http://askanything.today.com Telling you like it is no matter what the question. Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:13:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Davida asked:  Ok. Danny and I have read your view on my needing time “off” and agree that it better be sooner rather than later. So, now he keeps asking me what I want to do. I haven’t a clue. He’s trying to help me get away and I ... http://askanything.today.com/2009/04/04/doing-something-for-you/ Aron said:  Hey, you work at NASA, that is really cool. One day you have to write an article on how you landed that job. I dream of leading a space habitation effort with NASA, maybe you could provide a roadmap on how to get that job. If answering ... http://askanything.today.com/2009/04/04/how-i-became-a-rocket-scientist/ Aron asked:  Should I go to the prom? I'm glad you asked that.  Wait a minute, you might ask yourself, how could I possibly know whether or not you should go to the prom (other than my phenominal cosmic psychic power)? Well, I wouldn't. But I can help you understand what ... http://askanything.today.com/2009/04/04/why-so-formal/ I'd forgone awards on my other blog Rocket Scientist, but actually being awarded involves a response so it fits right in over here.  I have to thank Lola of Lola's Diner (who, I might add, provided my first question on this blog) for this lovely "Honest Scrap" Award. Lola has a ... http://askanything.today.com/2009/04/01/honest-scrap-award/ Davida told me:  I told my husband that I wanted to be away for a weekend. I just wanted to run away. I didn’t want to be around him or my daughter. I LOVE THEM BOTH MORE THAN ANYTHING… I just wanted to be by myself. Honestly, a few ... http://askanything.today.com/2009/03/30/time-to-yourself/ Caregivingdaughter asked:  Exactly what are calcifications?  What causes them?  Why would I have them in one breast and not the other?  Does having them increase my changes for developing breast cancer? I'm not an expert on breast cancer nor do I have any personal experience, but I think it's an ... http://askanything.today.com/2009/03/29/questions-about-breast-cancer/ Patricia asked:  It’s hard for me to decipher “real physics” from the fiction (in Sawyer’s novel) to the often hysteria one finds in media stories (I mean, the Collider does actually exist and they do conduct experiments which could go awry?). Add to that, all the hype over the approaching ... http://askanything.today.com/2009/03/29/the-end-of-the-world/ DrBurst asked:  Anyway, I have a question. I joined the AIAA, now I want to become an active member and use my membership to the fullest. How do I do this? Does being an undergrad change things?  Here at "Ask Me Anything", we love questions, even those questions we just don't ... http://askanything.today.com/2009/03/28/making-the-most-of-professional-organizations/ Flit  asked (on Rocket Scientist ):  Science fiction writers seem to be increasingly fond of the notion of worlds we don't know about... not so much on other planets... one of the books we've read for class mentioned "brane phsyics" (as in membrane)...and of course, Sawyer's parallax trilogy is all ... http://askanything.today.com/2009/03/28/the-theory-of-everything/ Shakespeare asks:  What can I do to get more TIME? I make lists, try to stay organized, but I have so much housework, so much other stuff, and I feel as if I don’t get to half the stuff I want to each day. What can I do to ... http://askanything.today.com/2009/03/25/ah-shakespeares-time/