Metric Today:
the USMA newsletter

Found in the 2008 July/August issue of Metric Today: What units will the health care industry use for children's weights? Which industry announced a switch to metric units for its standards? What metric-related publications have recently been updated? Who's making metric music? How do you figure out where you are when you break down on a highway? Why is gravity different in math than in physics?

Found in the 2008 May/June issue of Metric Today: Where did USMA get its copy of the prototype meter bar? Why didn't the U.S. go metric in the 1830s? Who made metric fudge on TV? What didn't the National Math Panel recommend?

Found in the 2008 March/April issue of Metric Today: How does the metric system help attract businesses to West Virginia? Can you measure a zeptoliter? Do Japanese labels use SI symbols? What's the story behind metrication at IBM?

Found in the 2008 January/February issue of Metric Today: Which state will likely be the newest to allow metric-only labels? What new size of milk packaging recently turned up? Is there really a problem with the prototype kilogram? Where have Celsius temperatures started to appear? Does it make sense to ban any particular package sizes?

Found in the 2007 November/December issue of Metric Today: Which university campus recently installed metric speed limit signs? Who has been posting metric grocery store shelf signs? Why was the Metric Act of 1866 recently amended? When does 500 meters equal 400 meters? What's the difference between symbols and abbreviations?

Found in the 2007 September/October issue of Metric Today: Which two states are the only ones whose state laws don't permit metric-only labeling? What industry organization has asked those states to allow metric-only labeling? Who is using silicon spheres to develop a better definition of the kilogram? How did Mexico's metrication process evolve? How does USMA's Science Fair Awards Program work?

Found in the 2007 July/August issue of Metric Today: Which states, previously thought not to allow metric-only labels, actually do? Who was recently interviewed on TV about the metric system? How does Australia look to a visiting American, metrically speaking? Which classic book on the metric system has been reprinted? What system of medical centers is in the process of metricating patient measurements?

Found in the 2007 May/June issue of Metric Today: What does the U.S. government think of the EU's metric directive? When is World Metrology Day? Where can you buy metric rulers? Who is on a round-the-world metric tour? How many grams of alcohol does it take to intoxicate a New Yorker? Does a four-liter milk jug fit in your refrigerator?

Found in the 2007 March/April issue of Metric Today: What 38-million-square-kilometer land mass just went metric? Who signed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975? What state just went non-metric in its highway construction process? Which country recently celebrated its 30th anniversary of going metric?

Found in the 2007 January/February issue of Metric Today: Which country is starting a new effort to phase out non-metric units? What U.S. government agency recently stressed the need to use metric standards? Why were decimal points recently in the news? Should car odometers show gigameters? Why is the European Union's metric directive suddenly of international interest?

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