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		<title>Let’s celebrate ‘Failure week’ – it will be stupid if we don’t</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Flexible Thinking Forum is calling upon the public to get behind the idea of a ‘failure week’ (Feb 6th-11th) to encourage people to learn from mistakes &#8211; otherwise we will all be stupid if we fail to take advantage of it. A top girls&#8217; school,WimbledonHigh School, is planning a &#8220;failure week&#8221; over the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beat ‘Blue Monday’ &#8211; the year’s ‘most depressing day’ on January 16th – with binge happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Support is being offered to help people overcome what is labelled ‘the most depressing day of the year’ &#8211; Blue Monday on Monday January 16th – with activities to turn it into a day of ‘binge happiness’ &#8211; and also raise funds for mental health charities. The combination of general economic doom and gloom coupled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call to charities and social campaigners to get behind the Twixtmas message</title>
		<link>http://www.flexiblethinkingforum.org.uk/call-to-charities-and-social-campaigners-to-get-behind-the-twixtmas-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charities and social activists are being urged to help spread the word about the Twixtmas campaign to get everyone to use the time when they are &#8216;time rich&#8217; to do charitable and voluntary activity? The five days of Twixtmas &#8211; between the Christmas and New Year holidays represents a great chance for everyone to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The need for arts in schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cutting back on arts education is short sighted and damaging to flexible and creative thinking. A recent study reveals that 13% of schools have already cut arts, drama and music from the curriculum*, the Cultural Learning Alliance (CLA) demonstrates the impact of cultural learning on the lives of children and young people.   Amongst the findings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do we need to rebrand the working class as ‘The UnChavs’?</title>
		<link>http://www.flexiblethinkingforum.org.uk/do-we-need-to-rebrand-the-working-class-as-%e2%80%98the-unchavs%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are posing the question: ‘Do we need to rebrand the working class, with the concept of ‘The UnChavs’?’ Prompted by a holiday read of Owen Jones book Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class the author has produced a good book, yet I feel misses some key points around communication, branding and memes – hence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 flexible and creative thinking tips for responding to ‘the riots’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The riots across the UK have shown the worst – and the best of people. The film of a young man being callously mugged on the street while being injured can make you despair of humanity. Yet, the widespread responses of people positively demonstrating their reaction to mindless destruction can equally warm your heart – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 1st is Stupid Aid Day – tackle bureaucracy and growing stupidity in the world</title>
		<link>http://www.flexiblethinkingforum.org.uk/april-1st-is-stupid-aid-day-%e2%80%93-tackle-bureaucracy-and-growing-stupidity-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is getting more stupid. And there is now something you can do about it on ‘Stupid Aid Day’- appropriately on Friday April 1st-.  This is a chance for everyone to fight back against ‘the Computer says No’ moments and other examples of stupidity in the world by submitting your examples of stupid thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Monday – to mark launch of BLUE Science campaign – to fight scientific illiteracy by non-scientists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Green</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.flexiblethinkingforum.org.uk/?p=726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This year’s Blue Monday celebrations – the symbolically most depressing day of the year on Monday January 24th – is marking the launch of a new campaign, BLUE Science, to tackle the problem of scientific illiteracy by defining the problem as getting ‘science understanding of the public’. The campaign aims to encourage non-scientists to become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cardiff Airport receives Golden Lemon award for ‘Outstanding Stupidity’</title>
		<link>http://www.flexiblethinkingforum.org.uk/cardiff-airport-receives-golden-lemon-award-for-%e2%80%98outstanding-stupidity%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Golden Lemon Award for outstanding stupidity in 2010 goes to Cardiff Airport with its announcement last month for plans to charge £2 for use of trolleys as ‘improving the current service’ – for a previously free facility. The award, presented by the Flexible Thinking Forum, aims to tackle bureaucratic thinking in the community and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEC: THINKSPOT We need a new &#8216;unholiday&#8217; &#8211; Twixtmas</title>
		<link>http://www.flexiblethinkingforum.org.uk/dec-thinkspot-we-need-a-new-unholiday-twixtmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December sees the arrival of a new addition to the seasonal calendar with the Twixtmas break – the period between the Christmas and New Year holidays &#8211; being transformed into an ‘unholiday’ of binge thinking and doing to make the world a better place. A new not-for-profit web site, www.twixtmas.com aims to provide ideas, inspiration [...]]]></description>
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