This video breaks down why metric is the global standard, how it’s defined by the laws of physics, and why the U.S., Liberia, and Myanmar remain the last holdouts. Could the world ever fully ...

Meet the metric system’s newest prefixes: ronna-, quetta-, ronto- and quecto-. Science News spoke with Richard Brown, head of metrology at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, England, ...

From currency and commerce, food labels to laboratories, the metric system is the foundation of many science and math fields. And while the United States hasn't fully adopted the metric system, the ...

On April 19, 1973, Wilson Riles, superintendent of public instruction for California. called to announce that beginning in 1976 the metric system would be taught in California. The reaction from the ...

Walter Block argues that “Canadians Hate the Metric System” imposed on them in 1975 (op-ed, Sept. 16). In the same year, reacting to the Metric Conversion Act, Americans resisted metrics. For example, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the wake of the Revolution of 1789 ...

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 ...