For some people, improving VO2 max could help you attain longer, sustained workouts, and offer potential cardiovascular benefits, experts say.  So, whether you’re an athlete, or simply ...

Ever wonder why America sticks to inches and pounds? Turns out, pirates played a surprising role in keeping the metric system ...

America Has Been Struggling With the Metric System For More Than 200 Years The United States is the one of the world’s only holdouts at this point, but it could have been the first country ...

It declared metric “the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce.” The push by Ford was part of a larger effort in the country to adopt metric.

The US uses metric to “define all basic units used in commerce and trade” and says using the metric system with the imperial system actually makes the United States “a truly bilingual nation”.

The Metric Conversion Act declared the metric system “the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce”, but still allowed the use of the current units in all ...

Can the United States of America continue to stand alone against the looming threat of… the metric system? That was the thrust of a June 5 segment by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, in which he ...

In 1866, the Congress and President approved legislation making the metric system legal but not mandatory in the United States. New metric standards were prepared for the states. Educators developed ...

The ongoing use of the imperial system in the United States, despite the global adoption of the metric system, raises intriguing questions about tradition, practicality, and cultural identity ...