Good looks hinder job hunt?
长相出众求职也遭歧视?
Researchers have found one area that being pretty makes life a challenge - securing yourself a boring, low paying job. Researchers carried out four experiments involving more than 750 participants. Participants were shown profiles of two potential job candidates that included photos, one attractive and one unattractive. Participants were then asked a series of questions designed to measure their perceptions of the job candidates and whether they would hire these candidates for a less-than-desirable job. The less desirable jobs included a warehouse worker, housekeeper, customer service representative and the more desirable jobs included things like a manager, project director and IT internship. In all experiments, participants were significantly less likely to hire the attractive candidate for the less desirable job and more likely to hire the attractive candidate for the more desirable job. The research suggests the established view that attractive candidates are favored when applying for jobs might be limited to high-level.
研究人员发现，颜值高的人在应聘一份枯燥乏味的低薪工作时也会因此遭到人生挑战。研究人员对750多名参与者进行了四组实验。研究人员给参与者展示两份带有照片的求职者简历，其中一张长相出众，而另一张则其貌不扬。随后，研究人员向参与者提出一系列问题，来衡量他们对求职者的看法，以及他们是否会聘用这些求职者来做一份不太理想的工作。不太理想的工作包括仓库工人、管家、客服代表，更理想的工作包括经理、项目经理、IT实习生等。在所有实验中，参与者都明显更不愿雇佣颜值高的求职者从事不太理想的工作，而更愿意雇佣他们从事更理想的工作。这项研究表明，有吸引力的求职者在应聘工作时更受青睐这一既有看法可能仅适用于高级的工作。
>Renters down on dream home
半数欧洲人放弃买房梦
Nearly half of Europeans who do not own their own home have given up hope of ever doing so, with pessimism highest among Britons and Germans, the results of a survey showed. The poll by Dutch bank ING found 48% of respondents in 13 European countries who did not own their own home said they probably never would. Hopes for being able to afford to buy a home were lowest in Britain and Germany, where about 56% of non-homeowners in both countries believed they would never be able to buy. House prices have long been out of reach for many in Britain and even with uncertainty over Brexit, data showed prices picking up speed last month. In Germany, though relatively cheap compared with other European countries in the past, house prices have risen sharply in recent years, partly as record low European Central Bank rates have encouraged households to take on debt. Average real estate prices in cities including Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Frankfurt have increased by more than 60% since 2010, the Bundesbank estimated.
一项调查结果显示，欧洲近半数无房一族已对买房不抱希望，其中以英国人和德国人最为悲观。荷兰银行ING进行的调查发现，在13个欧洲国家的无房受访者中，有48%的人称他们或许永远不会有房。英国人和德国人对自己能买得起房子最没信心，这两国约56%的无房民众认为自己永远没能力买房。对许多英国人来说，房价早已遥不可及。数据显示，即使脱欧带来了不确定性，上个月房价仍在加速上涨。在德国，虽然过去该国房价相较其他欧洲国家相对便宜，但近年来却大幅上涨，欧洲央行创纪录的低利率鼓励家庭举债是造成这种情况的部分原因。德国央行估计，柏林、汉堡、慕尼黑和法兰克福等城市的平均房价自2010年以来已上涨超过60%。
>'Eternal disc' to be created
俄罗斯正研发'永久光盘'
Russian scientists are completing work on super-stable optical memory technology to create a disc capable of storing information for one million years under certain conditions. They created a prototype of an "eternal disc" and will conduct research and development work in 2018-2020, said Ivan Glebov, head of the Moscow-based laboratory of laser nanostructuring in glass at the Foundation for Advanced Research Projects. The new storage device is made of quartz glass. To record data, a femtosecond laser delivers extremely short and intense light pulses onto a piece of quartz. The disc is resistant to fires, radiation and electromagnetic waves. The disc will be capable of storing up to 1 TB of data in the future. Presently, the researchers are striving for 25 GB/disc data capacity.
俄罗斯科学家即将完成超级稳定的光存储技术的研发工作，以创造一种在特定条件下能将数据存储100万年的光盘。位于莫斯科的先进研究项目基金会激光纳米结构玻璃实验室主任伊万•格列博夫表示，他们制造出了"永久光盘"的原型，并将在2018-2020年开展研发工作。这种新型存储设备由石英玻璃制成。飞秒激光器将极短且强的光脉冲传送到一片石英上以刻录数据。该光盘耐火、防辐射还防电磁波。未来，该光盘将可存储高达1TB的数据。目前，研究人员力争使每个光盘的数据容量达到25GB。
>Artist paints photos
韩画家画作逼真赛照片
South Korean artist Kim Young-sung has a very special talent, he can paint photographs. That may sound like a gross exaggeration, but just take a look at what he's able to produce with a paintbrush, some acrylic and mountains of talent and patience. You can stare at his incredibly detailed painting for hours and still not be able to tell them apart from high-resolution digital photographs. Kim is so good at what he does that, sometimes, he himself has trouble telling his hyper-realistic paintings from the photos that inspired them. Once, he actually mistakenly sent the press the file of a photo he took, instead of the painting he did, because they looked virtually identical to the naked eye. The 43-year-old artist, who was born in Seoul, but currently lives in New York, is one of the world's most highly-regarded hyper realistic painters, earning between $10,000 and $130,000 per artwork.
韩国艺术家金暎性有一项非常特殊的才能，他能画出"照片"。虽然听起来可能有些夸张，但只要看看他用画笔、丙烯酸树脂颜料和满腹才华与耐心绘制的画作，就能说明一切。即使你盯着这些精细到令人难以置信的画作看上个把小时，仍然无法将它们与高分辨率的数码照片区别开来。金暎性太擅长这种技法，以至于有时连他自己都难以区分哪张是他的超写实画作，哪张是激发灵感的照片。有一次，他真的错将自己拍的照片文件而不是他的画作发给了媒体，因为从肉眼看来，二者几乎别无二致。现年43岁、生于首尔、但现居纽约的金暎性是世界上最受推崇的超写实画家之一。金暎性每幅画能赚1万至13万美元。
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