To Discover Magazine: It's about time.

I finished high school in 1968. The physics textbook we used was the P.S.S.C. text, an American textbook. There were no inches, miles, feet, or pounds in that book.

It is now 2005, 37 years later. Yet Discover Magazine, my favourite science magazine, still uses those units, instead of metres, kilometres, and kilograms. Two entire generations of American children have grown up with the metric system in science. When will Discover Magazine slide into the twenty-first century and realize that American adults and youth are ready to read scientific articles that contain the units as the rest of the world uses; indeed, the same system of measurements that the scientists in their own country use daily?