I just happened to look at this BBC report on their web site about a lake that
has formed in Pakistan because a mud slide has blocked the flow of melting
snow:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10200876.stm
The report lasts only a minute and a half and yet somehow the reporter
Dear All,
Here is a 17 minute metrication talk that I gave in Melbourne a few
weeks ago.
http://www.tedxmelbourne.com/2010/06/pat-naughtin-metrication
This talk is also available on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY
I would appreciate any comments you might like to
How can discussing all aspects of measurements (which will include different
measuring 'systems') damage metric? How patronising! Like metric isn't
'strong' enough to be discussed in the same arena as imperial? Now *that* is
anti-metric. There has to be a degree of opposing opinion for a
The text description also had an error = 91.44 m (330 ft). I have however
e-mailed them and with any luck they will have corrected it. (They are
usually good at making this type of correction)
Concerning our new government - I think that their first question will be
How much will it cost?
Don't forget how the tories advertised themselves at the euro elections talking
about 'saving the lb and the oz' and wotnot.
Although the liberals are probably more metric-friendly (if they could stop
being 'uncovered' by the press for having their noses in the troughs).
From:
Steve,
Hope all goes well with your son.
There was a survey of hospital scales by LARCOS last year - it seemed that
some hospital people (administrators?, bean counters?) did not consider
hospital scales to be medical equipment, so they were happy to buy cheap
ones. Since the report
I honestly could not tell you if the scales we had to use were metric or dual
or switchable. I do know that they were LCD but I had to step on the scales
backwards and then take hold of my son (thus total weight minus my weight =
baby weight). This was the Stoke Mandeville hospital which
Dear All,
The history of the metric system is the history of seeking honesty in
all measurement. This is true from the earliest hieroglyphs about
Thoth in the pyramids, through the first books of the Bible, to the
current activities of the CGPM through the BIPM.
Opponents of honesty seek
Dear All,
I don't know if these are reliable figures, but they are interesting
nevertheless.
http://www.ivotemobile.com/Should_the_U.S._convert_to_the_metric_system:q
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain
from
Just a test to see if my e-mails are posting to the list.
Thanks, Paul
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