March 24, 2018 – Bridge Agents

Surprise: Violence Increase in Cities Where Trump Speaks

March 24, 2018 Bridge Agents

“It appeared to be a phenomenon that’s unique to Donald Trump’s rally,” Christopher Morrison, the lead author of the study, told the New York Times on Friday. Researchers evaluated 31 campaign events held by Trump and 38 held by his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, during the general election. They found an average of 2.3 more assaults in cities on days that Trump rallies were held. There was no correlation between an increase in violence and Clinton rallies. By DonkeyHotey – Donald Trump – Caricature, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons On a normal day in 2016, US cities noted an average of 19.4 violent incidents….

Wicked witches and evil queens: why children’s books need more female villains

March 24, 2018 Bridge Agents

World Wide (Conversation) – This year, women’s history month follows what seems an unprecedented upsurge of events that revealed the widespread abuse of women in both professional and private life. So it is not surprising to also see an increased interest in the representation of gender in literature – or rather, as a recently published big data study shows, a significant under-representation of women in literature. Both female writers as well as female protagonists have been lagging behind their male counterparts for centuries. Gender inequality has naturally become a contemporary…