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 ...

School” event in the Middle School, I overheard one SLCSD teacher say to another: “China’s technology beats ours because we haven’t embraced the metric system.” I know both teachers, but did not say ...

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Back when I was a Catholic-school kid in northern Wisconsin, my school lessons briefly focused on the metric system. This was in the late 1970s. Along with learning cursive and the referents of rosary ...

One of the reasons George Santayana’s famous line about forgetting the past resonates is because humans can be so bad at remembering. That’s especially true about the past 25 years of liberal Western ...

THE readers of the article by Mrs. Anderton and P. H. Bigg on ‘The Yard Unit of Length’ 1 may be interested in the results of an investigation following a discussion on metric to inch conversion. The ...

Google is rolling out a new way to measure upper-funnel impact. Branded Searches — a conversion type first teased at Google Marketing Live 2025 – is now live. Why it matters. Advertisers can now ...

Correction: A previous version of this story claimed the metric signage began in the 1980s. The decision was made in 1975. A unique stretch of highway in southern Arizona could soon lose what many ...

A sign indicating speed limit and distance signs are measured in metric is shown in Halifax in a Nov.22, 1983 file photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS (Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS) Canadians measure weather in ...

Get ready for a wild story featuring angry farmers, lawbreaking butchers, constitutional lawsuits, a 'freedom' gallons-only gas station — and the unquenchable Canadian spirit of patriotic pragmatism ...