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A good insult is a demonstration of power. A bad insult is a demonstration of powerlessness. This is true whether youre punching up or down. (I recommend you punch up.) Pick your audience Is your goal making your enemy feel bad, orlookbad? Those require different strategies. For the first you gotta study your enemys values and self-image. Same applies online or on the job. I was working 10-hour days and tookgreatoffense to his claim, instead of delivering any number of obvious retorts....

I splurged on a brand-new pair of AirPods Pro and Ive been fiddling around with them all day. First, lets get started with the basics. (That might get annoying.) (Im surprised Off wasnt, er, on by default.) Youll find that setting under the Microphone, option, which defaults to automatic.

In June 1948, the Soviets shut the gates closed. This effort, which lasted for more than a year, came to be known as the Berlin Airlift. Lt. Gail Halvorsen was one of the many Airlift pilots dropping supplies to the starving city. He was also an amateur photographer. On his days off, he often went sightseeing in Berlin carrying his handheld movie camera. Halvorsen approached the children and chatted with them through the barrier for about an hour....

I am the 12th president of Emerson College in Boston. I taught English and American literature at Harvard and served as senior tutor at Winthrop House. I later served on the Harvard Board of Overseers and as a vice-chair of its executive committee. What are your job responsibilities? Thats a pretty good summary. Its an exceedingly tough job. But mostly, the best description would be that I am in the people business....

Britain’s first satellite, Ariel 1, rode on top of a US rocket. The combination of kerosene and hydrogen peroxide makes an amazing rocket fuel. The hydrogen peroxide molecule has two atoms of hydrogen and two atoms of oxygen. The result is a clean, smokeless exhaust. A comically simple launchpad at Woomera. Gamma engines had an impeccable service record rarely seen in rocket engine. It also carried a micrometeoroid detector, to measure the presence of very small particles....

Its a refreshing feeling, but its also a wee extreme for minor infractions. Thankfully, Facebook gives you a digital arsenal for dealing with annoying people on its platform. And we, at Lifehacker, recommend having a graduated response on social media. Heres a handy escalation chart. Like that computer from WarGames, sometimes the winning move is to not play the game at all. When someone says something that offends you, or posts something so stupid you cant help but commentdont....

Offshore banking is a thing you hear dont hear about in normal, everyday,reallife. Its for news stories about tax-evaders whogot caught. Its for this seasons plot of ofHow to Get Away With Murder. Some people choose offshore accounts for privacy, or to make international transactions easier. Others choose it to ensure economic or political stability. Maybe youre not concerned about any of those things. And were going to assume youre not trying to evade your taxes....

Yet, no one ever lives here for more than a few weeks each year. Most have been left to the staff who looks after the properties while the owners are away. Others have never been occupied. Several huge properties have fallen into ruins after lying vacant for more than 25 years. That never happened, and consequently the houses are largely unused. Another house belonged to a Kazakh businessman accused of a $6 billion banking fraud....

Im all forpretending to read books. So Ive decided to honor Blinkist by summarizing their summaries of three popular advice books, for free. Specifically seven of them. Its more effective to improve your character than to learn skills as a shortcut. Someones mother died once. Be proactive.Dont let the weather dictate your mood. Viktor Frankl was so serene in concentration camps that he inspired the guards. Blame your problems on yourself for a month....

This game is illegal. Heres abeautiful demonstrationby mathematician James Grime ofNumberphile, and magician Brian Brushwood ofScam Nation. Lets look at that chart! Say you roll the marbles, and the numbers add up to 45. Well then: youve won 5 points, and youre halfway to winning! Its a bit dizzying, but so are most games when you start out. You dont have to learn any strategy, just play the odds. So you pay a buck to play the first round....

Your home networkand everything connected to itis like a vault. In short: Youll be able to recognize the signs that something on your connection is compromised. If not, head over to ourKnow Your web link night schoolto brush up first. Start with a sheet of paper and jot down all of your connected devices. If it helps, draw a room-by-room map of your home. Then write down every gadget and where it lives....

Well, that was unexpected. What you lack in Tim Cook stuffing tiny speakers in his ears, you gain in features. Specifically, noise-cancelling capabilities, which are finally hitting Apples wireless earbuds after nearly three years of waiting. What should you do?If youre on the fence about the AirPods Pro, then wait. What makes the AirPods Pro so special, anyway? The AirPods Pro feature: A bonus microphone! (Slowly, but surely, the march to USB-C continues....

FIRE is having a moment, and its not hard to understand the appeal. Its a movement thatsquickly gaining momentum, too. What is FIRE, exactly? (Chances are, youre skeptical right now. Many FIRE enthusiasts wholeheartedly acknowledge the privilege of the FIRE movement.) Namely, its about flexibility. The movement works on a loose, non-traditional definition of what it means to be retired. Who is FIRE for? If you have a high-paying but soul-sucking job, FIRE probably sounds pretty good right now....