The Metric Board was disbanded in 1982, partly because of its failure to effectively manage widespread implementation of the metric system.

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The metric system's governing body has added some new terms to help describe massive amounts of data. The General Conference on Weights and Measures last week added the prefixes "ronna" and ...

From currency and commerce, food labels to laboratories, the metric system is the foundation of many science and math fields. To mark our 100th episode (a multiple of 10, which is the basis for ...

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How did the metric system come to be? Did the French have something to do with it? Find out on this Moment of Science.

No, they don’t inflate the numbers, but they do calculate them differently. It’s because we use U.S. standard units and they use the metric system. Horsepower is power, which is work over time.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson and cultural critic James Panero attacked the metric system as a relic of the French Revolution and a bad way of measuring things in the real world.

The unsuccessful drive to teach the metric system in schools presents a cautionary tale about teacher buy-in for common-core advocates, writes Jeanne Zaino.

(The goal? To do for angle measurements what the metric system was doing for mass and length, democratizing measurement for a new republic.) Women at work tabulating during World War II (Shorpy) ...

KenPom has been a mainstay metric in college basketball for more than 20 years. In the past decade or so, another analytical system has begun to compete with KenPom for the college basketball ...

Hard Lessons At the Olympics, Like The Metric System As the Olympics have shown, participation in sports at this high level can teach discipline, perseverance and teamwork. But can the Olympics ...