Handy Guide for TreeHugger’s Conversion to Metric
Only those three last bastions of freedom and the right to choose, the United States, Liberia, and Burma, still do not use the Metric System. Until now, one could justify this on the basis that the Imperial American system was human scaled, based on our body’s dimensions and things we naturally understood. (Like 0 is really cold and 100 is really hot, who cares about water boiling and freezing?)
Randall Munroe to the rescue, with his guide to getting a feel for metric, full of universal cultural touchstones that everyone can relate to, like the volume of Summer Glau or the length of a Lightsaber. This should be on the wall of every classroom in America. …