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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – 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 [...]
