IF it were possible to make a clean sweep of British units of measurement and substitute for them the metric system, probably no one would benefit more than the surveyor and map maker. No one who ...

The metric system is used by nearly every country in the world—except for a stubborn few. Why do countries like the U.S.

This may seem like a small thing, but, as I learned in this week’s episode of my podcast Margins of Error, the unwillingness of America to take up the metric system speaks to a far larger issue ...

The metric system is widely adopted worldwide, but we still use a base-60 system for timekeeping that predates the rest of the metric system. The French did attempt to “decimalize” timekeeping ...

An oft-repeated "weird fact" is the claim that, if not for the scourge of Caribbean piracy, the United States would have adopted the metric system in the 1790s, making it the country's standard ...

From 1974 onwards, a welcome change occurred when it became compulsory for UK schools to teach metric units – a measurement system that made sense, based on multiples of 10. The bizarre vocabulary of ...

Metric was officially declared America’s preferred system of measurement in 1975, but the U.S. public has been slow to embrace it. What do Liberia, Myanmar, and the United States have in common?

Ever wondered what happened to our country’s conversion to the metric system? I did too. So, I did some digging and turned up some dead bodies in the process. Advertisement Article ...