From a world of silence to a new outlook on life. That’s the journey of a Florida boy who recently became one of the youngest ever to receive a set of artificial ears. 5-year-old Jorden Flowers of Jacksonville was born without ears or auditory nerves. Medical artists at the University of Florida College of Dentistry fashioned artificial ears for him.
You won’t have to worry about this car’s driver being distracted by a cell phone or a song on the radio. It doesn’t have a driver. The Navigator, as named by the University of Florida engineers who built it, pilots itself.
The coastline gets the attention when a hurricane’s headed for land, but University of Florida researchers are learning how to better predict where hurricanes will dump the most rain days and hundreds of miles after they come on shore.
High self-esteem really pays off, in cold hard cash. A University of Florida study finds that people with high self-esteem as teenagers and young adults draw higher salaries in middle age than those who start out less confident.