Photo illustration: Graham Bower/Cult of Mac Apple’s VO 2 max metric measures the performance of your heart and lungs when you push yourself to the limit. Up until now, though, it’s only been useful ...

Students are introduced to the metric system. Introduction to Chemistry continues with a discussion of the Metric System: length, mass, volume, time and temperature are defined, and students learn the ...

Most people think the U.S. never adopted the metric system - but that’s not the whole story. Long before Europe standardized its measurements, America quietly implemented a system based on the very ...

St. Vincent de Paul School in Cape Girardeau is celebrating metric measurements this week. Virginia Sander, a junior high math teacher, said she got the idea to celebrate metric week from an e-mail ...

officially use the metric system for weights and measurements. On the brink of Thursday’s Brexit vote, author Daniel Pink wonders when, if ever, the U.S. might join the rest of the metric world.

Americans have long used diverse weights and measures, reflecting their diverse origins. From colonial times, converting from one unit to another was part of courses in commercial arithmetic. The ...

Now that the United Kingdom is outside the European Union, it’s reviewing thousands of EU rules and regulations to see which it should jettison. Among them is the compulsory use of the metric system ...

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 spoke ...

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