As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...

In prehistoric times, not much needed to be measured. You ate what you found and lived where you could. The advent of agriculture and civilization, however, necessitated a way for people to measure ...

Balancing act The two systems of measurement – imperial and metric – are often used together in UK shops. (Courtesy: iStock/Paolo Paradiso) When I was at primary school in the 1960s, measurements were ...

As presidential candidates attempt to win the Latino vote, the labor vote and the women's vote, Lincoln Chafee, the ex-governor and senator from Rhode Island, seems to be going for the pro-metric vote ...

The good news is that Imperial forces are losing the battle for planetary dominance. The bad news is that we’re on their team. The British Imperial System of measurement, born in 1824, was an ...

Patients at Concord Hospital who weren’t paying attention during their most recent office visit might think that they had lost an awful lot of weight. The hospital and its affiliated private practices ...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson railed against the metric system of measurement in his show on Wednesday night, describing it as "inelegant" and "creepy." James Panero, a cultural critic and executive ...

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On April 19, 1973, Wilson Riles, superintendent of public instruction for California. called to announce that beginning in 1976 the metric system would be taught in California. The reaction from the ...

Now that the United Kingdom is outside the European Union, it’s reviewing thousands of EU rules and regulations to see which it should jettison. Among them is the compulsory use of the metric system ...