Life Articles
![How to be a good coworker](/media/newsufledu/images/2022/01/UF-News_good-coworker.jpg)
Make the most of your professional relationships with these 5 research-backed tips.
![Opinion: We can build homes to survive tornadoes like Kentucky suffered. We just haven’t.](/media/newsufledu/images/2022/01/Prevatt-image.jpg)
The housing industry and politicians have resisted changes that could save lives.
![Are you talking to a chatbot? Would you like to?](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/12/chatbots.png)
As AI customer service grows, here’s what businesses should consider about earning our trust.
![UF Mourns the Passing of Robert H. Grubbs, Nobel-Winning Alumnus](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/12/Grubbs-Bob-crop.jpg)
Robert H. Grubbs, a chemist and Nobel laureate who earned two degrees from the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, died Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021, at 79 years old.
![Apps show promise to help heavy drinkers age 21-25 cut back](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/12/Leeman_in_bar_lab.jpg)
A smartphone breathalyzer and blood-alcohol estimator reduced drinking — even though participants weren’t trying to drink less.
![Using baby talk with infants isn’t just cute: It could help them learn to make words](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/12/baby-talk-.jpg)
A new study suggests that when parents baby talk to their infants, they might be helping them learn to produce speech.
![Opinion: Will Shell’s oil future outlast its ocean namesakes?](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/12/UF-News_barnett.jpg)
When Royal Dutch Shell’s new chairman, Andrew Mackenzie, asks shareholders on Friday for their vote to move the global oil giant’s headquarters from the Netherlands to Britain and drop the “Royal Dutch,” he will also be asking to return the company home.
![Opinion: Supreme Court turns to science to resolve groundwater dispute between Mississippi and Tennessee](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/12/UF-News_klein.jpg)
The Mississippi v. Tennessee decision is an important judicial acknowledgement of the simple fact that surface water and groundwater are connected.
![iMuseum: The difficulty with distance learning during a pandemic](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/12/UF-News_museum.jpg)
Distance learning, once a tool seldom used in museums, ballooned into the communication medium of choice virtually overnight. UF researchers examine this transformation in new research published in the Journal of Museum Education.
!['Tis the season for wrapped playlists — how much did AI affect your listening?](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/11/UF-News_Spotify.jpg)
Social media is about to be flooded with end-of-year wrapped playlists shared with some variation of feigned embarrassment-slash-pride in an elevated, cultivated sense of musical taste.
But who is actually cultivating your music taste?
![When giving thanks, don’t forget yourself](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/11/20211112-Self-Care-Illustration-Lead-Story-550x550-JD.jpg)
While it’s well documented that gratitude toward others can improve wellbeing, two University of Florida scientists find that gratitude toward your past self also has benefits.
![October consumer sentiment tumbles signaling a continued slow economic recovery](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/11/Chart-for-Release-October-2021---resized.png)
Consumer sentiment among Floridians dropped for a third consecutive month in October to 71.3, down 3.6 points from a revised figure of 74.9 in September and down 5 points from the pandemic low recorded in April 2020.
![Raise a glass to butterflies: New beer aims to restore monarch breeding habitat](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/10/butterfly-on-reign-square.jpeg)
To restore disappearing breeding habitat for monarch butterflies, a University of Florida scientist is tapping into a surprising source: craft beer.