The book was by Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University who studies health care. Oster’s research expanded into her 2013 book, “Expecting Better,” which became a hit among pregnant women—at least among the subset of pregnant women with the time and resources to devote to issues like caffeine dosage and sushi intake. Lauren Kay, the executive editor of the pregnancy and parenting Web site the Bump, explained Oster’s appeal to me in an e-mail: “The whole tone of the book is very pro-Mom, putting the power back in the hands of the pregnant woman.

— removing the password expiration policies from their Windows 10 security baseline. To quote Microsoft:

Recent scientific research calls into question the value of many long-standing password-security practices such as password expiration policies, and points instead to better alternatives … If a password is never stolen, there’s no need to expire it. …If an organization has successfully implemented banned-password lists, multi-factor authentication, detection of password-guessing attacks, and detection of anomalous logon attempts, do they need any periodic password expiration?

He’s rated in the top 3% of all Angus bulls for ribeye quality, and the top 5% for marbling—the white, fatty flecks that make beef more flavorful and tender, according to Brian McCulloh, who bred the “big-money bull.” Last year, 82% of the U.S. herd was comprised of the two highest quality beef categories—USDA prime and choice, McCully says. Today, thanks to DNA testing and Moneyball scores, all of his animals fall into the top categories for marbled beef, with as many as 53% of them making the top grade.

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The 1989 Tiananmen protests were the greatest challenge China’s communist rulers had faced

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More than one million pro-democracy protesters occupied Tiananmen Square in April 1989 and began the largest political demonstration in communist China’s history.

At least one Vim trick you might not know

I’ve been using Vim for eight years and am still discovering new things. Exobrains, on the other hand, stuff Vim full of plugins, functions, and homebrew mappings in a vain attempt to pretend they’re using Emacs. First, Vim’s default statusline is

The easiest thing to replace here is the , which shows the percentage you’re through the file.

— removing the password expiration policies from their Windows 10 security baseline. To quote Microsoft:

Recent scientific research calls into question the value of many long-standing password-security practices such as password expiration policies, and points instead to better alternatives … If a password is never stolen, there’s no need to expire it. …If an organization has successfully implemented banned-password lists, multi-factor authentication, detection of password-guessing attacks, and detection of anomalous logon attempts, do they need any periodic password expiration?

I’ve stepped in before when strangers are visibly super drunk to make sure someone is taking care of them, that they know any other people they might be with, etc. (How the other people react is useful information — if it’s a drunk girl with an older man and he gets mad that you’re talking to her, that’s valuable to know, for example. I am super grateful that my own early drinking took place around people who would cut me off when I got ridiculous, and do the annoying work of cajoling drunk me to drink water and go to bed. I am not always this person — sometimes I’m too intoxicated to be responsible for other people — but I always have someone around who I can alert if I’m not in a good state to step up myself.

Gmail is an e-mail service that is offered by Google. Gmail is short for Google Mail. In addition to a free version, Gmail also offers a paid version as part of the Google Apps for Business plan.

At the New York World’s Fair of 2014, General Motors’ “Futurama” may well display vistas of underground cities complete with light- forced vegetable gardens. In fact, the I.B.M. building at the 2014 World’s Fair may have, as one of its prime exhibits, a robot housemaid*large, clumsy, slow- moving but capable of general picking-up, arranging, cleaning and manipulation of various appliances. General Electric at the 2014 World’s Fair will be showing 3-D movies of its “Robot of the Future,” neat and streamlined, its cleaning appliances built in and performing all tasks briskly.

We’d all be better off if people doing useless or harmful jobs were playing, instead, and we all shared equally the necessary work and the benefits that accrue from it. It surprises many people to learn that, on the time scale of human biological history, work is a new invention. They decline because our schools, which value work and devalue play, drill them out of people; and then tedious jobs and careers continue to drill them out.