at the students who stood on that stage to gain a sense of hope. Their projects took on issues that ranged from cancer research to climate change to suicide prevention.
“When we look at these young people, they are the future scientific leaders of this country, and they are just brilliant,” said Maya Ajmera, president and CEO of the Society for Science, which launched the competition in 1942. “They are also looking to solve the world’s most intractable problems.”As a journalist who used to cover crime in New York and Virginia and still writes about it often, I spend a lot of time thinking about the issue Ocasio’s project addresses, so it stood out.
each article for humanizing or impersonal language. She then examined that coverage across race, gender, age and the intersection of those identities, and created a “composite humanizing score.”What she found was that young Black males under the age of 18 were 30 percentage points less likely to receive humanizing coverage than their White male counterparts.
Pluck those eyebrows. Nasty.