The British Weights and Measures Association (BWMA) exists, it says, “to protect and promote British weights and measures, and to oppose compulsory use of the metric system”. Their catchy slogan: “campaigning for inch-pound industries and consumer interests”. They maintain a list of “Corporate Culprits” — people and groups of whom they say: Just who are the […]
Tag: Imperial
Another look/talk with a swordsman
Reuters Television filmed an interview with 2007 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize co-winner Dan Meyer at Imperial College London as he was preparing for the Ig Nobel UK Tour show there last week (the video also includes brief glimpses of the show itself): Talk about a dangerous job – a professional sword swallower has co-authored a […]