Back in the day, my internet connection was so Comcastic that I couldn't watch a video on youtube, either. I'd have to cache it with youtube-dl and watch it the next day, or whenever it finished. It was weird the first time I tried to watch a video on the web page and it actually played.
I think this is a case of a word having one colloquial meaning and a different technical meaning. If you "lift" something, you're probably picking it up.
In a hydrodynamic sense, "lift" is a force on a foil moving through a fluid. This kind of lift is a force orthogonal to the direction of motion through the fluid and the surface of the foil. That could be upward lift, like that on the wings of an aircraft. That could also be the forward and leeward lift on the sail of a sailboat, or the windward lift on the sailboat's keel. It could also be the lateral, stabilizing lift on the control surfaces of a rocket.
If I'm reading the article correctly, the legal threats were from the authors of the retracted article. Dr. Lisco only sent the journal an email notifying them of the plagiarism.
Start looking for new work when your current work is burning you out. You seem to have the opposite of that problem.
Keep your current job, and start using your surplus time more effectively. Take some classes to pick up new skills and résumé candy. Contribute to some open-source project. Find somebody to mentor.
Absolutely. Between Einstein's general theory of relativity and Newton's law of universal gravitation, one is more correct and the other is more useful most of the time. Between Newton's law and HeAvY rOcK WaNt To fAlL, one is more correct and the other is more useful most of the time.
A lot of this is incredibly myopic. The author seems to think that because a tool isn't useful to him that it isn't used at all. Also, there's the repeated notion that some currently-popular new toy has "won" and forever displaced everything before it. Nothing really works that way.