I'm sure that if enough people bug the editors of PS or DM, we could at least expect the metric units to be placed behind the USC units in some articles. Anyone who reads about science on regular basis should know (and expect) the SI units.
I agree about BBC's site--it's really solid on SI reporting for science and technology. One of my favorite internet sites, Space.com, also makes a very good effort of including SI in their articles. For the most part the SI measurements follow the USC units, but sometimes, when the original source is in metric, the SI units come first. When the site first appeared, I emailed them asking and at once encouraging about metric use. They replied the same day saying that they will. Looks like they kept their word.
Remek
On 3/29/06, Mike Millet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I find it annoying whenever I read Popular Science or any scientific publication that has been dumbed down to use non SI units. You end up with such confusing units. I wrote a letter to PopSci encouraging them to use SI units when describing scientific things but no reply as of yet.
I always enjoy reading at least the BBC's site because it does do distances in metric first then possibly a non SI unit in parenthesis. I wish our news services would at least put both in there.
