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Saw an interesting show on Animal Planet tonight
about the latest set of giant pandas at the National Zoo (which I used to go to
when I lived in metro DC) and the work they did to get a baby panda
born.
The one down side was observing all of the keepers
and curators taking measurements of the baby in US Customary units only. I would
have thought (naively?) that, as scientists who would later share the
information with other scientists, they would have taken their measurements
directly in metric (even if they later converted the data for the general US
public on their web site to US Customary units). The video was unambiguous,
however; they measured mass and length directly in pounds and inches
directly.
Guess we have more of a ways to go here in the
States than even I would have thought ....
(Still wishing for a happy -- and more metric --
new year. :-)
Ezra
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