Interesting Links for 12-11-2020

"My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania"

(tags:USA voting )

Dwayne Johnson is rebooting The Scorpion King

(tags:movies )

So, how is the USA managing its Covid-19 response?

(tags:USA pandemic epicfail )

Our Brains Have Two Distinct "Beauty Centres": One For Art And One For Faces

(tags:beauty faces art psychology brain neuroscience )

Being More Authentic On Social Media Could Improve Your Wellbeing (I suspect that being more authentic generally would do the trick, hiding who you are is exhausting and stressful)

(tags:psychology happiness socialmedia )

Boris Johnson picks pro-fracking Tory MP who has campaigned against wind farms as 'climate change champion'

(tags:globalwarming conservatives OhForFucksSake )

Capital gains tax: Rate should double, says government review

(tags:UK tax )

Behold! The most Irish of all films!

(tags:Ireland movies satire trailer funny )

A focus group on Trump voters finds out what they really think. (Interesting on defunding the police)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326210279387099136.html
(tags:voting usa )

COVID-19 Daily Dashboard for Scotland (broken down by neighborhood)

(tags:pandemic Scotland visualisation viaDanielDWilliam )

The Polls Weren't Great. But That's Pretty Normal.

(tags:polls USA politics )

Good statues of women

(tags:women statue )

Japanese town deploys Monster Wolf robots to deter bears

(tags:robots wolves bears )

How Brexit will make it much much harder for artists and musicians to tour in Europe

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1326554078256656389.html
(tags:music Europe UK Doom )

New project at Oxford University explores the origins of money

(tags:money prehistory research )

Politics versus policy, and why the approach of Johnson and Cummings to exercising power is going so badly

(tags:politics government UK )

There is no evidence that suicides have increased 200% under lockdown

(tags:suicide pandemic )

Will government lockdown shopping loopholes destroy the high street?

(tags:shopping UK doom )