Dariusz Jemielniak is Vice-President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and Professor at Kozminski ...

The United States is one of just three countries that "prefers" imperial measurements over the international metric standard. The motivation why has less to do with official policy than you might ...

Jeffy Mai was the Associate Editor for Eater’s Midwest region, and has been covering Chicago’s dining scene for over a decade. Metric Coffee has made its way to Avondale with Milli, a sprawling cafe ...

A metric prefix is a numerical multiplier that is placed before a basic unit of measure to indicate a specified multiple or fraction of that unit. The 20 recognized metric prefixes have been specified ...

34 KM FROM NOGALES, Ariz.— The highway that runs from Tucson, Ariz. to Mexico is about 63 miles long, but that fact won’t do you any good. That’s because I-19 is the only American highway that fully ...

Wondering why the United States measures things in inches and pounds? The answer will definitely surprise you All countries use the metric system to varying degrees. Most of the world has adopted the ...

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 ...

Mathematician and author, the Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) was an aristocrat who nevertheless embraced the early stage of the French Revolution. Even as the Jacobins hunted him down during the ...