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An estimated ten percent of the world's population is left-handed, scientists have not definitely figured out why. Rita Braver talks with researchers who think differences in brain structure between those who are left-handed and right-handed may have implications in the treatment of disease. Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Peggy Lee -- who died in 2002, is known for such hits as "Fever" and "Is That All There Is." She demonstrated an alluring command over an audience with her sultry voice and precise stagecraft. Mo Rocca talks with biographer Peter Richmond and with Lee's granddaughter, Holly Foster-Wells, about the singer's legacy. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Luke Burbank has become part of a silent but cozy majority: those who prefer working from their beds. These stories and more on this week's "CBS Sunday Morning."

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The battle for dominance between left and right is no contest. The right wins hands down. Not talking politics.

About 90% of us are right-handed. To be fair, lefties are pretty accomplished a lot from Obama and Oprah to McCartney and Mozart plus of course, our resident lefty Rita braver to be left-handed percent of women writers.

Are there any well we never miss a tollbooth thing just a S lefties coming up on Sunday morning but I'm always right the myth and mystery of being a lefty she's a woman was taken one of life's simple gifts and is Lee Cowan will show us turn it into something extraordinary just just put your lips together and mourn the call made whistling sound. So we was that on Sunday morning Morocco will be looking back at the life of Peggy Lee, a legendary singer whose signature cool always turned up the heat saying Peggy Lee was never more than when she sang with a finger snapping arrangement all hello.

Wish he actually could snap your fingers.

She's really good at bagel diamond ring. I can tell you is I don't have the long fingers later on Sunday morning, Miss Peggy Lee Fay Salie discovers a footnote to history in New York's Central Park South don't visit the town in Tuscany. That's off the grid in more ways than one. Anthony Mason introduces us to allot a high star of the indie film licorice pizza plus we stretch out with Luke Burbank and more on this Sunday morning for 6 February 2022 will be back in a moment. Ask any lefty. It's not easy being left-handed and right-handed world, our favorite southpaw Rita braver uses some firsthand experience to explain this could be any gift in gadget shop, scissors, notebooks and pens. These items and scores of other products in the store specifically designed for left-handed people take this pastry server sharp cutting edge is on the left side so correct side. We like to say you may recall, the left from the Simpson's wages. Lefties in San Francisco is the real thing open by Margaret Manjula in 2008, and guess what, not a lefty I can even think I'm terrible with my left hand. No surprise lefties, including your faithful correspondent makeup, only an estimated 10% of the worlds population and understand that we sometimes feel well laughed out so some of your best friends are left-handed. Of course we lefties do have greatness in our ranks finest actors, musicians, techies, 25, including Bill Clinton, we seem to be over within certain fields politics life cracking ever. You know I like is what I started studying the way the brain functions.

It made me wonder whether it really was a little more creative and nonrational what you think. I have no conclusions on yourself. The auto so there has been this myth, lefties are more create skillet together here and now there is some research that shows left-handed people organize thoughts in a different way and tasks in a different way.

Absolutely. And that is is really mysterious author and journalist David morning was so intrigued by the mysteries and myths surrounding left-handers like him. He spent a year traveling the world to write a book about hand often associated with the devil. The very word left comes from the old English left, meaning weak or worthless Latin word for leftist sinister so that's really right out of right goes in French, which also means kind of crude undesirable. You should certainly not be eating with the left hand in countries where you don't have utensils.

Why is well you know it's not the cleanest dinner table talk, but the answer to that is that in four parts of the world people are trying to keep separate which they eat with in which hand they clean themselves. You mean after using exactly and older Americans may still remember when writing with the left hand was unknown. No, they were schoolteachers who were trying to back this behavior out of them and in other parts of the world.

Punishments very severe for following what is just a natural tendency lefties know all the jobs left-handed compliment, and more recently, swipe left for project and there's always having to left feet spell many lefties are great athletes from Max to tennis players in baseball. I think it definitely is a good thing. Sean Doolittle is not out in left field. He's one in a long line of famous southpaw pictures in 2019. He was the closer helping the Washington nationals win game one of the World Series. I got brought in the eighth inning when they have a left-handed header up and so I got the final out of the eighth inning. I finished the ninth inning. We got the win that lefty pitchers are good, not just getting left-handed batters out but also white batterers because righties are used to facing people like you so much right, it's just a different look, because in baseball there are much, much fewer left-handed pitcher so the ball is coming in on a different angle, but like most human beings left or right handed. Doolittle is also a bit dexterous.

I play golf right-handed. I kick with my right foot pretty good with scissors which is realizes about lefty, but a golf club writing is pretty weird so much is weird about being left-handed scientists know it's at least partially genetic. They've never been able to figure out exactly how it's passed on a recent study by scientists at the University of Oxford using genetic data from some 400,000 United Kingdom residents has revealed important new information. Dr. Carol Wiberg compacts the differences in DNA sequence between a very long time does Saunders what was the regions where the two groups with difference leverage Prof. Gwen duo says. The study found some very preliminary connections between handedness and development of certain diseases, hire people so if you see the risk off with very small still Prof. Dominic Furness says the discovery could yield important information on devising new treatments. One of the potent structures within the brain not working properly in these diseases.

Why are they not working properly very fundamental level.

The study also found some differences between left and right-handers in the brain's white matter material through which messages passed to the central nervous system so brain language. The study does say that your findings raise the possibility that left-handed people have an advantage when it comes to performing verbal tasks. This is really have required scientific testing. I would say sometimes I feel a little bit different than everyone else, you psychologist Charlotte Resnick lefty herself welcomes the idea of more scientific research help educate others who are right because it's really a little tough.

Left-handed and right-handed world sometimes she introduced us to seem to take it all in stride. I don't even the ink stains that still something that you should be proud of any even though your different. What would you say to parents who think, oh gosh, my childhood, just do better because the world is right-handed. I and what would lefty expert David Wallman do somebody came to you and said okay. I can magically make right-handed like everybody else say I would say are you out of your mind never know know know me either that the theme from the Griffith show. Now Lee Cowan has the tale of a young woman who started her perfect pitch into beautiful music songbirds for being a bit out here in California carries just as sweetly as they get. Some people would call my thing but I feel comfortable with that with all the friends of the ring and realized yeah I think I do it a lot more than I realize people here which is which. It does says a crevasse like when you play like I whistle and in I know people don't really understand what that means. Most of the time.

This is what that means whistle while you work. Human, but it's a difficult path. The path of the Whistler Richmond is not getting into whistling for the big bucks she told her parents want to help foster pitch perfect. They definitely got me into this in some ways their fault because I knew you both like stage parents, though they were in China.

Kino no*anything. She was 22 national patient was okay.

I definitely am a freak with the world of water interesting weirdos not use whistle just about anything she music everything here so I can kind of pick things out think the theme from the good, the bad example. I try to follow that will go. She's being overly generous anything about you, including how we feel whistle when you're whistling, impossible to be set right now that is not true. I think it's a misconception that you only listen when you're happy. I think I whistle through all emotions will go through challenges landed or not forgotten you invited. We watched the audience stay feeling silent time.

Yes, because I know people I listening to soft instrument Whistler rock band. Yet she doesn't groupings. She was heading for Molly Lewis branded ball. I know that it's unusual. There's a lady up there whistling something you see every day, leaving fans just categorize me. Molly Lewis is now on the peoples with his Lewis take me a while to feel confident with saying like I'm a Whistler this is what I'm doing, you know it's it's still something that I can't really believe is happening. The kind of found you whistle found me since Tony has sent us this postcard from Tuscany, partly because he had no other choice will explain this village in Tuscany framed by cypress trees does not just appear tranquil sizes. The only thing you hear is people talking in the straight ambient sounds here or that conversation and not cell phone signal is no service yes yes Carlucci grew up near Gagliano depot Jell-O and Broda guidebook about this place. This is a part of Tuscany that's a little less. Yes he didn't you'll medieval jewel with a modern distinction.

What was once part of the fiefdom of the mighty Medici family.

Now it's noteworthy for the lack of power overhead. There's no cell phone service. The town Butcher runs his business mostly by landline. Although bars at all.

He does keep a mobile phone handy. Not for calls. This town is not alone. There are 91 municipalities across Tuscany struggling with cell phone service in a country which is surprisingly weight behind technological times. Italy ranks near the bottom of the European commission's index of digital competitiveness, just behind Latvia Czech Republic and Croatia is for me it's not a big sacrifice Butcher on the red Wasi told us. But for those who need to work or are involved in long distance learning are great difficulties and they go to great links. As we learned on this long road on the outskirts of town." Ciotti covered a study saving space of one. Yes, I come here often, when the house doesn't have Internet audio fidelity told us this 17-year-old says nearly once a week. He has to hike up here is the slightest whether disruption docs out there already shaky Internet. There's no mobile service in town I simulate but up here can get a little signal three day about the broader social modernism of the three bars and about online learning, prompted by the pandemic has created particular problems in this place only eased a bit by the view sucked down more about it, but we have found the beauty of life and the connection between friends. He told us that we are a little isolated, but all. Some boys would at the local Inn owner Valentina Paolini felt that isolation.

She is a landline at reception but that wasn't very helpful. Last winter when she was sleeping upstairs with just her cell phone and heard a burglar tried to call police from all corners of the room. She told us how hard was it to get a line that night on the phone. 20 minutes about the phone villages later told us there's not enough profit in this tiny town for telecom companies to invest. This is more than just an inconvenience that would also be of public safety issue hazard noise.

See that you have a civil protection plan done.

Ramon Gotti told us. For example, in December 2019. We had a seismic event.

We tried to reach residents but they were outside where there was no signal.

So we had to send out police megaphone got a hopeful millions of euros in new European Union funding aimed at closing the digital divide could help Italy. Now the battle is to find a solution. He said, and then we have the battle of fighting for the timeline is like a no offense dalliances would've said the same.

He admitted, but while the practicality of this poses a challenge place with no cell phones ringing or dinging residents told us they have found the joy of conversation in person so perhaps there better connected. After all takeout with Rachel Garrett this week Stephen Law ally of Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm monument list for me to Senate races you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed what Nevada not Georgia. Georgia is right up there with New Hampshire's products to New Hampshire people really just kind of don't like you have more from this week's conversation, follow the takeout with major Garrett on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. It's 843 acres of open space on a very crowded Manhattan Island Central Park still secrets faith saline came across one that may surprise you. Most people who walk through Central Park from Taurus to lifelong New Yorkers have no idea of the history under their feet where we are in the heart of Seneca Village. This is where the churches would be nearby. The squirrels would be in this area. In 1825, a 25-year-old African-American shoeshine or named Andrew Williams about this land, two years before slavery was abolished in New York will return to his story later more free black Americans followed fleeing the disease, and discrimination of downtown and together they created a bustling settlement of their own known as Seneca Village Seneca Village was a place of opportunity. It was a reaction to racism. Cynthia Copeland is president of the Institute for the exploration of Seneca Village history and has spent decades uncovering it story there is a chance that Seneca Village was part of the Underground Railroad. There is, and it's speculative but highly probable history has been untold and unknown until relatively recently tore his father once you get to write the stories these were people who were forgotten and it is unfortunate that the story was written for so long, but it's it's great that the story is now has emerged much of the story is an enduring mystery, but an archaeological dig unearthed hundreds of artifacts from the villagers middle-class lives. We found lots of beautiful bottles shoe that was probably the size that was used by one of the children and one of the students just started to cry.

Seneca Village was home to the largest number of African-American property owners in New York before the Civil War, and because those black men possess property the ability to vote Irish and German immigrants moved into and white and black villagers attended church side-by-side, but when New York City elites wanted to create a park that rivaled those of Europe. They were drawn to the middle of Manhattan. There was a smear to say that was created in the media got to get rid of all those people that live in the park. That shouldn't be there. They are tramp squatters and thieves is the kind of language that they use in 1853 the city used eminent domain to take control of the land. In all, about 1600 residents were displaced, including nearly 300 from Seneca Village people were not happy and they put up a fight, but to no avail. Seneca Village lasted only 32 years. Central Park was created and the rest is history, but an incomplete history. Until recently, a monument to a prominent Seneca Village family is underway in the Central Park Conservancy installed an outdoor exhibit.

This was the main water source for the village. This was a natural spring that has existed for really long time. Marie Morris is a historian for the Conservancy gives tours of the landscape rather worth here is always exist.

So I think people are really amazing that there were people living here questions. I think a lot of people have is where to go.

Who are the descendents that was the question what you go will all take on the job. Looking them up Cal Jones Manhattan Borough historian emeritus has spent thousands of hours researching the residence.

Starting with Andrew Williams shoeshine or so I can see him moving the house off the road to watch. I look Williams Seneca Village is sort of like a puzzle pellet report piece of this puzzle seizes and last year.picture became a lot clearer when someone with a familiar name heard about his quest and reached out like from the treasure Andrew Thomas Williams. The fourth is the great great great grandson of Andrew Williams. He and his wife Mariah didn't realize the connection to Seneca Village until the researcher messaged them on Facebook and suddenly the history of Seneca Village became the history of their family. My great-grandfather had a music school where he told me the whole Andrew Thomas Williams lines so much better because I truly know that connection is not to submit it gave me a sense of being in the sense of pride.

So I walk a little taller and I feel a lot stronger when they toured Seneca Village. They just had to share the news. I remember guys, we haven't been able to be descendents to clap would be like wow all we can do is honor the pack and nothing convert can ever get healed. One day Andrew Thomas Williams the fourth says he'll pass along this family heirloom to his oldest son everything within a that belonged to his great-grandfather, a precious reminder to keep telling the story. There are others out there storage is put out a whole lot more than what we believe that we know exact whole story.

While that's got to be raised when it comes fever was a huge hit for the legendary Peggy Lee back in the 50s. Morocco has the story of the singer-songwriter with the sultry voice.

Cool 519 won a Grammy for is that all there is a song that many heard as an anthem of ennui not only she saw it as Life-Affirming and Hopeful That Bad Things Are Happening and That You Can Rise above Them Stand out and All Holly Foster Wells Is Peggy Lee's Granddaughter Celebrate Life in Spite of All of This Is Peggy Lee Had A Lot to Some Great 50s. She Was Already a Legend and Artist of Astonishing Versatility, a Master of a Heartbreaker Is Trailblazer Musically.

How Many Different Peggy Lee's for Their God Doesn't Show There's Blues Things Are Swinging Their Jazz Therapy, Pop Peter Richmond Wrote a Biography of Lee Want to Do the Folks Who Live on the Hill so You Weep into That Black Coffee so You Think It's like a One Hanging out with Junkies at the Kitchen Table.

I Can Do That All Can Be Traced Back to the Plains of North Dakota and the Girl Then Named Norma Dolores Ekstrom Here in the Tiny Town of Wimbledon. What's Now the Peggy Lee Museum. Norma Spent Her High School Years. Her Mother Had Died When She Was Just for Her Father. The Town's Railroad Depot Manager Is an Alcoholic and He Really at Times Couldn't Run the Depot so She Would Have To Take over for Him Were Still Her Father Remarried a Woman Who Was Physically Abusive. Lee Later Wrote That Her Stepmother Once Beat Her over the Head with a Cast-Iron Skillet and My Grandmother.

She Said She Would Look out at the Railroad Tracks and Just on Matching Where They Lead Was a Way out.

That's What the Railroad Represented to Her and of Course Her Other Way out Was Music. We Didn't Change It.

By 17 She Was Singing on the Radio As Peggy Lee and before Long, Touring with Goodman's Band. Often the Only Woman on the Bus. She Said That These Men Always Looked out for Her under Their Wing Quality Where You Wanted to Protect the by Now Should Cultivate Style Was As Minimalist As the Landscape She Grown up Never Be.

She Had the Philosophy of Less Is More, and She Would Bring You in and Pay Attention. So for the Rest of Her Life. She Knew That the More She Could Get the Room Silent, the More She's Got. She Said That Challenges to Leave out All but the Essentials Keeping It Right There. It Was Well Touring with Benny Goodman. She Met Guitarist Dave Farber. They Married in 1943 They Had Such Chemistry Together. That Was the Love of Her Life. My Grandfather, Barbara, like Her Father Had a Drinking Problem, One That Only Got Worse As We Got Bigger and the Marriage Ended in 1951 and It Broke Her Heart by Just As She Always Has Done It Fueled Her Music. Then the 1950s Were Lee's Most Prolific and Innovative. A Rarity among Women at the Time She Was a Singer-Songwriter with 270 Songs to Her Name As a Kid Was Really Cool for You That Your Grandmother Was Part of Lady and the Tramp How My Friends Knew of Her Visa. She Cowrote the School to the Disney Classic Signs Just Darling. The Mother Hi Handsome John, She's Pegging the Dog Pound, 1958 Have Her Biggest Hit with an Arrangement All Her Own Space Drums and Finger Snaps so Much in This. The Only Thing the Signal That's to See Peggy Lee Live Was to Be Spellbound. There's a Tape of Her Singing CC Rider All I Know Exactly What Performance That Is at Basin St., East barely moves my changes will shoulder and face so and this was the living room. It was inevitable that Peggy Lee would achieve icon status. She conking up with that Bob and the glasses and it's funny because then I saw Gwen Stephani doing the same thing so probably not a coincidence now inspired its character is picking originally named Miss Piggy Lee. She thought that was his glamorous mistake he is right and she's a diva so central.

Life was glamorous. She recorded these home movies of parties at her Bel Air estate, one song spoke to her greatest unfulfilled wish.

The folks who live on the hill, that's her very favorite song and I think it just paints the picture of an idyllic relationship going altogether and always having that soulmate by her side after Dave Farber married divorced three more times before she died.

2002 think she really complicated question.

I think she had incredible moments of happiness but interspersed with incredible loss, heartbreak, disappointment, fear, fear came from. She said actually it came from growing up without what really what she thought was a home but without this hard in this pain is what resonates with people is that truth is music is outlive me. She knew that. Suffice it to say. Luke Burbank isn't taking this back to the office talk lying down with vaccination rates up and some sense of normalcy.

Returning to American life.

Many white-collar employees are being called back to the office. Of course there's still some hesitancy around that for a variety of reasons to say for the record, I am happy to return to the workplace as long as I can bring my bed when explained. Like a lot of privileged Americans have the option of working from home. I started the pandemic embracing the dream of the standing desk. I got one new with absolute certainty that emerge post coded a better stronger Luke Burbank by day I stand my workstation dazzling.

My remote colleagues with my discipline and efficiency. By night, I ride my exercise bike to know where impressing a whole different group of people with my cool pellets on spin diesel yet that was the dream, but what really happened. Well, in all honesty just about anytime a zoom camera was off. I was working from bed and I don't mean late at night dashing off the last few emails I mean like 2 PM on a Wednesday. Some people might call that low-level depression. Some people might have a point.

Still, I can't be the only one right for the record, I have always kind of been this way. If there's something hard that needs doing.

I like to be as comfortable as possible while doing it. I just think my brain functions better when the rest of my body is being cradled by a mattress that I bought off the Internet because I heard about it on the podcast society tells us we should be tracking our steps and mastering our bodies so we can absolutely crush it at life. Every locale beer commercial celebrates the impossibly for people who work hard play hard. Where's the aspirational ad for those of us who work horizontally and then get pretty drowsy.

I guess my point is in one way or another. We all did what we had to do to get through this pandemic. I wanted one of those people who made fun of the term self coming out of it is a true believer.

We don't take care of ourselves. It's pretty hard to take care of the people who need us.

At least that's what I've learned and I've also decided not to be embarrassed about my unique style of productivity.

I know there are lots of other people like me, a silent cozy majority can't wait to put their sweats on pilot their pillows just so go take on the day I am his debut acting role has critics raising she's no stranger to show business makes up one third of the rock band high with her two older sisters Anthony Mason takes note of Alana and her siblings, and her first ever acting Alana is getting a lot of attention and you don't forget the Hollywood reporter called her performance in Paul Thomas Anderson licorice pizza.

One of the most exciting screen debuts in recent memory areas for incredible crazy. I don't really know how to take it Anderson's own to LA's San Fernando Valley set in 1973. She placed 25-year-old Alana came Cooper off son of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman placer teenaged super where your parents mom worked for me question she does my public relations company, your public relations because you have yes in your act yes and your secret agent to the director wrote the part for the 30-year-old high, but it was not their first collaboration like enough to have done so many music videos of Paul that we had such incredible trust with her older sisters Danielle and Esther Alana's Grammy nominated band high. Anderson has directed eight of their videos cast Alana's sister and their parents as her family in the film the scene when Alana brings her atheist boyfriend do Shabbat dinner was drawn from real life you're ready to do a Brooklyn iron overtime pilot story and then it was it was in the spec you had a play that yeah oh yeah my dad knew how to play that's actually the same young lady you don't bring this about me thinking is like the moon loved loved loved so much fun filming reunited usually inseparable sisters been split up by covert you all are not used to not seeing each other know someone is coming for years. Canter's deli in LA has been the family hang out your own cover was right. I wish I were there behind the counter on the cover of their latest album. Women in music part three, which was nominated for a Grammy for album of the year when we play tennis for the first time in 98 or 99. All of this was business. And with their parents. They made their musical debuts here as kids in the family band rocket was in the crowd back there.

They were paid in matzoh ball soup which is still a favorite and while they each played with other bands for a time, they soon saw playing with her. I just graduated from college. Alana had just graduated from high school. Danielle wasn't touring anymore and I think collectively we were like it's now or never. In 2012. I am released their first EP our first directly outside. I walked out the door there's a line of people and after the first person when one of the fine for like to see their debut album days are gone. Went to number one in the UK number six in the US and caught the ear of Anderson Dir. unites Magnolia and punchdrunk love unknowingly already had a connection to the higher sisters was actually her student when he was around eight years old, but every time one of pop on the team. Growing up my mind like you know I taught the director of this movie.

I taught him when he was there to fingerpainting with them like them through a mutual friend. They finally met and he's like you are Ms. Rose's kids in light of that brought out a paving kept all these years like face time you really from familial know this amazing friendship and now we refuse to as the sisters were making their second album, Anderson made a short film here in Valentine recording studio even being in the spaces bring back some of the first something very well and looked and sounded like would you describe the published report is a lot of trust. We trust him implicitly.

It's all led to Hiram's big moment in licorice pizza and Alana's starring role. Westling you feel about what happened or how we feel like what I mean. The fact that like our our littlest sister is like this on screen like Jen. This star like I always knew what was in you know the music videos to Alana's always been justice like the shining beacon of light.

You really can't take your eyes off, I think you know where to get like compliments siblings affiliated.

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