Heman Bekele was inspired by Ethiopian workers laboring under the sun, and wanted to help ‘as many people as possible’

Heman Bekele was inspired by Ethiopian workers laboring under the sun, and wanted to help ‘as many people as possible’

A middle-school teen has been named “America’s top young scientist” after developing a bar of soap that could be useful in the treatment of melanoma, a skin cancer that is diagnosed in about 100,000 people in the US each year and kills approximately 8,000.

  • @Lophostemon@aussie.zoneEnglish
    -16•1 year ago

    There’s no way that dude is 14. Perhaps I’ve been staring at AI creepiness too long but that guy is easily mid 20’s.

    • Funderpants English
      33•1 year ago

      Adultificaton is a common racial bias where people see black children as older than they are, it results in a number of problems for those children.

      I have fallen for this bias, as a largely unconscious bias we all can fall for it. I think one of the things we can do is self check when it happens to us and point it out when others perpetuate it.

    • @jasondj@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      19•1 year ago

      I’m not sure how to interpret this comment.

      Are you saying you’ve been staring at a lot of AI generated children?

      Would you like to take a seat right over there?

    • @protist@mander.xyzEnglish
      15•1 year ago

      This is one reason why black children are killed by police at higher rates than other races, because they often look older than they actually are and people/police assume they’re adults when they are not

      • Funderpants English
        17•1 year ago

        Yea, adultificaton. Lots of peer reviewed papers written on it.

    • @HikingVetEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      Because prodigies can’t exist? Or is it some other less savoury preconception?