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We want to GO Metric NOW. WE want to remove the old measuring system and WE WILL DO IT. Comments

 

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METRIC SYSTEM - slowly getting there, inch by inch

Myanmar is switching !!!

Myanmar, Burma

According to the CIA Factbook only Burma (Myanmar), Liberia, and the United States have yet to adopt the International System of Units as their official system of measurement.

THE basket, viss, tin and tical would largely disappear from Myanmar if the Ministry of Commerce gets its way.

At a meeting on the development of wholesale centres held in Magwe last month, participants agreed in principle to the government’s proposal to adopt the kilogram as the basic unit for commodities trade in all townships.

Vale Pat Naughtin - our Mr Metrication!

It is with great sadness  that we learnt  that a regular guest on Overnights, Pat Naughtin, (Mr Metrication) passed away on Saturday July 16 2011.

Pat’s regular segments  on measurement were extremely popular with our listeners.  We really appreciated Pat’s enthusiasm for the program, he would even travelled from his home in Geelong to come into the studio with Trevor.

Kitchen Spoons Inaccurate Dosing Tools

medicine - use SI units

When it comes to dosages of cold medicine, your kitchen spoons may not be measuring up. Using spoons to measure medicine may be causing you to under or overdose, according to new research in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

“Spoon dosing has been identified as 1 of the 3 major causes of dosing errors and pediatric poisonings,” authors of the study wrote. “Most persons still use spoons when pouring medicine for themselves and their families.”

Congressman and physicist Vern Ehlers: A champion for science

U.S. Representative Vernon Ehlers (R-MI)

U.S. Representative Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), one of American metrication's best friends in the Congress, is retiring from his seat.

One of the science community's own, US Representative Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), is retiring from Congress this year. Recognized widely as "Mr Science" and the "smartest" Member of Congress, Ehlers was the first research physicist to serve in Congress and has been a tireless champion of science in this nation.

"Either you're a nerd, or you work for one" is one of Ehlers's favorite sayings. He is also fond of pointing to his pocket protector with pride. Ehlers received his undergraduate degree in physics and his PhD in nuclear physics from the University of California, Berkeley. After six years on the faculty at Berkeley, he moved to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he taught physics for 16 years and became department chair.

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