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Mary Lou Henner 60 Minutes - Actress Marilu Henner, who is also known as Mary Lou Henner, appeared on the CBS show "60 Minutes" tonight to discuss her amazing memory. Marilu Henner, who is best known for hit TV series "Taxi", has a rare attribute called Superior Autobiographical Memory.Through this special quality, Marilu Henner can remember each and every day of her life. Leslie Stahl is not only interviewing people having such great ability including Marilu Henner, and Louise Owen, but also talking to scientist Dr. James McGaugh.On "60 Minutes" tonight, the entire show will be dedicated to Marilu Henner as one of only six people known to have superior autobiographical memory.On the CBS show, five of these people will be brought onscreen together for the first time to discuss their similar experiences and feelings.According to medical research, people with this memory trait have a comparatively larger than temporal lobe and caudate nucleus. Mary Lou He...

Marilu Henner 60 Minutes - Do you know someone who can remember nearly every day of his or her life? CBS’ “60 Minutes” this weekend examines what is known as superior autobiographical memory. Lesley Stahl realized that one of her friends, “Taxi” star Marilu Henner, had the ability and introduces her to others who have it. “It’s like putting in a DVD and it cues up to certain places. I am there again … seeing things visually as I would have that day,” Henner says. Marilu Henner 60 Minutes Dr. James McGaugh, a professor of neurobiology at the University of California, Irvine, tested Henner and announced that she is the sixth person known to the scientific world to have the ability. “They can do with their memories what you and I can do about yesterday … and they can do it every day,” McGaugh tells Stahl. “It could be a new chapter. … These people come and display a kind of memory we’ve never seen before, and we have to say, ‘Woo, what is that about?’ So we’re going to take a...

Mark Zuckerberg On 60 Minutes - In an upcoming TV interview on Sunday night, 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl talks to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg about a number of things, one of them being Facebook’s new user profile pages. Stahl promises in a preview video that the public would see the overhauled design for the profile pages “for the first time tonight on 60 Minutes.” “You’re showing us something that no one else has seen yet — very soon, starting tomorrow,” says Stahl in the interview preview. This suggests that Zuckerberg originally intended to unveil the new profiles on Monday instead. That’s obviously not the case, since Facebook unveiled the update itself and is now allowing users to upgrade to the new profile already. So what happened? I’ve reached out to Facebook and CBS via email to ask, but in the meantime, we can only speculate. Perhaps one factor here was that CBS’s 60 Minutes scooped itself. The video preview allowed news sites to pick up on the story about the new ...