Getting anyone do to dual temperature is very difficult, especially in the media where time is precious. It's good to see these increasing "metric stumbles" on the radio or TV, but in many areas there is a shift away from metric. This is certainly the case in temperature. All new bank temperature displays are in F only nowadays. Displaying Celsius in cars takes undocumented key sequences to accomplish. And electronic body temp thermometers still don't have convenient switches between F and C.
Anyway, I'll get my email out to NPR today. Thanks for letting us know. Remek On 7/9/07, Michael Palumbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was listening to NPR (National Public Radio) this morning while getting ready for work, and they aired a story about soy farming in the Amazon. What caught my ear was that they used hectares when talking about land size, but then used miles to describe the distance between a region in Brazil and the mouth of the Amazon river. I wrote them a polite message thanking them for using hectares, but encouraging them to be consistent and use kilometres as well. If anyone else would like to do the same, I would certainly encourage it. If anyone wants to hear or read the story, here is the URL: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11375220 Additionally, I had previously written to my local affiliate (WHYY in Philadelphia, PA) requesting temperature in both degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit, but no change on that front. I'm not sure what else to do there, except encourage further letter-writing. Cheers, Mike
