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Montblanc Refills - 3 views

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S.F.'s uncommon areas: Plazas created from scraps of urban land - 1 views

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    I love this quote with "city" replaced by "museum": Yet the aspirations of a [museum] can also be measured in smaller scraps of land - the remnant spaces that often are blighted or ignored, but with imaginative design and care have the potential to be destinations.
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U.S. could save millions by changing font type, teen finds - 0 views

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    This person was thinking way outside the box! If the U.S. government stopped using Times New Roman and Century Gothic and switched to Garamond...
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Bionic eye for the blind approved in the U.S. by the FDA (Video) - Toronto Disability |... - 0 views

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    Clinical trials showed that the Argus II partially restores the sight of blind people after it is surgically implanted.
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Nielsen: Nearly Half of U.S. Mobile Subscribers Own Smartphones - John Paczkowski - Mob... - 0 views

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    Adoption rates of smartphones technology
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San Francisco Just Became the First Major U.S. City to Ban the Sale of Plasti... - 1 views

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    Impact for museum vending/concessions in the future?
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The Case Against Sharing - 0 views

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    For the past few years, the "sharing economy" has characterized itself as a revolution. Across the U.S., high costs of living are driving more of the employed toward "side hustles," i.e. unprotected freelance work, the kind fostered by the sharing economy. 
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Majority of U.S. Workers Changing Jobs Are Seeing Real Wage Gains | Pew Research Center - 0 views

  • From April 2021 to March 2022, a period in which quit rates reached post-pandemic highs, the majority of workers switching jobs (60%) saw an increase in their real earnings over the same month the previous year.
  • 2.5% of workers – about 4 million – switched jobs on average each month from January to March 2022. This share translates into an annual turnover of 30% of workers – nearly 50 million – if it is assumed that no workers change jobs more than once a year. It is higher than in 2021, when 2.3% of workers switched employers each month, on average. About a third (34%) of workers who left a job from January to March 2022 – either voluntarily or involuntarily – were with a new employer the following month.
  • rom April 2020 to March 2021, some 51% of job switchers saw an increase in real earnings over the same months the previous year. On the other hand, among workers who did not change employers, the share reporting an increase in real earnings decreased from 54% over the 2020-21 period to 47% over the 2021-22 period. Put another way, the median worker who changed employers saw real gains in earnings in both periods, while the median worker who stayed in place saw a loss during the April 2021 to March 2022 period.
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  • A new Pew Research Center survey finds that about one-in-five workers (22%) say they are very or somewhat likely to look for a new job in the next six months
  • those who describe their personal financial situation as only fair or poor are about twice as likely as those who say their finances are excellent or good to say they’d consider making a job change (29% vs. 15%).
  • About half of job switchers also change their industry or occupation in a typical month, but this share has not changed since 2019. Women who leave a job are more likely than men who leave a job to take a break from the labor force, and men with children at home are least likely to do the same.
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Across cultural lines, home schooling has boomed since COVID-19 hit - Virginia Mercury - 0 views

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    African Americans represent the fastest-growing home-schooling demographic nationwide, and Black and Hispanic families have been more likely than Whites to home-school their children during the pandemic, according to a 2020 survey by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Quantum computers are many years away from cracking crypto: MIT Tech Review - 0 views

  • Condensed matter theory physicist and quantum information expert Sankar Das Sarma has argued in MIT Technology Review that quantum computers remain a very long way away from cracking RSA-based cryptography.
  • An example of the methodology in crypto is the creation of a new wallet that generates a public address and private key.
  • Quantum security is seen as a major issue in the blockchain and crypto sector and it is widely believed that powerful quantum computers will one day become advanced enough to hack current cryptography.
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  • cracking cryptography is currently well beyond the grasp of current computing power.
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Why Fast, Cheap, and Easy Design Is Killing Your Nonprofit's Brand | Co.Exist: World ch... - 1 views

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    Interesting take on the state of marketing in non-profits and an argument for strategy.
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LA Times - More in U.S. caring for someone with health issues, study finds - 0 views

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    Caregiving is going to be a huge and expensive issue for this country to deal with in the coming years.  How can museums help?
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First Nonprofit Grocery Store in U.S. Slated to Open in Pennsylvania | PND | Foundation... - 0 views

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    Creative nonprofit financing for a needed service.  How could museums participate in such efforts.
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