21c Museum Hotels | About 21c - 1 views
Environment takes back seat for today's youth, report finds - 1 views
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Despite their green reputation, the report suggests today's young people are far less environmentally minded than previous generations.
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In fact, three times as many Millennials - those currently in high school or college - than baby boomers at the same age said they made no personal effort to help the environment: 15 per cent versus five per cent.
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xperts say the problem may be that our kids' green education has been too thorough, ingraining the notion of a dying planet to such a degree that many believe th
Cities Consider Selling Ads as Economic Lifelines - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Making Sense with Paul Solman | PBS NewsHour | PBS - 0 views
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Writer Michael J Sandel's book "What Money Shouldn't Buy" speaks to the growing "marketization" of our society. He asks strong moral questions about paying for access to fundamental parts of our society like equal representation. In this interview he does not address the marketization of arts or culture but I can see some of the warning signs he brings up. Is access to museums up for sale?
The Time Is Now to Bring the Fight to Dementia | Nicco Mele - 0 views
A Relentless Widening of Disparity in Wealth - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Professor Piketty offers early-20th-century France as an example. “France was a democracy and yet the system did not respond to an incredible concentration of wealth and an incredible level of inequality,” he said. “The elites just refused to see it. They kept claiming that the free market was going to solve everything.”It didn’t.
5 things to know about global aging | UTSanDiego.com - 0 views
The Urban Reordering: Can the United States Make it Stick? - 0 views
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The repopulating of urban areas is certainly a trend that will affect museums. But do you agree that the government should end the mortgage interest deduction because focus is shifting from suburbs to cities? Don't people who buy condos in cities benefit from the same deduction as those buying houses in the suburbs?
Causes Count - CalNonprofits - 0 views
The Sea Change in C-Suite Thinking About Gig Workers - Small Business Labs - 0 views
Quitting is just half the story: the truth behind the 'Great Resignation' | US unemploy... - 1 views
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“quits”, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls them, hit a high in September, with over 4.3 million people leaving their jobs, and was followed by a modest reduction of that trend in October and November.
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n Tuesday the labor department said there were 10.6m job openings at the end of November and 6.9 million unemployed people – 1.5 jobs per unemployed person. The number of quits hit a new high of 4.5m.
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The top reasons cited by experts continue to be lack of adequate childcare and health concerns about Covid
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The NFT Ecosystem Is a Complete Disaster - 0 views
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Vignesh Sundaresan, a collector known as “MetaKovan” who purchased the $69 million Beeple NFT that touched off one of the earliest hype cycles around the digital assets. MetaKovan is the financier of Metapurse, a Singapore-based investment firm that earlier this year listed its mission as to "democratize access and ownership to artwork." Metapurse has bought 20 Beeple NFTs, four virtual museums, a soundtrack, and consolidated it all into an "NFT bundle" that offers fractionalized ownership through 10 million B20 tokens. Beeple, as it turns out, happens to be a business partner of MetaKovan and owns 2 percent of all B20 tokens, while MetaKovan owns another 59 percent.
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a landmark October study published in Nature analyzing 6.1 million trades encompassing 4.7 million NFTs since 2017: the top ten percent of traders account for nearly 90 percent of all transactions, this group trades 97 percent of all NFTs at least once, and the greatest predictor of any NFT’s value isn’t its appearance but its previous price points.
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