Cog is an artificially intelligent computer that is trying to learn about the world. . . . Cog's mind, similarly, is just a collection of loosely coordinated digital reflexes scattered among its eight processors, with no one place to point to as the seat of intelligence. There's no there there, notes Brooks with a touch of pride.

A lot of people used to go out to the trots at Wayville. You′d see them all dressed up in their beads and bonnets and looking all flash, going off to the trots.

Meanwhile, we dogged the watch sections so that both halves of the crew could fetch full sea bags of uniforms and gear […]

Hosted by Lesley Stahl, the report interviewed Chesapeake Energy's Aubrey McClendon about the future of gas, told the story of two newly minted “shaleionaires” who lived above the shale, and questioned the Sierra Club's Michael Brune about negative environmental impacts.