Why doesn’t the U.S. use the Metric System? Pirates. In the late 1700s, the U.S. had no standardized system—each state used ...

“The U.S. stands out as the only major industrial nation that doesn’t use the metric system,” says Donald W. Hillger, PhD, president of the US Metric Association. Having said that, the ...

The shows were supposed to kick off on May 10, however, Metric announced yesterday (April ... that broke the agreement we’d made, which left us unable to continue despite our best efforts ...

Metric have confirmed their withdrawal from their US tour with Bloc Party following a dispute over production, Blonde Redhead have replaced them.

Bloc Party and Metric planned a double-duty nostalgia tour ... decisions that broke the agreement we’d made, which left us unable to continue despite our best efforts to find solutions ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war with China comes at a bad time for sorghum growers like Dan Atkisson in Kansas, who ...

We drink alcohol by the ounce and soda by the litre. Why? This unholy amalgam of metric and imperial is the hard-won truce of a chaotic war between a technocracy-obsessed bureaucracy and a liberty ...

Washington | US consumer spending was weaker than expected again in February while a key inflation metric picked up, in a double whammy for the economy before the brunt of tariffs. Inflation ...