Institute of Learning

  Lots of these ideas are in our  handbook 'Μαθαίνω εύκολα'  2004                   Leonardo da Vinci suggested heightening the senses to enhance your life experiences. With each suggestion try also sensing the experience in 360°  in a holistic way.                                                           For example: if I say listen to a close sound and one far away, listen to sounds all around you not just in front of you; though it is harder to listen those in your back!                                             Build a richer more rewarding life experience in 2021! 1 Close your eyes to enhance your hearing Focus solely on the listening – notice every sound, close, far, loud, quiet. Listen for rhythms, beats and repetitive noises. Pick out distinct sounds like individual birdsong. Notice also the sounds come from silence and return to silence. Be aware of the gaps as much as the sounds. Listen to music with your eyes closed. Try following two separate sounds individually.

  10 December 2020 WFP Chief urges world to use its wealth to prevent famine in Nobel acceptance speech Mr. David Beasley, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme received the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to WFP in 2020. Ms. Lisa Pelletti Clark Co-President, International Peace Bureau Nobel Peace Laureate 1910 delivered the prize on behalf of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. Photo: WFP/Rein Skullerud Transcript as delivered of the speech given by UN World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley during today’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance ceremony. https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/12/1079742#:~:text=David%20Beasley%2C%20Executive%20Director%20of,awarded%20to%20WFP%20in%202020 ROME: Waking up this morning in this beautiful city of Rome, it is hard to imagine that in about 400 AD this city experienced a massive famine, it ended up killing almost 90% of its population.  Now students of history associate something else with that ancient date:  the beginning of th

     According to MERIAM WEBSTER announcement  PANDEMIC is the word for 2020.  Sometimes a single word defines an era, and it’s fitting that in this exceptional—and exceptionally difficult—year, a single word came immediately to the fore as we examined the data that determines what our Word of the Year will be. Based upon a statistical analysis of words that are looked up in extremely high numbers in our online dictionary while also showing a significant year-over-year increase in traffic, Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2020 is  pandemic . The first big spike in dictionary lookups for  pandemic  took place on February 3rd, the same day that the first COVID-19 patient in the U.S. was released from a Seattle hospital. That day,  pandemic  was looked up 1,621% more than it had been a year previous, but close inspection of the dictionary data shows that searches for the word had begun to tick up consistently starting on January 20th, the date of the first positive case in t