In physical science class we had to debate over what we think of converting to the metric system and that really got me thinking. Is the customary system really benefiting the US? There are many ...

CNN — I was at the supermarket recently when I took note of something my eyes had passed thousands of times before. The cans of my favorite sodas were 12 ounces, while the bottles were 2 liters. It ...

Have you ever noticed that systems of measurement tends to change when you leave the United States? Weight is typically measured in kilograms instead of pounds, distance is measured in kilometers over ...

A new review of U.S. infrastructure, science, and manufacturing reveals that America relies heavily on the metric system ...

THE necessity for these tables reminds us what an immense amount of time is wasted by the retention of the barbarous and cumbersome English system of measures. In two nations with more than 100 ...

(via Veritasium) The US signed the metre convention and bases all customary units on SI standards. As an aside, the Utah constitution from 1895 required the metric system to be taught in schools. This ...

The humorist Dave Barry has more than once suggested "millipedes" as an imaginary unit of measurement (for example, 120 miles = 2,342,424,323.3432 millipedes), poking fun at the inscrutability of the ...