Muinuddin Bashar

In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation. Along the way, we learn why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. We visit laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains. We discover how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. We go inside Procter & Gamble, Target superstores, Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, NFL locker rooms, and the nation’s largest hospitals and see...

T he James Webb Space Telescope has been fully deployed in Space. On January 8, the space telescope successfully deployed its primary mirror. This marked the successful end of all the crucial deployments it was supposed to undertake.  Figure 1: On January 8, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been fully deployed in Space. Webb Space Telescope is now cruising to its new home; the L2 Lagrange point 1.5 million km away. It is expected to reach there within the next couple of weeks. Webb’s deployment was one of NASA’s most complicated spacecraft activities. It involved the deployment of various components in a sequence.  The telescope was launched abroad on an Ariane 5 rocket on December 25. It gradually underwent several maneuvers after being released into space. On January 4, Webb complicated the deployment of its 21-meter-sun-shield. With this, 75% of Webb’s single-point-failure items retired. A day later, Webb’s secondary mirror was put into its required position. And now, ...

A f ter a long wait of 25 years, several budget overruns, and unprecedented delays,  James Webb Space Telescope was finally launched.  A 10 billion dollar time machine working in its full swing can make anyone ecstatic. And the fact that it will collaborate with the Event horizon telescopes in the future to capture the first image of the Milky Way's black hole, Sagittarius A* (pronounce A star),  makes it even more exciting. But when is Webb going to return its first image of the cosmos? What is the first thing it will focus on? And most importantly,  what are its long-term plans? The James Webb Space Telescope will rest in space at Lagrange Point 2, a spot directly behind Earth from the sun's perspective. There, the instrument will make powerful observations of far-off celestial bodies; the telescope's infrared view will be able to penetrate interstellar dust.   (Image credit: Northrop Grumman) The first few months are going to be intense.  Firstly, gettin...