Fox News host Tucker Carlson railed against the metric system of measurement in his show on Wednesday night, describing it as "inelegant" and "creepy." James Panero, a cultural critic and executive ...

In prehistoric times, not much needed to be measured. You ate what you found and lived where you could. The advent of agriculture and civilization, however, necessitated a way for people to measure ...

If I'd have received a cookie for every single time I got myself into an argument with someone about how much horsepower a certain car has, then I'd probably not be able to fit in a mid-size car now.

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 ...

Canadians measure their height in feet and inches but record distances in kilometers, express the air temperature in degrees ...

The metric system lives no longer on American highways. The Arizona Department of Transportation is preparing to take down the signs on Interstate 19 that tell a motorist that it’s 64 kilometers to ...

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 ...

When Britons voted this summer to leave the European Union, many did so because of weighty concerns about the union's future. There are real worries about the continent's struggle with economic ...

As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...

If you know your U.S. history, there have been several attempts to adopt the metric system, all to no avail. It's the universal standard for most of the world and way more intuitive, yet the chances ...