BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI ➤ Loneliness can be ➤Students share their ➤Bio bubble can have STUDENT EDITION depressing. Check out ways weekend diary an adverse effect on the TODAY’S cricketers, warn THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021 to fight loneliness ➤ Newspaper in Reviewing your favourite Education EDITION PAGE 2 movie/book can be fun psychologists PAGE 3 PAGE 4 WEB EDITION CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 Elon Musk-run SpaceX has announced the world's first all-civilian mission to space at the end of 2021, in a charity-driven mission named Inspiration4, ANDY JASSY commanded by tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman. The 37-year-old Isaacman Andy Jassy, who joined Amazon is the founder and CEO of an integrated payment processing company Shift4 in 1997 as a marketing manager Payments and a trained pilot... and made its Cloud arm Amazon Web Services (AWS) a distinct leader, will take over as Amazon’s SpaceX will choose three spacecraft, including a specific CEO in about six months people to ride alongside focus on orbital mechanics, In 2003, Jassy founded Amazon Isaacman to orbit the planet operating in microgravity, zero Web Services (AWS) with a team of aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon gravity, and other forms of 57 people and in April 2016, he capsule every 90 minutes, stress testing was promoted from senior vice along a customised flight path They will receive emergency president to the CEO of AWS Upon conclusion of the multi- preparedness training, spacesuit day journey, the Dragon will re- and spacecraft ingress and Today, AWS has nearly a $50 enter the egress exercises, as well as par- billion annual run rate and is Earth's atmos- tial- and full-mission simulations growing exponentially phere for a soft The mission will launch from Born on January 13, 1968, Jassy water landing, off the Launch Complex 39A at NASA's graduated from Harvard College, coast of Florida lars— leadership, hope, generos- Kennedy Space Center in Florida where he was an advertising man- Inspiration4 will fly to inspire ity and prosperity and "will be carefully monitored ager of The Harvard support for St Jude Children's at every step by SpaceX mission Crimson, before earn- Isaacman and the Research Hospital. Isaacman is control" ing an MBA from the Elon Musk to send Inspiration4 crew will undergo donating the three-mission Harvard Business commercial astronaut training Isaacman has given St Jude seats alongside him to crew School by SpaceX on the Falcon 9 two seats on the Inspiration4 members, who will be selected launch vehicle and Dragon mission 1st all-civilian to represent the mission’s pil- The Inspiration4 mission to the International Space marks SpaceX's latest Station(ISS) MISSION TO 1 private astronaut mission In 2018, Musk announced The company's Ax-1 that Japanese billionaire mission, also planned 3 Yusaku Maezawa will Mars’ Gale crater was 2 for the end of 2021, hitch a ride around the Moon similar to Iceland over SPACE THIS hosts a crew of four private on SpaceX's new rocket system 3 billion years ago: astronauts, paying $55 mil- Starship, which is under devel- Study SPACE YEAR lion each for an eight-day trip opment MINTING MONEY 152 crore and counting: MS ALEXEI NAVALNY, WHO, GRETA & DONALD TRUMP Dhoni becomes first cricketer AMONG NOMINEES FOR NOBEL PEACE PRIZE to earn ` 150 crore in IPL latest study has found that ussian dissident Alex- Mars Gale crater had seasons ei Navalny, the World Other names are Belarusian activists A and terrain that were close to S Dhoni has created history by Health Organisation that of Iceland, more than three bil- becoming the first-ever cricketer to and climate cam- Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Maria lion years ago, Using the data from earn more than ` 150 crore in the R paigner Greta Thun- Kolesnikova and Veronika Tsepkalo, for NASA Curiosity rover, the scientists berg are among those nominated concluded that the crater, which was Indian Premier League (IPL). The M for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, their “fight for a fair election and inspi- home to an ancient lake, had similar Chennai Super Kings (CSK) captain had an earning of all backed by Norwegian law- geologic formations that underwent over ` 137 crore before the IPL 2020 retention day. makers, who have a track record ration for peaceful resistance” weathering in different climates when And the moment CSK extended Dhoni's contract, the of picking the winner. The Nor- compared to places on the Earth. wegian Nobel Committee, which Also on the list is Aminatou Haidar, for India legend recorded his name in the history books. decides who wins the award, does not comment on the nominations, her peaceful campaigning towards an According to scientists, the keeping secret for 50 years the independent Western Sahara, the Gale crater was home to a lake Dhoni, who has been leading names of nominators and unsuc- but there is an argument cessful nominees. But the nomi- International Space Station, and the the Yellow Army since IPL nators can choose to reveal their whether the conditions were 1 2008, has a salary of ` 15 picks.Thunberg was named as one International Scout Movement warm and wet or cold and dry, crore/season now. He has been earn- of “the foremost spokespeople in The 2021 laureate will be announced in which would make glaciers and the fight against the climate cri- snow more common and similar ing the same amount since IPL 2018 sis”, with the campaigning group October she co-founded, Fridays for Fu- to Iceland Dhoni was the ture, also receiving a nod. biggest player in 2 the IPL 2008 auc- PIZZA: While this order would not have taken 30 minutes tion. Unsurprisingly, he or less, in 2001, Pizza Hut became the first company to emerged as the costli- Up, Up and Away deliver a pizza into space. The brand struck a deal with est pick, when CSK the Russian space agency Roscosmos to have a pizza delivered to Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachov at the bought him for `6 International Space Station (ISS). The delivery was report- crore. He edly worth $1 million at the time earned the Food items that have same STEAK: In 2019, lab-grown meat made its debut aboard the amount for been sent to SPACE ISS. Israel-based start-up Aleph the next 3 Farms created the world's first years An Indian restaurant owner, Niraj Gadher, who runs a restaurant named Chai Walla in steak grown inside a laboratory Bath, recently sent a samosa into space. While his first two attempts to launch the CHEESE: In 2010, SpaceX and decided to send it out into The three-time savoury snack into the great beyond ended in failure, he succeeded in his third attempt. launched a wheel of the atmosphere. They sent the COLA: Coca-Cola and Pepsi IPL-winning cap- The story didn’t end there. He lost track of the snack, Gruyère cheese into space. necessary tools as well, and the took their rivalry into the While CEO Elon Musk was astronaut had to make a piece great beyond. In 1985, modi- tain has earned when the GPS signal failed. However, after returning to 3 the Earth the following day, the GPS tracker revealed secretive about the cargo of steak, using cow cells and a fied cans carried both the ` 60 crore at CSK that the package had made its way across southern at first, once the mission 3D printer companies' fizzy sugar drinks since their return England, crossed the Channel, and had crash-landed in was accomplished, he into the low Earth orbit on a to the league in Caix in northern France. Well, the samosa isn’t the revealed that it was a hom- space shuttle Challenger mis- sion. However, the astronauts strangest thing to be sent into space. Check out the age to a Monty Python skit, 2018 where John Cleese tries to were banned from showing other strange items that has been sent out there... order cheese from a the cans on TV to avoid taint- cheeseless cheese shop ing NASA with advertising “Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.” READ. PLAY. LEARN RALPH WALDO EMERSON, POET 02 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021 If the pandemic kept you FIND A FRIEND apart from near and dear If the loneliness is interfering with your ability to ones, turn to these tips function, or if you are thinking about self-harm, seek professional help. For milder forms of loneli- to fight the feeling of ness, the best strategy is to seek support from friends. People with stronger social relationships being alone have a higher likelihood of living longer. Just knowing that people are there for umans can survive three minutes without air, three them, Holt-Lunstad says, leads days without water, three to a reduction in stress. If weeks without food and – you are called upon to Haccording to lore – three offer support, this months without companionship. Whether true or not, it’s clear that might involve calling, people need people. And pandemics, texting to check in, many of us are learning, can be lone- dropping off a gift, ly times. If you find yourself lacking or even just waving social support, here are some helpful pointers: from a distance. In fact, research suggests you don’t even need to know the people you are helping. Just donating money to a good cause might help, says Bert Uchino, professor of psychology at the University of IDENTIFY LONELINESS Utah. It was also revealed in an experiment that people who gave money to others were happier than if they spent it on Loneliness is a complicated emotion.
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