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The Association of Art Museum Directors reported in 2018 that ticket sales accounted on average for just 7% of total revenue at American art museums. Memberships contributed another 7%. The rema...

艺术博物馆馆长协会在2018年报告称，美国艺术博物馆的门票收入平均仅占总收入的7%。会员费也贡献了7%。收入的其余部分通常来自捐赠、慈善捐款、政府拨款和零售业务。 欧洲博物馆对门票费的依赖程度较低，因为它们通常得到政府的巨额补贴。这样...

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Culture. Museums. A different sort of art heist. Museums are raising their ticket prices. How high can they go? "It's almost a moral duty that museums should be free," said Glenn Lowry, director...

文艺 博物馆 别样的艺术盗窃 博物馆的门票在涨价。价格能涨到多高？ “博物馆应该免费，这几乎是一种道德责任。”纽约现代艺术博物馆馆长格伦·劳里说。这句话是在2002年说的，当时现代艺术博物馆的门票为12美元(约等于现在的19...

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Every year more than 30 million people are released from behind bars. Many leave much as they enter-in very poor health. People who end up in prison have higher rates of infections such as hiv a...

每年有3000多万人从监狱获释。许多囚犯健康状况非常糟糕，入狱时就去世了。最终入狱的囚犯易感染艾滋病毒和肝炎，还会有认知障碍、精神疾病和成瘾问题。囚犯往往会有其中一些问题，这些问题通常源于霸凌或其他创伤。不出所料，刑满释放人员比从未入狱的人...

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At the start of this year, even after six straight months of largely benign price movements, he said the Fed wanted more confidence that inflation was going lower before starting to cut rates. Such...

今年年初，即使在连续六个月基本良性的价格变动之后，美联储仍对通胀持续下行抱有更多信心，然后开始降息。美联储似乎过于谨慎，但如今看起来不无道理。 市场定价波动也改变了美联储相对于市场的定位。去年年底，投资者预计今年将有多达七次降息时，美...

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Perhaps it was always too good to be true. The big economic story of 2023 was the seemingly painless disinflation in America, with consumer-price pressures receding even as growth remained resilien...

也许经济形势总是美好得令人难以置信。2023年的重大经济问题是美国的通货紧缩，看似不痛不痒，因为经济保持韧性增长，消费者价格压力减弱，股价得以飙升。可惜的是，2024年迄今为止的经济形势并不那么乐观。经济依然强劲增长，但部分结果是通胀问题更...

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LifeScore, says Tom Gruber, a co-founder, is "literally swamped with requests" from clients including Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group. An original release is typically turn...

联合创始人汤姆·格鲁伯表示，LifeScore被索尼音乐、环球音乐集团和华纳音乐集团等客户的请求淹没，不堪重负。原始曲目通常会混几次到十几次音。但一位客户打算发布一首原创曲目的6000多个AI版本，每个版本都针对不同的市场，令人眼花缭乱。 ...

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In the dystopia of George Orwell's novel "1984", Big Brother numbs the masses with the help of a "versificator", a machine designed to automatically generate the lyrics to popular tunes, thereby riddi...

乔治·奥威尔的小说《1984》以反乌托邦世界为背景，其中的“老大哥”通过“诗化器”麻痹大众（“诗化器”是一种自动生成流行歌曲歌词的机器），从而抹杀了人类的创造力。 如今，许多人工智能（AI）模型都在大量生成粗制滥造的音乐，有些是免费的...

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The missing piece of the puzzle had been wages. Last year annual wage negotiations produced gains of 3.8%, the highest in three decades. But wage growth still trailed inflation, leaving real inc...

整个环节中缺少的一环是工资。去年，年度工资谈判产生了3.8%的工资增长，是三十年来的最高水平。但工资增长率仍然落后于通胀率，导致实际收入下降。然后就出现了上周的重磅数据。这些数据包括大幅提高日本工资中的基础部分，这一部分的工资与资历不挂钩。...