This week on “Sunday Morning” (May 12)

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Hosted by Jane Pauley

COVER STORY: Why Product Design Sometimes Fails? It is complicated
Everywhere you look, products are getting very complicated, with more and more features aimed at attracting consumers. But designing things to do more can often lead to frustrated and dissatisfied customers. For designers, it’s a constant and complex balance to get right. Correspondent David Pogue looks at how complicated lives – full of infinite resources – may be becoming easier to navigate thanks to technology.

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ALMANAC: May 12
“Sunday Morning” recalls historical events from this date.

ARTS: No wilted flowers: see stunning paper floral arrangements
They may not have much fragrance, but they look surprisingly real and never wilt or fade. Correspondent Conor Knighton talks to artists who create pristine peonies and pansies, realistic lilacs and ridiculously large roses, using little more than paper, paint and glue.

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TV: Iain Armitage in the final season of “Young Sheldon”
Iain Armitage, star of the CBS comedy “Young Sheldon,” performed a magic trick: He helped broadcast a hit TV show for seven seasons while growing up. Luke Burbank talks to the young actor about the show’s ending; and with Jim Parsons (who created the character Sheldon Cooper on “The Big Bang Theory”) and executive producers Steve Molaro and Steve Holland about the show’s success, which surprised even them.

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STAGE: Tony nominee Sarah Paulson: ‘If this is a dream, I don’t want to wake up’
Emmy-winning actress Sarah Paulson was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in the comedy-drama “Appropriate,” about siblings separated by uncovered secrets. She talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about how her mother accommodated Paulson’s passion for acting and why she hasn’t yet watched herself in “American Crime Story:” The People vs. OJ Simpson.

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PASSAGE: In memoriam
“Sunday Morning” looks back at some of the notable figures who left us this week.

FASHION: Uniformity by designer Stan Herman
Alina Cho reports.

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HARTMAN: TBD

MOVIES: “Back to Black” director says his new film puts Amy Winehouse “back at the center of her story”
The new film “Back to Black” dramatizes the life and music of British singer Amy Winehouse, the charismatic, multi-Grammy winner whose struggle with drugs and alcohol led to her death at age 27. Correspondent Seth Doane talks to director Sam Taylor-Johnson about capturing a complex life on film; and with actress Marisa Abela, who describes how she inhabited the role of Winehouse from the inside out.

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COMMENT: Fashion is twofold at the Met Gala
Correspondent Faith Salie reports on fashion’s biggest night, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Benefit, where designs ranged from artistic flowers to expertly placed sand.

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TV: Bill Maher on not throwing a punch
Comedian Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time,” makes no distinction between right and left when he directs his barbs at tribal politics. He talks to CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa about how to cheerfully court controversy, whether by mocking politicians or inviting them on your show. He also discusses his new book, “What This Comedian Said Will Shock You.”

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COMMENT: Josh Seftel’s mother on Mother’s Day

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NATURE: Mustangs in South Dakota

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Rites of Spring (YouTube Video)
Watch stories from the “Sunday Morning” archives about the pleasures and annoyances of the season, from bird migrations, the spring thaw and baseball spring training, to gardening, spring cleaning, urban fishing in Chicago and the dreaded ” spring ahead.” [Featured: Bill Geist on the annual return of buzzards to Hinckley, Ohio (2008); a portrait of life along the Mississippi River as spring thaw commences, by Richard Threlkeld (1981); Charles Osgood on spring training with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, with baseball great Frank Howard (1998); Cynthia Bowers on professional organizers tackling spring cleaning chores (2006); Bill Geist on the Chicago tradition of urban fishing for spring smelts (1993); a gardener at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden explains to David Culhane the care of bonsai trees (1990); and Bill Geist visits the Watch Man, a Laughlin, Nevada watch salesman who must “spring forward” 20,000 timepieces for Daylight Saving Time (2000).]

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