in their new book, "Think Like a Freak"
Books
Breaking through autism with Disney movies
Ron Suskind's son Owen "vanished" within himself, but learned to re-engage the world - and see himself differently - through his love of animated characters
Mitch Albom on life, charity and God
The author of "Tuesdays With Morrie" talks to Jane Pauley of his new novel, "The First Phone Call From Heaven," and about the role of death - and living - in his books
Passage: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Remembering the Nobel laureate whose works included the novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera"
Elizabeth Warren, the fighter
The Mass. Senator's aggressive style and message of economic populism has made her revered by progressives and reviled by big business
For kids' book author Mo Willems, childhood is an awful time
The prize-winning creator of such favorites as "Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" found success by posing the hard questions a five-year-old asks
How much change can Pope Francis bring to the Catholic Church?
Observers say pontiff may disappoint those who seek real reform in the Church, due to pushback from the Vatican's entrenched bureaucracy
The works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A list of published fiction and non-fiction by the Nobel laureate writer who died this week at age 87
Unraveling the disappearance of Michael Rockefeller
In 1961 a member of one of the nation's most prominent families vanished off the coast of New Guinea; two new books examine his life and tragic death
Are elite athletes born or made?
10,000 hours of practice is said to help anyone gain true expertise, but athletic talent may be more reliant on "sports genes"
The surprising result of a son's search for his father
Tony Dokoupil's dad disappeared when he was six; his quest to find his father led him into the thick of the 1980s drug wars
The serious work of comedy
Writers for David Letterman and brain scientists agree: humor is hard to create, and even harder to understand when it works
Book excerpt: "The Last Pirate"
Journalist Tony Dokoupil's memoir recounts his quest to find his missing father, a successful marijuana smuggler
A dying breed: The American shopping mall
With the explosion of the Internet and changing shopping habits, hundreds of U.S. malls are expected to close their doors, but some entrepreneurs see ways to buck that trend
Time for a little word history, OK?
Mo Rocca checks out how two letters came to comprise one of our most-used expressions
More From Sunday Morning
Book excerpt: "It Doesn't Have to Hurt" by Dr. Sanjay Gupta
In his new book, the neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent for CNN writes about chronic pain, and the innovative techniques now being used to study and treat it.
This week on "Sunday Morning" (August 31)
A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the Emmy-winning program, hosted by Jane Pauley.
This week on "Sunday Morning" (August 24): By Design
A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the Emmy-winning program, hosted by Jane Pauley.
A pilgrimage to the desk with the greatest view
In the late 1970s, a group of university students in West Texas, wanting a place to study with a view, hauled a desk to the top of Hancock Hill in the town of Alpine. Today, the desk is a pilgrimage for hikers seeking a meditative place.
"Severance" star Adam Scott
The former "Parks and Recreation" star heads the surreal, critically-acclaimed series about workers at a mysterious corporation whose brains are altered to create distinctly separate personalities in and out of the office.
Laufey on creating her own sound
Whimsical and romantic, the music of Icelandic singer and cellist Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir blends pop, jazz, classical and bossa nova – a "mishmash," she calls it. Her latest album is "A Matter of Time."
Capturing the melting of glaciers, with data and art
For more than 40 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has been measuring shrinking glaciers in Washington State. He's been joined by his daughter, artist-scientist Jill Pelto, whose watercolors provide another view of the drastically-changing landscape.
This week on "Sunday Morning" (August 17)
A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the Emmy-winning program, hosted by Jane Pauley.
To tip or not to tip: That is David Sedaris' question
The humorist has some thoughts about gratuities, especially when they're pre-programmed onto a screen.
The JFK Files
More than six decades after the Kennedy assassination, the existence of unreleased documents from the investigation has continued to fuel questions - and conspiracy theories - in search for a "smoking gun." What did the recent release of thousands of documents reveal?