International System of Units
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Resources
- General
- Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM). a.k.a. International Bureau of Weights and Measures. The authority responsible for the International System. Located in Sèvres, France, a suburb of Paris
- International System of Units. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Loacted in Gaithersburg, Maryland, a suburb of Washinton, DC.
- The kilogram
- A Better Definition for the Kilogram? Scientists Propose a Precise Integer Number of Carbon Atoms. John Toon. Georgia Research Tech News *(21 September 2007).
- This Kilogram Has a Weight-Loss Problem. Geoff Brumfiel. Morning Edition. National Public Radio (21 August 2009).
- A clock directly linking time to a particle's mass. Shau-Yu Lan, Pei-Chen Kuan, Brian Estey, Damon English, Justin M. Brown, Michael A. Hohensee, Holger Müller. Science. Vol. 339 No. 6119 (1 February 2013): 554–557.
- Video on demand
- Brady Haran
- Demise of the Kilogram. Sixty Symbols. YouTube (2014). This video features Professor Michael Merrifield from The University of Nottingham.
- CBC Digital Archives
- Canadians rebel against metric system. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1982). Throughout the 1970s, the move to metric had some opposition — but that was nothing compared to the full-scale metric rebellion hitting the country by 1982.
- Brady Haran