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2016 in Review: 16 LA stories that mattered this year
• The San Fernando Valley’s business landscape also changed. While the region lost a 61-year-old Macy’s in North Hollywood, the last store in Laurel Plaza, and a Jerry’s Deli on Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, the City Council also signed off on a plan for a toymaker’s new Chatsworth campus. MGA Entertainment, which sells Bratz dolls, has plans for a 24-acre development near Prairie Street and Winnetka Avenue that will include 660 market-rate apartments, retail and restaurants while relocating its Van Nuys headquarters to the site. Cal State Northridge also announced plans to develop a hotel on its campus. -- LA Daily News
Expats’ Guide to Philippine Dialects
The California State University Northridge also published “Major Languages in the Philippines” and listed down Bikol, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Kapamkampangan, Pangasinan, Tagalog, and Waray. -- Philippine Primer
Deep in Belgian caves, researchers find Neanderthals feasted on horses, reindeer — and each other
The remains were studied by an international team led by Helene Rougier, an anthropologist at California State University Northridge, who came to the conclusion that the bones were cut and broken in the same way as the bones of the reindeer and horses found at the cave’s entrance. -- Regina Leader-Post
Gruesome cave discovery reveals grisly truth of early human diets
They were found by a team led by Helene Rougier, an anthropologist at California State University Northridge in the United States. -- Daily Star
Caves prove that Neanderthals were cannibals
Now an international team led by Helene Rougier, an anthropologist at California State University Northridge in the United States, has proved from the bones found at Goyet that the Neanderthals there were cannibals. -- iafrica.com
L’homme de Néandertal était bien cannibale
À la tête d’une équipe internationale, l’anthropologue française Hélène Rougier, de la California State University Northridge, en reconstituant des os à partir de fragments épars, a réussi à prouver qu’à Goyet, l’homme de Néandertal était anthropophage. -- marco (French)
Platinum-lead nanoparticles strain to become fuel cell catalysts
Now, scientists from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and California State University-Northridge, together with scientists from Soochow University, Peking University and Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics in China, have developed just such improved catalysts. These catalysts are able to undergo 50,000 voltage cycles with a negligible decay in their catalytic activity and no apparent changes in their structure or elemental composition. As reported in a paper in Science, the catalysts comprise ‘nanoplates’ made from an atomically-ordered Pt and lead (Pb) core surrounded by a thick uniform shell of four Pt layers. -- materialstoday
Hace 40 mil años el canibalismo era una práctica común
El equipo internacional dirigido por la antropóloga francesa Hélène Rougier, de la California State University Northridge (EE.UU.), logró demostrar que en Goyet el hombre de Neandertal era antropófago. -- UNO (Spanish)
JBL at 70: This Northridge operation still knows how to throw sound
One room looks like something in a typical home, for blind studies on whether JBL’s or a competitor’s speaker sounds better. A huge “arena testing room” allows technicians to monitor how a sound system like the one at Staples Center, Dodger Stadium or the Cal State Northridge Performing Arts Center will work. -- LA Times
A dream amid uncertainty
Alvaro Castillo, 23, a Cal State Northridge student, and his cousin, Robert Castillo, 23, a student at Santa Ana College, will visit their grandmother in Nayarit. Alvaro Castillo, on his second trip to Mexico, said he hopes to absorb more this time around. -- The Orange County Register