If you know your U.S. history, there have been several attempts to adopt the metric system, all to no avail. It's the universal standard for most of the world and way more intuitive, yet the ...

In the 1790s, piracy of a ship carrying metric standards intended for then-U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson played a role in America's decision to not adopt the metric system. Rating: False ...

As an engineer and science educator, I found reading your coverage of the movement to abandon the metric system in the U.K. disheartening (“U.K. Weighs Saying Cheerio to Metric System,” Page ...

THIS diagram of the metric units of length, area and volume is printed on a sheet of paper about 3 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 6 inches. The various measures are shown full size. To be of the greatest ...

While these three countries continue to use the imperial system, both Liberia and Myanmar are gradually introducing metric units, which are already widely used in some contexts. In the United ...

A metric prefix is a numerical multiplier that is placed before a basic unit of measure to indicate a specified multiple or fraction of that unit. They range from the smallest, 'yocto' (1 ...

If you are one of the estimated 125,000 US citizens who now call Costa Rica home, welcome to the world of metric. Get ready to adjust to measurements in the clean and logical metric system. A few ...

Male, brown hair, blue and white striped top: Feet and inches. Male, black hair and goatee, blue and white striped top: Pounds and ounces. Male, grey curly hair, checked top: Centimetres ...