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The coulrophobia, the fear of clowns from science
El prefijo coulro viene del y significa 'aquel que va sobre zancos'. Esto es debido a que antiguamente los bufones y payasos solían llevar zancos. Un estudio experimental que se llevó a cabo en la Universidad de Sheffield reveló que a los niños les asusta en gran medida que las habitaciones de los hospitales estén decoradas con payasos. Según un profesor de psicología de la California State University, Northridge, a los pequeños les impresiona mucho ver un cuerpo común con una cara tan poco familiar y de rasgos distorsionados. -- News GUR - Spain (in Spanish)
Viewpoints: Does defense actually win championships?
In my sport psychology lab at California State University, Northridge, graduate student Travis Miller and I decided to test Bryant’s adage, running our own statistical analyses to see if defense does, in fact, win championships. -- Savannah Morning News - GA
UCSB Blows Out Northridge Behind 25 Points, 17 Boards From Leland King II
Leland King II tied his season-high with 25 points and added a career-high 17 rebounds to lead UC Santa Barbara to its sixth consecutive win, 75-51 over visiting Cal State Northridge on Saturday night. -- Noozhawk
UCSB stays undefeated at home, beats CSU Northridge 75-51
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - Leland King II had 25 points and a career-high 17 rebounds to help UC Santa Barbara remain tied atop the Big West Conference with a 75-51 win over CSU Northridge on Saturday night. -- Washington Times
UCSB stays undefeated at home, beats CSU Northridge 75-51
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Leland King II had 25 points and a career-high 17 rebounds to help UC Santa Barbara remain tied atop the Big West Conference with a 75-51 win over CSU Northridge on Saturday night. -- Regina Leader-Post
UCSB stays undefeated at home, beats CSU Northridge 75-51
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Leland King II had 25 points and a career-high 17 rebounds to help UC Santa Barbara remain tied atop the Big West Conference with a 75-51 win over CSU Northridge on Saturday night. -- Arizona Daily Star
Double-double trouble for Aggies at CSUN
NORTHRIDGE — All it took was a pair of double-doubles and an extra five minutes of game time to end the Aggies’ undefeated run through conference play. -- Davis Enterprise
NCAA men: Stanford breaks through, BYU wins, UCLA tops UCI
Big West: Third-ranked Hawai’i won an exhibition over the Canadian team Thompson Rivers 25-17, 25-16, 25-22 and No. 11 CSUN (6-3) won a non-league match over UC Santa Cruz 25-23, 25-19, 25-16 as the Matadors hit .481. Dimitar Kalchev led with 16 kills. -- Volleyball Magazine
Book Review: 'Beyond All Recognition' by Kenneth Eade
Kenneth Evade may be best known to readers as the author of ’Bless the Bees: The Pending Extinction of our Pollinators and What We Can Do To Stop It, and A Bee, See: Who Are Our Pollinators and Why Are They In Trouble? - two superlative books about his concern for our environment, a topic he takes to the top level in his superb books. Eade is an international business lawyer, based in Los Angeles, specializing in international law, Internet Law, appeals and complex litigation. He is a member of the Bar of California, the federal District Court for the Central District of California, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. He holds a Juris Doctor in Law from Southwestern University School of Law, and a B.A. in Liberal Studies from California State University, Northridge. He is also an accomplished filmmaker and a freelance writer for the Los Angeles Daily Journal as well as an environmentalist. -- San Francisco Review of Books
Sitting volleyball event in Del Mar a big hit: “The smiles were infectious.”
For Holloway, Paralympic sports was a way to make her whole again. Holloway was born without a fibula bone, a condition called fibular hemomilia. The condition is typically treated by either undergoing a limb-lengthening procedure or amputating the foot. Holloway’s parents opted for amputation, so the 6-foot-3 Holloway has competed against able-bodied athletes most of her life, notably as a four-year basketball athlete at Cal State Northridge, where she was a two-time recipient of the Big West Sixth Woman of the Year award. -- Volleyball Magazine