Two recent grads at Penn invented a special hat for premature babies that protects their hearing.  It’s a beanie that goes over their ears and filters out frequencies higher than 500 hertz. Too many hospital sounds like beeping can have lasting effects. There’s also a cool feature that lets hospital staff play prerecorded messages from the baby’s parents.

A teacher in Michigan is now a Guinness World Record holder.  90-year-old Beverly Hannett-Price teaches English at Detroit Country Day School, just outside the city.  They held a surprise assembly for her on Monday. She broke the record for “longest career as a language teacher.”  She started in 1958, over 67 years ago.  Actor Courtney B. Vance was a student and showed up.  She also taught Robin Williams and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

A 13-year-old boy in Australia is being hailed a hero after making a “superhuman” swim to save his family.  He was in a kayak, and his mom and two siblings were on paddleboards.  The wind blew them out to sea last Friday. He tried paddling back to the beach to get help, but his kayak took on water and sunk.  So then he swam for FOUR HOURS. They say…