Professional social situations can be awkward.

The rules are slightly different from standard social settings, yet business schools rarely discuss professional etiquette topics.

In her new book "The Essentials Of Business Etiquette," Barbara Pachter writes about the specific skills professionals need to understand when presenting themselves in a business setting.

From how to introduce yourself to what to order at restaurants, these are the social rules you need to know when establishing relationships.

Pachter has given us permission to use these excerpts from her book.

Always say your full name.

In a business situation, you should use your full name, but you should also pay attention to how others want to be introduced.

If your name is too long or difficult to pronounce, Pachter says you should consider changing or shortening it. Or you should consider writing down the pronunciation of your name on a business card and giving it to others.

Source: "The Essentials Of Business Etiquette"

Always stand when you're being introduced to someone.

"Standing helps establish your presence. You make it easy for others to ignore you if you don’t stand. If you are caught off guard and cannot rise, you should lean forward to indicate that you would stand, if you could."

Source: "The Essentials Of Business Etiquette"

Only say "thank you" once or twice during a conversation.

"You need to say it only once or twice within a conversation. Otherwise, you may dilute its impact and possibly make yourself seem somewhat helpless and needy."

Source: "The Essentials Of Business Etiquette"

Shark Week!

Discovery Channel's wildly popular television series about one of the oceans' most powerful predators returns on Sunday, August 4, for its 26th season.

You can check out this year's episode lineup here.

In the meantime, enjoy these shark-y photos to get you even more pumped for the Shark Week premiere.

Veteran "Shark Week" filmmaker Jeff Kurr and crew capture Great White Sharks on camera in New Zealand.

Photographer Andrew Casagrande gets close to clamping a fin cam onto a Great White.

A Great White is seen up-close in New Zealand.

This special Sharkcam locks onto the signal emitted from a shark's tag and tracks its every move.

A large Great White shark cruises past the underwater cameraman at Guadalupe Island off the coast of Mexico.

SEE ALSO: Maine's Top Chef Shows Us The Right Way To Steam And Eat A Lobster

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The 2013 World Aquatic Championships are currently being held in Barcelona, Spain and one of the more visually stunning events is one that is not even held in the Olympics, the high diving.

The event involves dives from a platform more than 2.5 times highers than the platform dives seen during the summer Olympics.

Because of the height, the event is popular among cliff divers and this year's event included 15 competitors that are also cliff divers.

Barcelona and the Sagrada Familia church make for a gorgeous backdrop

In the other direction, the background was a scenic marina

The diving platform is 27 meters high,or about the height of an eight-story building

Vanity Fair just released their annual International Best Dressed List for 2013, and needless to say the fashion industry is abuzz with the top picks.

Making the cut this year were 15 solo guys (there were also couples on the list) who shined just as brightly as their female counterparts.

Some were obvious choices like Justin Timberlake, while others took us a bit off guard, such as CEO of Ferrari Luca Cordero di Montezemolo.

Our British friends dominated, with seven of the 15 solo gents hailing from Great Britain. There was also a vast mix of professions: Entertainers, a human rights activist, athletes, CEOs, models — even a so-called "master of foxhounds."

You can check out the full best dressed list gallery over at Vanity Fair >

Miami Heat basketball player, Lebron James

English musician, Keith Richards

American entertainer, Justin Timberlake

Advancements in pulling oil out of shale changed North Dakota forever in 2008, and no place is that change more evident than the city of Williston.

Like a modern-day gold rush, workers have flocked to Williston for work and paychecks that can't be found anyplace else in the U.S. The hours on the job here ensure that even a modest hourly wage can bring in $100,000 a year doing anything from working a rig to driving a truck.

But this economic largesse comes with a cost as the population has doubled in size since 2010, residents have been forced from their homes by doubling rents, and a transient workforce shifts the city's focus.

When Business Insider went to Williston in March of 2012 the city had accepted the challenge before it, and the amount of work it would take to grow. The following photos show Williston's progress since our visit last year.

Williston, North Dakota has gone from a conservative farming community to the epicenter of a 21st century oil boom in just a handful of years.

When Business Insider was in Williston in early 2012, Lonnie's Roadhouse Cafe was still where locals and over-the-road truckers alike gathered for breakfast and news of the day.

The diner is where locals go to talk about what has happened to their town since technology thrust it onto the forefront of America's oil shale boom.

Many American industries are still in flux following the financial crisis.

In a new report, IBISWorld has identified ten of America's riskiest industries.

These industries do offer growth opportunities for investors, but are largely expected to decline the most between now and 2018. 

We drew on the report to highlight both the risks and opportunities in each of the industries. We also highlighted the average annual revenue growth or decline for each of these industries over the next five years.

Recordable media manufacturing

2013 revenue: $3.87 billion

2018 revenue: $3.16 billion

There's a growing shift to digital media and online streaming which has hurt the recordable manufacturing industry. The risk level for this industry is 'very high' and revenue is expected to fall at an average annual rate of 3.9% over the next five years.

"Providing some light at the end of the tunnel is the film industry. Movie studios earn a significant profit on disc sales and, in turn, are working to popularize new formats. In particular, 3-D films require large data files that cannot be easily streamed through the internet."

Source: IBISWorld

Appliance repair

2013 revenue: $3.67 billion

2018 revenue: $3.40 billion

The appliance repair industry faces its biggest competition from manufacturers that have warranties that cover repairs. Moreover, the lifespan of appliances is increasing as technology improve. The risk level for this industry is 'very high' and revenue is expected to fall at an average annual rate of 1.5% over the next five years.

But there are opportunities in the industry as "prices for appliances are forecast to outpace disposable income growth."

Source: IBISWorld

Leather tanning and finishing

2013 revenue: $1.84 billion

2018 revenue: $1.66 billion

"The primary factors affecting risk for US tanners are revenue volatility and high import activity. Low disposable incomes during the recession pushed consumers to reduce their spending, which flowed on as lower demand for leather goods."

The risk level for this industry is 'high' and revenue is expected to fall at an average annual rate of 1.9% over the next five years.

Source: IBISWorld

Notorious real estate addicts Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are once again selling a property, this time a lovely equestrian spread in the Hidden Valley area of Thousand Oaks.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the 26-acre California estate has just gone back up for sale this week for $10.995 million. The couple previously bought the ranch back in 2009 for $8.5 million, and listed it in 2011 for $16.5 million before lowering the price and eventually taking it off the market.

But now after a recent April feature in ELLE DECOR, it seems they've decided to try their luck one more time.

Described to ELLE as Portia's "dream home," the contemporary farmhouse-style estate is near the Santa Monica Mountains, and has two barns, a "yoga pavilion," stables, and a tennis court.

The 26-acre equestrian property is made up of eight farmhouse cottages and two barns.

Source: Sotheby's International Realty

In this converted "art barn," Ellen hung an 18th-century Spanish wood ring.

Source: ELLE DECOR

The 17th, 18th, and early-20th century decor lends a polished, yet rustic charm to the beamed ceilings and white-washed walls.

Source: ELLE DECOR

"Zepto" is a math term for the very tiny number 10^-21, but for fraternal twins Semyon and Efim Voinov, it would become the name of their game company.

"We were a very, very small lab – just the two of us – so the name 'ZeptoLab' made sense," Efim told us.

"It also sounded cool," said Semyon.

ZeptoLab first made waves in 2010 with the release of its game Parachute Ninja, which was met in Apple's App Store with modest success. In an effort to continue riding that success, the brothers got to work on the game that would become a resounding hit, Cut The Rope.

Click here to take a tour of ZeptoLab's offices >

"We had a physics engine for making ropes that we didn't use for Parachute Ninja, so we knew the next project needed ropes," said Semyon. He handled the artwork while Efim wrote the code. They hired a freelancer to create music and design some levels. Before they knew it, they were submitting Cut The Rope to Apple and it was live in the App Store.

"We checked the charts every 30 minutes," said Efim. "We entered in the two hundreds, but two days later we had the top position in the paid charts. The lite version had the top position in the free charts and Cut The Rope was the highest grossing game in 50 different countries. It was completely unexpected."

"It felt absolutely unreal," added Semyon. "It was stressful. We weren't celebrating. How long would it last? A day? A week? A month?"

In order to stay on top, they knew they needed keep investing in the game to figure out how to handle all this new opportunity. The brothers brought a CEO on board to help. They found office space, hired employees, began work on an Android version of the game, and started an update to the iOS version.

Now ZeptoLab boasts over 60 employees, a number of games based on the original Cut The Rope (Cut The Rope Experiments, Cut The Rope Time Travel), comics, boardgames, and more. It seems like their success is lasting a bit more than a day, week, or month.

The ZeptoLab team was kind enough to invite us to their Moscow offices to show us where ropes are cut and games are designed.

Welcome to ZeptoLab!

Employees skateboard through Moscow for their commute and stash their wheels right inside the front door.

This window is full of bubbly water and overlooks one of the main office spaces.

College campuses have spurred a lot of startups over the years.

Facebook famously started at Harvard, Google started at Stanford, and Snapchat was founded by Stanford frat guys. 

Some programs, like the Thiel Foundation, encourage students to drop out of school to start a company.

But some students are sticking it out and building startups while enrolled in college. 

GymFlow wants to help you beat the crowds at the gym.

University of Southern California 

GymFlow is part of USC's Viterbi Startup Garage. It helps people determine before they show up to the gym just how crowded it will be. 

It works by tapping into gym's IT center to provide real-time traffic data. GymFlow also uses that information to predict how crowded the gym will be in the future. 

Planana helps event planners know how many people are actually going to show up.

University of Southern California

Planana aims to make events flake-proof. It provides event organizers with a flake rating so they can better gauge just how many people are actually going to show up. 

Fei Xiao and Anna Sergeeva founded the company trueRSVP in 2011. Planana is a spin off that offers of variety of other services to event planners. 

Planana's clients include Saks Fifth Avenue, AlwaysOn, and DEMO. 

CentriCycle makes medical tests possible in places without access to health services.

University of Michigan 

Carolyn Yarina founded startup CentriCycle to make medical tests possible in the developing world. 

She's created a manually powered and sustainable centrifuge so health workers can prepare bodily fluids for diagnostic tests. 

Apple products have always been known for their quality design and attention to detail.

Many of these details go unnoticed by the average Apple user, or are only useful to a relative handful of people using the product.

Some features are handy while others are purely cosmetic.

But Apple included them anyway.

Here are the best of these little design flourishes.

Smart fan: When engaging the voice dictation feature on new Mac laptops, Apple automatically slows the internal fan speed to better hear your voice.

Thanks Johnbonbobon!

A 'breathing' sleep light: Apple has a patent dating back to 2002 for a "Breathing Status LED Indicator." Apple has a patent on the "blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator [that] mimics the rhythm of breathing which is psychologically appealing."

Source: FloodMagazine , Via: Nua-667

Virtual reflections: If you pull up your iPhone's Music app and start playing a song, take a look at the shiny knob on the volume slider. The 'reflection' on the knob subtly changes as you tilt your phone.

When you're raking in millions — or billions — of dollars each year, it's not an exaggeration to say that any home on the market is within your reach.

We're talking multi-acre estates in the Hamptons, triplexes in the wealthiest buildings in Manhattan, and massive dream homes from coast to coast.

We found the 25 most expensive homes in the U.S. owned by the kings of finance. To estimate the approximate current value of the homes, we looked at recent sales and public assessors' records, and spoke to expert realtors and appraisers in these homes' markets.

#25 Jim Chanos' historic triplex

Estimated value: $23.1 million

Title: President and Founder, Kynikos

The hedge funder bought his 7,700 square foot triplex condo for $20 million in 2008. The fourteen-room penthouse in the historic Stuart Duncan House overlooks Central Park and has perfect views from the massive terrace. You may recognize Chanos' neighborhood from the '90s TV show "The Nanny," as the neighboring building at 7 East 75th Street was used for exterior shots of the Sheffield home.

"The going square foot price for a property of this quality and size today is between $3,000 to $4,000 per square foot," said Patricia Cliff, a licensed associate real estate broker at Corcoran and author of The Art of Selling Real Estate, which would put the value of the home at around $23.1 million.

"Although it would be very difficult to estimate the present value because of the uniqueness of the property," she added.

To estimate the approximate current value of the homes, we looked at recent sales and public assessors' records, and we spoke to expert realtors and appraisers in these homes' markets.

#24 Joseph Baratta's new Upper East side townhouse

Estimated value: $26 million

Title: Global Head of Private Equity, Blackstone Group

At the end of last year Baratta was in contract to buy the Upper East Side townhouse for $26 million from music mogul (and Tory Burch's boyfriend) Lyor Cohen, according to the New York Post. The six-story building off Fifth Avenue is 25 feet wide, with an 1892 Cass Gilbert facade and six bedrooms, an elevator, patio, and eat-in kitchen that opens out onto the garden.

The master bedroom suite takes up a whole floor by itself, adorned with a planted terrace and overlooking the beautiful Central Park reservoir.

To estimate the approximate current value of the homes, we looked at recent sales and public assessors' records, and we spoke to expert realtors and appraisers in these homes' markets.

#23 Marco Birch's Shelter Island getaway

Estimated value: $28.5 million

Title: Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager, Moore Capital Management

Earlier this year, Birch put his exquisite, 23,000-square-foot Shelter Island mansion up for sale, asking $28.5 million. The home, which is accessible by sea plane, has 10 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, a heated pool, three-car garage, deck spa, tennis and squash courts, and a 100-foot dock.

But the basement of the home is where the action is, with a gym, sauna, eat-in wine cellar, home theater and nightclub. The nightclub also includes what Curbed called a "stripper pole" in the basement, though a spokesperson for the home has said that the basement has never been used as a strip club.

To estimate the approximate current value of the homes, we looked at recent sales and public assessors' records, and we spoke to expert realtors and appraisers in these homes' markets.

We’ve seen all sorts of finance-based top 10 cities lists that either state the obvious or seem oblivious. No doubt you’ve seen them, too, and perhaps rolled your eyes: the 10 best places to get a job, own a home, start a family, hit the lottery … and of course, to buy and raise boa constrictors.

Now, it’s time for a list that really matters —especially to our under 30 readers. We present to you our first-ever “Best Cities in America to be Young, Broke and Single.”

How does a city make the cut, you might wonder? We compiled our roll call using metrics that matter to young professionals trying to simultaneously launch a career, find love, and stretch a still-meager paycheck: cheap food, cheap beer and cheap thrills, for starters. We looked at a city’s number of bars (after downing a microbrew, of course). Then we hit the lows (unemployment, cost of living) and the highs (numbers of fellow singles and young(er) adults, ages 18-44).

10: Oklahoma City, Okla.

Too often, this neck of the woods only makes headlines for its twisters and NBA franchise. Still, the University of Oklahoma rests just a stone’s throw away in Norman. And if you love warm weather, the average yearly temperature is 72, with an average high of 50 in January. (Of course, the occasional tornado is the tradeoff.) The local population of 580,000 has grown by 10 percent or more for three consecutive census periods, too. Clearly, something’s happening that’s attracting the young, broke and single — YBS for short.

Jobbing it: Employment prospects are good in the local mainstays, the federal government and the energy industry. (Oil derricks even dot the capitol grounds.) But Oklahoma City also has a growing info-tech sector that attracts young workers.

Did you know: The first-ever parking meter was installed here in 1935. So that’s what got the whole parking meter mess in Chicago started.

9: Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Wash.

As that college-rock hero of yesteryear Robyn Hitchcock once sang, “Viva! Sea-Tac.” Home of the Space Needle, Microsoft, Jimi Hendrix and grunge rock, Seattle and its environs have low rents, superb scenery and hundreds of web startup wheeler-dealers hoping to follow in Bill Gates’ footsteps. It’s a also a smiley-face place, as the famous Happy Face logo was designed by a Seattle ad agency in 1966. And as you might’ve guessed for the home base of Starbucks, it’s got a healthy overabundance of coffee shops, where the price of a mocha can buy you some telecommuting “office space” for an afternoon.

Jobbing it: No matter how hard Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tries to shipwreck his company, the software juggernaut is still hiring, and Seattle has become the focal point of an entrepreneurial/high-tech triangle that includes Portland, Ore., and Bend, Ore., to the south.

Did you know:  Although Seattle has a reputation for being rainy, that’s more a myth perpetuated by the locals who want to keep the kooks out. In fact, Seattle sells more sunglasses per year than any other major city in nation.

8: Des Moines-West Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines (a French phrase meaning “of the monks”) has its quirky charm. It’s the home of this year’s American Oatmeal Association national convention, and the place where Ozzy Osbourne bit off a bat’s head in concert. But for the YBS, this city of 580,000 is a serious place to settle down. 

Forbes magazine ranked Des Moines as the “Best Place for Business” in 2010 and,  no. 1 among “America’s Best Cities for Young Professionals” in 2011. As Forbes staffer Morgan Brennan writes, “Des Moines boasts a low 5.8 percent unemployment rate (sixth lowest of the 100 cities we studied) and healthy projected job growth rates of 0.97 percent  in 2011 and 2.86 percent in 2012.”

Jobbing it: Des Moines is a major center for the insurance industry and also has a sizable financial services base. Aviva USA (a top insurance firm with 33,000 agents) and the Principal Financial Group are among the big companies headquartered there.

Did you know: Des Moines is boring, you say? How wrong you are, and here’s proof: desmoinesisnotboring.com. Aside from covering events and nightlife, it includes some definitely-not-boring bloggers, including Annick Sjobakken, who writes with flair about everything from dodging rats (in NYC, not Des Moines) to her Grandma Pat.

We all have some book that we love so much that we keep re-reading—that resonates with us for years to come after we finish it.

The editors and reporters at Business Insider selected the books that changed our lives in some way, whether it made us re-evaluate something, think deeply about something of importance, or it left a lasting impact—even if that was just to make us laugh or cry.

From nonfiction books that taught us how to manage finances or study in school to novels that altered our views on life, here are the books that changed our lives.

Gus Lubin (Deputy Editor): "The Myth Of Sisyphus: And Other Essays" by Albert Camus

"I was having an existential crisis after my freshman year of college, when I came across an old paperback of 'The Myth Of Sisyphus and Other Essays' by Albert Camus. The book argues that although the world is bleak and meaningless, we shouldn't give up. The modern hero lives a good life in the face of the absurd. For a 19-year-old English major, it was a useful pep talk."

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Linette Lopez (Finance Editor): "Why I Write" by George Orwell

"It's a perfect meditation on modern collective consciousness and how that impacted culture, society and politics during one of the most critical parts in human history, the years between the first and second world wars."

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Megan Willett (Life Reporter): "How To Become A Straight-A Student" by Cal Newport

"I read it before I went to Wellesley, and it had the best hacks for studying and taking notes in class that I've ever come across. The goal is to study smarter — not longer — and to know what material is actually important to the professor. This is single-handedly the reason I graduated with honors, and I will give it to my children someday."

Buy this book here >

Oregon unveiled its new football facility yesterday, and the college football world was floored.

It cost $68 million to build and puts every other college program to shame.

Sports Illustrated did a video tour of the facility, and we grabbed screenshots of the most extravagant features and details.

Unreal.

The "War Room" where coaches meet

The players' lounge is basically a game room

There are six videogame consoles with big screen TVs

Only a small percentage of shark species are considered dangerous to humans. In fact, more people die from bees, wasps, and snakes each year than sharks, according to the International Shark Attack file.

But run-ins between humans and sharks do happen — whether by accident or provoked.

Discovery Channel's "Shark Week," which premieres Sunday, August 4, provides riveting accounts of swimmers who came face-to-face with one of the oceans' greatest predators.

All of them lived to tell their stories, but not without injuries.

Heather Boswell was 19 years old when she was attacked by a Great White Shark while swimming off the coast of Chile.

Watch more Shark Week clips here »

Boswell, who was working on a research ship, was taking a break with some of her crew members when the shark grabbed both of her legs and pulled her under the water. The horrifying scene was all captured on home video.

Watch more Shark Week clips here »

Boswell's colleagues sprung into action. One person grabbed her arms while another beat the shark with a stick.

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China is slowing significantly as its policymakers try to rebalance the economy as one driven by consumption rather than exports.

This is taking a toll on its manufacturing sector.

Earlier today, the HSBC PMI survey confirmed that manufacturing was indeed contracting.

But China's manufacturing sector is still gargantuan.

Earlier this year, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's David Cui published a report titled Not So Trivial Facts, which provides some stunning facts about the amount that China produces.

NOTE: A version of this article was first published in February.

China produces nearly 17 times as many air conditioners per person than the rest of the world.

Chinese air conditioner production:
109.0 million units

China as a percent of global total:
80.0 percent

China produces 81.1 air conditioner units per 1000 people, compared with 4.8 air conditioner units in the rest of the world.

Source: BAML

China manufactures more than 40 times as many personal computers per person than the rest of the world.

Chinese PC production:
320.4 million units

China as a percent of global total:
90.6 percent

China produces 238.3 PC units per 1,000 people compared with 5.9 units in the rest of the world.

Source: BAML

China makes more than 16 times as many energy saving lamps per person than the rest of the world.

Chinese energy saving lamps production:
4.3 billion

China as a percent of global total:
80.0 percent

China's got 3.2 lamps per capita, compared to 0.2 in per capita in the rest of the world.

Source: BAML

Motorola officially unveiled its newest flagship phone, the Moto X, today. 

This is the first phone that Motorola has made under the guidance of Google. (Google completed its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola last year, but runs Motorola as a separate hardware company.)

We have a full rundown of all the nitty gritty Moto X details here, but we also pulled out a few of the coolest, most important features for you in the gallery below.

This is the Moto X. It has a 4.7-inch screen, but it's body is actually about the same size as the iPhone 5.

The back has a pleasant rubbery feel. It's not cheap and plasticky like many other Android phones.

The phone has a curved backing so it fits naturally in your hand.

Yesterday, Vanity Fair came out with its annual International Best Dressed List for 2013. Making this year's cut were three very well-heeled brothers — Otis, Isaac, and Tara Ferry — known in Great Britain as the "feral Ferrys."

But they're not quite as well-known here across the pond.

So who are the Ferry brothers? Otis, Isaac, and Tara are the sons of Bryan Ferry, the famous British lead singer of Roxy Music. Their mother is Lucy Helmore, an aristocratic former model, who has since remarried nightclub tycoon Robin Birley. The Ferrys have a fourth brother named Merlin who didn't make the Vanity Fair list.

The four brothers are frequent fodder for the British tabloids thanks to their run-ins with the law, ties to gorgeous socialites and models, and forays into the music industry. They're also incredibly charming, good looking, and talented.

30-year-old Otis is the oldest of the Ferry brothers, and also the one with the longest rap sheet. His first arrest was in August 2002 when he was caught planning to plaster pro-hunting posters on the walls of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair's home at 4 AM.

His most famous incident was two years later, when he and several other men broke into the chambers of the House of Commons to protest a ban on hunting with dogs.

But the biggest legal trouble for Otis came when he was locked up for four months in a Category B prison after being arrested for robbery, common assault, and alleged witness tampering in 2007. Ferry told The Telegraph he intervened in a fight between three pro-hunting and anti-hunting supporters, and took a video camera from the scene that documented the incident.

One of the anti-hunting supporters, however, claimed he had fought her for the camera and she was left injured, The Telegraph reported.

After his release, a judge later described Ferry's custody as "nonsensical and farcical,"according to the Telegraph. He was released on bail after four months and eventually pleaded down to a public order offense and paid a $685 fine. 

Otis now lives in a two-bedroom cottage in Shropshire with 60 hunting hounds, five horses, and three pet dogs. His title as joint hunt master of the South Shropshire Hunt doesn't pay, so he makes ends meet by writing for a living and serving as a spokesperson for leather brand Noble Macmillan.

He's currently dating 22-year-old model Edie Campbell, who has been featured on the cover of British Vogue, and is the face of Marc Jacobs, Jil Sander, and Lanvin.

28-year-old Isaac is known for partying in London, and has been attached romantically to Sienna Miller, British models, and even his father's now-wife Amanda Sheppard, a 30-year-old former party planner.

He's a music producer — including for his father's band Roxy Music — and DJs fashion parties at night, according to The Standard.

He also works as a model himself. Isaac made his modeling debut when he was 16 at a summer 2002 menswear show for Christian Dior in Paris, and even worked with Kate Moss in a Burberry campaign. Most recently he was a spokesperson for MR PORTER.

Though he's never been arrested, Isaac was expelled from the prestigious Eton boarding school in 2002 after allegedly sending an abusive email to an anti-hunt campaigner, according to Express.

According to insiders, he's also a talented graphic design artist and a good tennis player.

23-year-old Tara is also a model like his older brother, having posed for big brands like Burberry and Lanvin.

A graduate of the Chelsea College of Art and Design, he's a drummer for the band Rubber Kiss Goodbye, and sometimes drums in his father's band Roxy Music as well.

His most tabloid-y incident occurred in 2004 when he was suspended from Bryanston School in Dorset after allegedly being caught with marijuana.

All-in-all, he's the most tame of the four brothers.

The baby of the clan, 22-year-old Merlin may not have made Vanity Fair's best dressed list this year, but he is making headlines.

The youngest Ferry just narrowly avoided jail after being caught carrying a knife for the second time, according to The Daily Mail (For the time being, he was given 100 hours of community service and told to pay a $760 fine.)

Merlin was allegedly carrying the knife when police searched his car for drugs, and reportedly mouthed off to the cops, telling them to go away and "investigate real crime," as well as "you can just unarrest me now," according to The Daily Mail.

Merlin is a guitar player for the band Voltrob, and even played on one of his father's tracks for the 2010 album Olympia.

He's currently at Manchester University, and spent his gap year traveling around America. He says he eventually wants to go back to New York and make films for a living, according to The Standard.

With their recent Vanity Fair title as some of the world's best-dressed men, here's to hoping the Ferry brothers won't be settling down anytime soon.

DON'T MISS: Meet The Best-Dressed Men In The World

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Some people are born brilliant, lucky, or both. The rest of us have to work a little harder.

In his latest best-seller, "Mastery," author Robert Greene analyzes great figures from history, interviews contemporary leaders, and draws from years of psychology research to distill steps anyone can follow to become a master.

His other books discuss the strategies of power, seduction, war, and 50 Cent.

With permission from the author, we've highlighted some tips for mastering your destiny.

STEP 1: FIND YOUR LIFE'S TASK

Many people have an intense feeling about what they do best. Too often, they're driven away from it by other people. The first step is to trust yourself and aim your career path at what's unique about you.

Leonardo Da Vinci didn't come into his own as an artist alone, but when he followed his childhood curiosity about everything, he became an advisor and expert in subjects from architecture to anatomy. 

Source: Robert Greene's "Mastery"

Rather than compete in a crowded field, find a niche where you can dominate.

Legendary neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran was once a restless and dissatisfied professor of Psychology. What was supposed to be a calling felt like a job. When he began the study of phantom limbs and anomalous brain disorders, he found questions about the brain and consciousness that fascinate him to this day. 

Find your perfect niche, and stand out. 

Source: Robert Greene's "Mastery"

Rebel against the wrong path, and use that anger as motivation.

Mozart was a child prodigy on the piano. At a very young age, his domineering father toured Europe with him. When he discovered a talent for unique composition, his father suppressed it. It wasn't until he rejected his father entirely that he became a master.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval. 

Source: Robert Greene's "Mastery"

Red Bull's action and adventure sports photography competition is well underway, and the images submitted this year were truly unreal.

The photo contest, called the Red Bull Illume Image Quest, has been held twice before, and is one of the world's only international photography competitions dedicated solely to action and adventure sports. 

Of the thousands of images that were submitted, 250 were shortlisted and sent to a panel of judges.

In August, the top 50 finalists will be invited to Hong Kong, where the winners will be announced. Once the winning photos have been chosen, they will become part of a traveling, stand-alone, nighttime-only photo exhibit that will make its way around the world.

We picked 20 of the 250 shortlisted images that we thought were truly unreal. You can see the complete shortlist here. 

Jorge Ferzuli flies like a bird in Athens, Greece (Photographed by: Samo Vidic).

Hubert Schober and Kedley Oliveti take the plunge in Zakynthos, Greece (Photographed by Dimitrios Kontizas).

Todor Spasov falls through the air at Vila Franca do Campo in Azores, Portugal (Photographed by Romina Amato).