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NORTHRIDGE, CA – Saxophone legend Charles Lloyd and the Grammys' 2023 Best New Artist Samara Joy will perform at the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts this month as part of the Jazz at Naz Festival. -- Northridge-Chatsworth Patch

Co-authors of the study from UCLA Samueli’s Materials Science and Engineering Department are Zongqi Li, Dong Meng, Wenxin Yang, Xinyao Wang, Qiyu Xing, Bin Chang, Yifan Zhou, Elizabeth Zhang, Ran Zheng, Kung-Hwa Wei and Elizabeth G. Scott, who is also affiliated with Columbia University. Other co-authors are Ken Houk, a UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry professor; Ilhan Yavuz of Marmara University in Turkey; Caner Deger, who is affiliated with UCLA and Marmara University; Miroslav Peric of California State University, Northridge; as well as Minhuan Wang, Yanfeng Yin, Jiming Bian and Yantao Shi from Dalian University of Technology in China. -- EurekAlert!

Kelp has built-in environmental benefits that are even more timely in the face of our climate crisis. It can potentially absorb and sequester up to a gigaton of carbon under the right conditions. It’s a human superfood (Bood also harvests macro and bull kelp for local restaurants), and scientists are experimenting with using some type of kelp and other algae as cow feed to reduce methane emissions, according to Kerry Nickols, PhD, associate professor of biology at California State University Northridge. Compared to, say, redwood trees, kelp grows quickly under the right conditions. “It can grow up to two feet a day,” Nickols says. “There are certain systems that lend themselves better to exploitation because they grow faster, they renew faster,” adds Philippe Cousteau, an environmentalist and La Mer ambassador. If the word exploitation makes you cringe, it’s meant positively. “I’m not saying we shouldn’t be changing our consumption habits. But we need to look for alternatives that allow us to rebuild nature. The environmental movement as a whole has been historically one of negativity and deprivation. It’s been a movement of no, don’t do that, stop doing that...which has failed. How do we stop thinking about what we would like the world to be, and start accepting how the world is, and working within that system?” Cousteau says. -- Elle Magazine

T’Azane Roberson, a student at California State University, Northridge, was approaching one year of on-again, off-again dating with a co-worker when she came to a realization she would eventually announce to her followers on Twitter: “My biggest mistake in life so far was dating a man with a podcast.” -- The New York Times