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America is in a very angry moment. Social media is a showcase of that anger. Sunday, Bill Whitaker speaks with leading voices in academia and tech who say platforms like Facebook and Twitter are helping to create polarization in American society. cbsn.ws/3WrjI9j
“The audience isn’t wrong, right? You can’t convince somebody that something is funny. Either they laughed at it or they didn’t… And the audience is telling you all of that. And so it’s my job to listen to them,” David Sedaris tells Jon Wertheim. cbsn.ws/3Wg1B6d
“It just seemed like everyone was listening to the radio that day… I went from somebody with no opportunities to someone having to weed them out,” David Sedaris describes to Jon Wertheim what it was like when “The Santaland Diaries” went viral. cbsn.ws/3DIrCUv
“[Our mom would] work the story, which is where he gets it from,” Amy Sedaris, David Sedaris’ sister, tells Jon Wertheim. cbsn.ws/3SSbT9H
“I’m in show business, and I love the show business life. I really do. It’s the laziest form of show business there is, but I think of it as show business. I do,” David Sedaris explains to Jon Wertheim. cbsn.ws/3fncylR
“There are probably more pathogens that we don’t know about than ones that we do know about,” UC Davis epidemiologist and wildlife vet Tierra Smiley Evans tells Bill Whitaker. cbsn.ws/3UdcZ0D
Impenetrable Forest park ranger Wilbur Tumwesigye tells Bill Whitaker that humans have identified 14 different sounds mountain gorillas make—and he has mastered many of those sounds. cbsn.ws/3zwFcrG
“I would say another pandemic is guaranteed,” wildlife epidemiologist Christine Johnson tells Bill Whitaker. cbsn.ws/3sG1LpY
This week on 60 Minutes, Bill Whitaker joins a team of virus hunters in Uganda on the search for Pathogen X. cbsn.ws/3zwD0QN