Ever really looked at your Gas bill? Chances are that it shows you your usage in Therms.

Now, what percentage of the population know what a Therm is let alone its relation to other measurements of energy you might otherwise come across?

I bet you don't and if you do a quick poll of those around you, you'll find none of them do either.

For the average householder, the most common energy … continue reading

Ever wanted to see a metric cooking segment on Oprah?

Well, here's your chance.

Oprah is holding a competition for a segment on her show and Sally Mitchell wants to run a metric cooking segment.

Want to help make this a reality?

Here's … continue reading

A letter written to the National Geographic News editors:

In reference to the article at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070226-sinkhole-photo.html:

Since Guatemala, along with all but a very small minority of countries in the … continue reading

The Common Core Standards Group is soliciting feedback on their draft mathematical standards.

If you haven't already, please take a moment to read the standards and continue reading

A letter to NPR on the Sarkozy carbon tax story:

While listening to Sarkozy Wants To Tax France's Carbon Footprint I noticed that the figure 24 cents per gallon was quoted. Given that no European country uses gallons for fuel (let alone US gallons which are different from UK gallons), I checked to see what people who weren't converting the figure were … continue reading

I've been trying to lose weight over the last few months and as such have had reason to review several tools for tracking diet and exercise on the iPhone. The first one I took a look at (because it is free) was Lose It. Unfortunately, I couldn't get past the first screen as it's all US Customary units (no option for metric at all and lots of complaints in the feedback that seem to … continue reading

It's Metric Day. Please take a few minutes today to mail your senators and congress folk requesting they use metric exclusively when writing laws.

The best form for this is a story telling them of some way you've been ripped off or severely inconvenienced by customary measurements or our mixed use of systems.

Sally Mitchell gave a continue reading

Q: How is health care reform like metrication?
A: We're still stuck in the dark ages while the rest of the world has moved on to better, cheaper, ways of doing things.

Extended Answer:
Moving to state run health care similar to the UKs continue reading

The first SF Bay Area USMA meeting will be held at Genentech on July 16 at 16:00 Pacific thanks to James Scott Hudnall This aims to be a bi-weekly meeting of those interested in … continue reading

The Obama administration has an open government dialogue initiative. This is currently being run via Idea Scale.

The site is taking submissions until the end of today. Here are the current metric submissions:

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