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Researchers have found that people get nicer as they get older. This contradicts earlier studies showing that people’s personalities don’t change after around age 30, due to genetic programming.

Scientists studied 132,000 people between the ages of 21 and 60. Each one took a personality test on a website that measured conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness and extraversion. The results: conscientiousness increased throughout life and particularly during the 20’s, when people become more organized and disciplined. Agreeableness improved during the 30’s, as people become warmer, more generous and helpful.
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The magnetic North Pole is leaving Canada and will eventually wind up in Russia. Larry Newitt, of the Geological Survey of Canada, says, “Although it has been moving north or northwest for a hundred years, it is not going to continue in that direction forever. Its speed has increased considerably during the past 25 years, and it could just as easily decrease a few years from now.”

The Earth’s magnetic field comes from its outer core, and is produced by the movement of molten iron 1,850 miles below the surface. It’s also influenced by charged particles from the sun. The magnetic North Pole is different from the geographic North Pole, which is a fixed point on the planet. The magnetic pole is currently 600 miles from the geographic one.
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There have already been a record-breaking number of tornadoes in the U.S.?almost 400?and the tornado season isn’t over until July. The last record was 188 in 1999. ”It’s the longest stretch of outbreaks that I can recall,” says meteorologist Dan McCarthy. 48 people have already died, more than died in tornadoes each year between 2000 and 2002. Last year a total of 55 people were killed by tornadoes. Whitley Strieber explains how global warming is connected to the increase in tornadoes.
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A company in the U.K. has produced the world’s first inflatable church. You could blow it up and use it as a temporary place to have a wedding. It could also be handy for congregations that can’t afford a church building; they could blow it up in an empty parking lot on Sundays and deflate it the rest of the week.

It’s 47 feet high from ground to steeple, 47 feet long and 25 feet wide, has a blow-up organ, altar, pulpit, pews, candles and “stained glass” windows, and holds 60 people. The inventor, Michael Gill, says, “I wanted to launch it at the Christian Resource Center so I could get the stamp of approval of the Christian sector?It could have been easy to have upset a large part of the human race with this but the reaction so far has been absolutely phenomenal.” read more