Dear All,
This year 'National Metric Week' will be from October 6 to October 10,
see http://www.nctm.org/news/content.aspx?id=10248
You may recall that I suggested that one way to support National
Metric Week in the USA is to place posters around your place of work.
With the help of Bill Hooper and Jim Palfreyman, I have slightly
revised this suggestion for a poster:
http://metricationmatters.com/docs/SIMetricUnitsVsUSAMeasures.pdf
So now the item from the Metrication matters newsletter would read:
One thing you can do to promote the metric system at your work place
is to pin pro-metric items on to notice boards around your school or
work place. Here are some that you might like to download and print
ready for 'National Metric Week' in the USA.
For a general-purpose notice board think about:
http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/degreesCelsiusPoster.pdf ,
http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/NationalMetricDay.pdf and
http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/SIMetricUnitsVsUSAMeasures.pdf
Or if you work in a scientific or engineering environment you might
like:
http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/EnergyWords.pdf
The 'National Metric Week' is strongly supported by the U.S. Metric
Association; see http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/metric-week.html
for details.
As a gift for your friends and to remind them of 'National Metric
Week' you might like to pass along this one minute YouTube reference
to 'Let's Get Metric' by Scott Wheatley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeyGEwjLPGw
Or if you want to illustrate the cost of not going metric refer them
to the YouTube video, American Chopper vs The Metric System, where the
mechanics are trying to figure out the answer to the question: 'What
is the difference between 180 millimetres and 140 millimetres'? except
they seem unaware of the initial metric design and build
specifications for this all-metric model bike, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omh8Ito-05M
And finally a YouTube reference for schools apparently made with the
support of NASA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQPQ_q59xyw&feature=rec-HM-rev-rn
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain
from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the
modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they
now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for
their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many
different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial
and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA.
Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST,
and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com
for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected]
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