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#Repost Techcrunch ・・・ Apple’s MacBook gets an upgrade today with faster processors, better graphics, faster internal memory and an hour more of battery life. Apple says this is 10 hours of web browsing or 11 hours of iTunes movie playback. You can get the new MacBooks starting at the same $1,299 price for the 1.1 GHz M3 processor or $1,599 for the 1.2 GHz M5, and all of the models now come with 8GB of RAM standard across all configurations.

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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island

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Psychologists study intense awe astronauts feel viewing Earth from space

Picture Earth at the center of a frame. The planet looks unassuming, a fleck, its blue-and-white marbling stark against a black interstellar backdrop. Yet the image likely evokes some reaction.

Now imagine seeing this view from space.

Astronauts who experience Earth from orbit often report feelings of awe and wonder, of being transformed by what they describe as the magic such a perspective brings. This phenomenon is called the “overview effect,” and researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center are studying it to better understand the emotions astronauts commonly recount.

Penn research fellows David Yaden and Johannes Eichstaedt, and intern Jonathan Iwry, with colleagues from Thomas Jefferson University, the University of Houston and others, have several goals with this work: to look at implications for space flight as the aeronautical community heads toward years-long missions to places like Mars, and to understand how to induce a similar sensation for non-astronauts.

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For Mother’s Day, give your mom the gift of a $30,000 3D-printed replica of you

If you waited until the last minute to buy a Mother’s Day gift again this year, there’s great news for you: The gift that she’ll cherish the most is a life-size, 3-D printed replica of you, and it’s available now on Groupon for the low low price of just $30,000. Wait, this is real?

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The end of reefs

Climate scientists speak of “tipping points” regarding the way the planet will respond to increasing greenhouse gases. Tipping points are “points of no return” – where the time it will take for the planet to recover is measured not in human lifetimes but in geologic time.

There are obvious examples of these. If the Greenland or Antarctic Ice Sheets were to completely collapse, it would take hundreds of thousands of years to regrow them. If large amounts of methane-bearing ice were destabilized, releasing the methane to the atmosphere and causing runaway heating (as likely happened 56 million years ago), that is another kind of tipping point.

Well I have some bad news. The 2015-2016 El Niño is a tipping point. The planet Earth is now on a path to no longer having live coral reefs.

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