Here are two amazing segments from "The Daily Show" (video at top and bottom of the article) that do a good job of deploring the current status of science (and therefore interest in the metric system, by implication):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/27/jon-stewart-climategate-debunkin-media-mcrib_n_1034792.html In fact, at about the middle of the first segment, Jon Stewart does a nice little bit that demonstrates the regrettable shallowness of too many Americans' understanding of the relationship of the metric system to science ... or the entire real world for that matter. Cheers, Ezra
