Go Metric

i heard on NPR that we are the only big country to not officially adopt metric. our non-standard friends are liberia and burma (or myanmar). needless to say we just aren't standard with the rest of the world. i didn't catch the whole npr story as i was listening while trying to write my synthetic scheme for tomorrow's work in lab. but basically i think the idea was we need to catch up with the rest of the world or it will leave us behind even if we are big. the rest of the world is still bigger. so anyways here's a link with some interesting information on how other countries made the switch to metric.