[USMA:54625] Re: Metric Units Take over New Technology

Reply to [USMA 54623] Mark Henschel You draw attention to an aspect of advancing metrication that metric advocates have rarely commented upon: new technologies start using metric from the beginning, so U.S. legacy units don't even get a foothold. This is true, for example, for the Compact

[USMA:54648] Interesting Comments on Metric in Forbes Medical Article

Forbes Magazine Pharma Healthcare 03/18/2015 17:56 Questioning This Week's Heath Scare Linking Diet Soda To Belly Fat http://www.forbes.com/sites/fayeflam/2015/03/18/questioning-this-weeks-heath-scare-linking-diet-soda-to-belly-fat/ Quote: One of the ways the coverage confused people comes

[USMA:54673] FYI: NCSL International Workshop Symposium, July 19-23 Grapevine, TX

NCSL International Workshop Symposium, July 19-23, 2015 Grapevine, Texas. Measurement Science and the Quality of Life The 2015 NCSL International Workshop Symposium will bring measurement experts together to tell their Amazing Stories of Measurement. All speakers lead significant programs

[USMA:54671] Video Vault: Adult Metric Instruction

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2015/03/26/video-vault-metric-in-school.html From the local Columbus, Ohio, TV station in 1976. The accompanying text unfortunately perpetrates the usual misinformation: the U.S. isn't metric, etc. You'd think that these clueless journalists hadn't ever

[USMA:54663] Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wants Metric

The NRC has decided the United States should just be more like Europe they want the two bureaucracies to align. I can see the advantage to that kind of congruence in attempts to change us from the English system of measure to the metric system at least that would save money in the long run.

[USMA:54733] Paul Trusten Gets through to CNN

Paul Trusten, USMA Vice President, got through to CNN as of 06/19/15 18:19 EDT: www.cnn.com/2015/06/04/politics/lincoln-chafee-metric-system/index.html. It sure doesn't say much for Chafee that he has such a disorganized office and campaign staff that Paul was able to get through to CNN, but

[USMA:54724] Democratic Presidential Candidate Advocates Completing Metric Conversion

06/03/15 Fox News and Other Sources Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced he is running for president on Wednesday, becoming the third Democrat to challenge Hillary Clinton. Today I am formally entering the race for the Democratic nomination for president, Chafee said in a

[USMA:54727] An Opportunity for the USMA (or Chafee Could Do a Lot of Harm)

Paul (Trusten) -- A good response as always, Paul. The advantage of Chaffee's statement is that it has drawn attention to the metric question once again. BUT -- and it is a big BUT: Chafee did an absolutely lousy job in rolling out his policy. He claimed (briefly) that metrication would be

[USMA:54737] Don Hillger Gets through on Metric

I am particularly glad to note that Don Hillger, our new USMA President, spoke of completing conversion to metric. I have spoken to several people since Chafee's announcement, and I was quite surprised to see how ignorant people are about metric, much worse than in the 1970, when they were

[USMA:54739] Fact-Check Article on Metric

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/07/lincoln-chafee/lincoln-chafee-says-ronald-reagan-talked-about-con/ Some two thousand years ago, the Roman satirist Juvenal wrote the prescient words: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? This article, purportedly a fact-check piece,

[USMA:54745] Re: Metric Units Already Used in the US

Jim (Frysinger)-- This is exactly what I was talking about, and I didn't even know that it had already been compiled! I think that Don Hillger might want to feature this information on the USMA website, and Gary Brown might want to get some of it into Metric Today. The last paragraph in your

[USMA:54742] Interview for Here and Now NPR program

The problem I see is that we (USMA) still get bogged down way too much in mathematical and technical and historical technicalities, which a mostly science-ignorant population tunes out. In this interview, the practical argument was relegated to the very last few seconds, after lots of talk

[USMA:54774] International Coverage in Metric

One thing that is pushing more metric is cable television, with its international channels and coverage of foreign events. For example, this weekend is the Open de France golf tournament being played just outside of Paris. Although the commentators on cable's Golf Channel are American, they

[USMA:54818] [Rep: Al Lawrence] U.S. Is Metricating Faster than We Think

Al-- Your suggestion for the USMA to push metric with businesses more than government was well argued and is the kind of new direction that I think our movement needs. We have limited resources, and if could get one other major industry to go metric, that would be a significant accomplishment.

[USMA:54816] U.S. Is Metricating Faster than We Think

I was reminded today that sometimes we metricators lose sight of the forest for the trees. We're always talking so much about how the U.S. is not completely metricated that we overlook the increasing number of areas in which it is becoming metricated. Some of you may have heard on the

[USMA:54876] Earthquake in Metric Units

I was pleased to see that the information on this morning's small earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area was given entirely in metric units. It was obvious that the information box broadcasted was cribbed unedited from the U.S. Geological Survey site, which gives information in kilometers.

[USMA:54843] Metrication of Pharmaceuticals

Paul (Trusten) -- In watching a 1972 movie on television the other night, I noticed that a hospital physician ordered a medication in grains. That reminded me that I had never heard an explanation about how it came about that the medicinal area became almost completely metricated at some

[USMA:54851] Abbreviation for Degrees Celsius

I'm sure that this has been addressed before, but I can find no specific answer in my library of standards documents. When using the limited ASCII character set, how do you write the symbol for the degree Celsius? Is it 40 oC, using the rule that there is to be a space between the numeral and

[USMA] Do We "Metrify"?

http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/variety-an-acrostic-that-floats/?_r=0 ___ USMA mailing list USMA@colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma

[USMA] NASA Used the Metric System to Get to the Moon

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20151126/OPINION/151129771?Title=The-Buzz-Nov-27-2015 ___ USMA mailing list USMA@colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma

[USMA] The State of the Metric System in Turkey

http://www.todayszaman.com/expat-zone_weighing-up-weights-and-measures_405680.html ___ USMA mailing list USMA@colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma

[USMA] Timex Metropolitan+ Goes "All Metric"

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20151126/OPINION/151129771?Title=The-Buzz-Nov-27-2015 ___ USMA mailing list USMA@colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma

[USMA 18] Metric Shoes

This article from today's Huffington Post uses exclusively metric units: www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-charfen/your-shoes-are-an-unstable-foundation_b_8760374.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp0592 ___ USMA mailing list USMA@colostate.edu

[USMA 21] Paris Agreement in Degrees Celsius

I was interested to note that in the reporting I heard about the Paris "climate control" agreement, the goal was, except in one case, stated as "1 degree Celsius." Only in one instance did a reporter add "1.8 degrees Fahrenheit." It was nice to hear the whole Celsius number, whereas

[USMA 58] U.S. Is 100% Metric in Puerto Rico and Guam

When we talk about the U.S. not being metric (which is really not true, as you know, either legally or practically), we forget that these two U.S. Territories are fully metric. Just more ammunition for our side.

[USMA 57] U.S. Metric Act Drove Canada to Metric, if Not U.S.

I had never heard this story of how close Canada came to dumping metric. Thank goodness Prime Minister Trudeau stood firm in 1976. Even Jimmy Carter, unbeknownst to him, saved metric in Canada if not in the U.S. Would that we had had a President as foresightful and courageous as Trudeau!

[USMA 49] Metric in 1869 Harvard Entrance Examination

1869 Harvard Entrance Examination: graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvardexam.pdf Note Question 8 under Arithmetic. I wonder how many current high-school seniors would even know where to start! ___ USMA mailing list

[USMA 52] "The Nation" Argues for U.S. Metrication

www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/US-leaves-the-world-puzzled-by-dragging-its-feet-o-30275741.html ___ USMA mailing list USMA@colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma

[USMA 39] Motorsports Cyclist Praises Metric System

Alexander Smith, competing in Dakar, made the following statement to the press: "One good thing is, being an Australian of the metric system, the roadmap distances are in kilometers so I have no trouble remembering those during the crash course in navigating by American off-road legend, Quinn

[USMA 45] New York Times: Half of Businesses Metricated

[The last two paragraphs are the important ones. --Martin Morrison] NEW YORK TIMES BACK STORY What do the U.S., Liberia and Myanmar have in common? They are the only nations that do not mandate the metric system as their official measurement standard. Its not for lack of trying, at least

[USMA 46] Metric American Football

www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/sports/The-Toilet-Bowl-memories-overflow-363249011.html ___ USMA mailing list USMA@colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma

[USMA:54898] Journalist Goes Pro-metric

Journalist miscalculates because of confusion in use of legacy unit "acres" and is converted to a pro-metric position. granitegeek.concordmonitor.com/2015/11/17/670-trillion-or-maybe-425-trillion-the-number-of-peep-able-leaves-on-new-hampshire-trees/

[USMA:54901] Is Microsoft Windows 10 Ignorant of Metric in the U.S.?

From a business article: "Microsoft's voice-activated digital assistant, Cortana, which Canadians could previously only use by lying about their location, is now officially available in English Canada (the French Canada localization is due sometime next year) on all devices. Like Google Now

[USMA:54902] Even Obsolescent "Ounces" Can Be Deceptive

At least with grams, you wouldn't have to use two decimal places! "Lawsuit: Safeway ripped off canned-tuna customers A $5 million class-action lawsuit filed in San Francisco accuses Safeway of shortchanging customers who purchased store-brand canned tuna. Ehder Soto of Aptos, Calif., said in

[USMA:54905] Metric Is American

What does even Thanksgiving has to be tagged with anti-metric false propaganda. Somehow we in USMA have to get out the message that, as I put it in one newspaper article, "metric is as American as apple pie, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln." From: "Golf Digest" Magazine "...True,

[USMA:54906] More False Propaganda from the Ignoscenti

Below is another hackneyed error, just as untrue as the previous one from "Golf Digest." The USMA is starting to address this one by its new motto about "completing" the conversion to the Metric System. I think that a good deal of the P.R. problem is that Americans (that is, U.S. natives;

[USMA 207] Astronomy Magazines

Concerning Don Hillger's comment in the July-August 2016 "Metric Today" on the Sky & Telescope resisting metrication, there is another popular astronomy magazine, Astronomy, which does a better job. If I recall correctly from having perused the latest issue at the supermarket, Astronomy is

[USMA 206] An historian explains why the U.S. still hasnt adopted the global standard

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/06/whos-afraid-of-the-metric-system/395057/ Who's Afraid of the Metric System? Yoni Appelbaum Jun 6, 2015 Technology When former Rhode Island senator and governor Lincoln Chafee formally jumped into the presidential race on Wednesday, he made

[USMA 88] "You Don't Want the Guy Who Didn't Understand the Metric System"

http://www.daily-journal.com/opinion/editorials/take-the-test-it-s-the-only-way-to-compete/article_0295fa2e-9867-5a72-95ee-2ffac8ae95a4.html Every now and then, someone scores a critical success with a lecture or book such as "All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten." It's

[USMA 89] Creator of Periodical Table Introduced Metric System to the Russian Empire

http://www.prepsure.com/news/182nd-birthday-of-periodic-table-creator-dmitir-mendeleev-his-contribution$ 182nd Birthday of Periodic Table Creator Dmitir Mendeleev: His contribution and use of Sanskrit All you need to know about Dmitir Mendeleev, creator of Periodic Table, on his 182nd birth

[USMA 87] "An Impassioned Plea for the Metric System"

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2016/02/food-lab-cooking-science-kenji-lopez-alt The food lab: better home cooking through science 10 February 2016 J. Kenji Lpez-Alt W W Norton & Company 2015 | 938pp | 26.40 ISBN 9780393081084 Reviewed by Yuandi Li The professional kitchen is often seen as a

[USMA 90] Master Choclatier Recommends Metric

http://onmilwaukee.com/dining/articles/5tipsfromanetterighidefendi.html 5 tips from master chocolatier Anette Righi DeFendi Published Feb. 11, 2016 at 11:01 a.m. Valentine's Day is right around the corner. And whether you're spending it with friends, family or even that special someone, the

[USMA 100] Britain's "Brexit" May Sink Metric

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/foreign/21-Feb-2016/what-if-the-uncharted-waters-of-brexit If there is any country more stupid than the U.S., it is Britain! See the last paragraph. A British exit from the European Union would leave the country in uncharted territory, no country having ever

[USMA 96] Another Area of Metric Conversion - Nuclear Medicine

I noticed that in last night's "Madame Secretary" on CBS, one of the few good drama programs left, when the Secretary of State's husband suffers radiation poisoning from an Islamic dirty bomb, the physician in charge says that he has received "one Sievert" of radiation, which is described as

[USMA 98] New York Times: "Don't Let the Metric System Scare You"

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/23/dining/how-to-make-coffee.html?_r=0 2. Use a Scale, Not a Scoop Now that nerd has gone from a slur to a compliment, it frees you to be more compulsive about how you make coffee. To start, coffee should be measured in grams, using a digital scale.

[USMA 99] CDC Makes Lethal Metric Error Caught by "60 Minutes"

Remember the Mars Lander crashing because someone used legacy units? This is worse. Note particularly the penultimate paragraph. http://www.vocativ.com/news/289002/cdc-laminate-cancer/ CDC Revises Health Risk Assessment Of Flooring After Math Error CDC recently announced that laminate

[USMA 71] Agricultural Reporter Writes: "Time to Go Metric"

www.hpj.com/opinion/time-to-go-metric/article_2cf2e38c-72ed-584e-a6e8-c92112c2d929.html We missed an opportunity to move our primary system of measurement to the metric system back in the late 1970s. People rose up against changing from miles to meters and from quarts to liters for what good

[USMA 69] "Barrel" of Oil

[Don & Paul -- This could be a little item for "Metric Today". --Martin Morrison, MT Columnist] "The measure of an oil barrel is defined as 42 US gallons, which is the rough equivalent of 159 liters. It has become an international standard since 1872 and is based on King Richard IIIs English

[USMA 91] CNN Uses "Centimeter" in Politics

I have heard some stations use millimeters for small distances, but this morning on CNN occurred the first time when I heard centimeters used outside of a scientific context. One of the morning hosts described two Presidential candidates as a "centimeter" apart in their political positions.

[USMA 93] Reuters Translates Legacy Unit to Metric

This is the first time that I have seen anything like this. Reuters glossed a U.S. Legacy unit to metric. We have all seen metric units glossed into Legacy, but this is the first time that I have seen it done the other way around: "Later Wednesday, the pope will be driven to the fence that

[USMA 116] USMA State Science Fair Awards in Wyoming

http://thesheridanpress.com/?p=50060 STATE SCIENCE FAIR: Local students earn awards in Laramie March 11, 2016 Students from Holy Name Catholic School pause for a photo at the 2016 Wyoming State Science Fair that took place March 2-4 in Laramie. Pictured, front row from left, are Katelin

[USMA 156] Japan Enforces Metric System

50 YEARS AGO Friday, April 1, 1966 Metric system goes into effect nationwide Today the metric system will be enforced in all aspects of Japanese life. The metric system was put into effect on Jan. 1, 1959, but a period of grace was provided for its enforcement in the areas of real estate and

[USMA 139] Rethinking Society - The Metric System

This one gets it right. http://www.solomonstarnews.com/viewpoint/letters-to-the-editor/9989-rethinking-society-and-the-human-spirit [v. ad finem] Solomon Star News Rethinking society and the human spirit Published: 24 March 2016 Dear Editor - Science thinking and religious thinking has changed

[USMA 138] USMA Awards to National Honor Society

http://blog.nola.com/eastjefferson/2016/03/john_curtis_school_inducts_30.html [V. ad finem] John Curtis School inducts 30 new National Honor Society members Alexis Lang By Alexis Lang on March 23, 2016 at 3:09 PM, updated March 24, 2016 at 8:29 AM Congratulations to our 30 new members of the

[USMA 140] A Positive Attitude about the Metric System

http://www.collegian.com/2016/03/australia-abroad-convert-your-thinking/157199/ Australia Abroad: Convert your thinking to the metric system I have done a pretty good job taking care of myself here. Most of my meals are either grilled cheese sandwiches, quesadillas or noodles with chicken if

[USMA 141] Why That Overseas Whiskey You Buy Is 700 ml Not 750 ml

http://thewhiskeywash.com/2016/03/17/u-s-country-use-750ml-bottling-standard/ Ever wondered why the standard whiskey bottle is 750 milliliters (ml) in the U.S. and 700 ml in Europe? As a result of a federal regulation that alcohol be sold based on metric conversions of United States customary

[USMA 108] Leister Mercury: "Why we should stay in the EU and go metric"

Leister Mercury, U.K. The coming EU referendum should turn our minds to matters metric. This morning I read on my milk bottle label that I have 2 pints, or 1.136 litres. In the supermarket I buy a litre of whisky and in the pub a pint of beer. The speedometer in my car gives me a reading in

[USMA 176] Re: eCreamery Uses the Metric System "Of Course"

Mark (Henschel)-- It is disappointing that latter-day Democrats, who claim to be "progressive," have been useless as far as promoting the metric system is concerned. The modern U.S. movement started in the 1970s with Republican Gerald Ford, but Republican Ronald Reagan slowed it down.

[USMA 172] eCreamery Uses the Metric System "Of Course"

http://www.ketv.com/news/2016-nebraska-science-festival-ecreamery/39080938 ___ USMA mailing list USMA@colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma

[USMA 187] Leading U.S. Swimmer Advocate Metric System

http://www.dailyrepublic.com/sports/rodriguezs-strong-looking-to-make-splash-with-adelphi/; "McLaughlin, the lone remaining coach from when the school opened in 2001, talked of Strongs strengths as a swimmer, as a student and as a person, including his insistence that the United States needs

[USMA 163] Medication errors related to metric/imperial conversions

Medication errors related to metric/imperial conversions Simple conversion errors, unfortunately common in the only country in the world that has not fully embraced the metric system, can be deadly for patients especially children. Recording patient weight in kilograms instead of pounds, or

[USMA 278] Lighting Is Metric from the Start

Add to the product areas metricated from the start the luminous flux (lumen) and luminous intensity (lux) in the measurement of flashlight intensity, as advertised in current television advertising. I don't remember any units being used before (probably because flashlights weren't advertised

[USMA 273] Reply To: SAE More Metric

Stan (Jackuba)-- I agree with your final point. I think that we will see metrication come naturally rather than by government mandate. One big driver is technology. I have noticed that when a new area of technology is rolled out -- electric cars and Compact Fluorescent Lights, for example,

[USMA 266] Pokemon GO Forces Americans to Learn Metric

8 Astonishing Pokemon GO Facts You Need to Know About In Pokemon GO, the latest rage game played on cell phones by young and old alike, you need to think in kilometers instead of miles. Gizmodo predicts that millions of young Americans will eventually learn the metric system all because of

[USMA 304] First Brexit, now SOME Brits want to leave the metric system

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/08/31/first-brexit-now-brits-want-to-leave-the-metric-system Like the U.S., metric has gone too far to turn back in practice. Postmedia Network First posted: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 01:05 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 01:20 PM EDT Buoyed by

[USMA 311] Metric Earthquakes on CNN

I noticed that in CNN's coverage of the Oklahoma City earthquake this morning, the depth was given in kilometers, both on the graphic display and orally. Unfortunately, the reporter felt contrained to give a "translation" into miles, and then give other descriptions in miles. I conjecture

[USMA 320] A Plea for Safety: Use Metric Radiation Units

http://www.nature.com/news/modernize-radiation-measurements-to-save-lives-1.20579 Nature - International Weekly Journal of Science Modernize radiation measurements to save lives The US refusal to use SI radiation units is confusing and dangerous. Its time to make the switch. 13 September 2016

[USMA 299] Pokemon Go Forces Metric on the U.S.

"The game has forced American players to come to terms with the metric system. The game relies on metric measurements, and as such, online searches for metric conversions have risen sharply." blastmagazine.com/2016/08/23/5-things-might-not-know-pokemon-go/