The ongoing use of the imperial system in the United States, despite the global adoption of the metric system, raises intriguing questions about tradition, practicality, and cultural identity. This ...

Republicans Should Think Much Bigger on Tax Cuts ‘The metric system did not really catch on in the States,” humorist Dave Barry once joked, “unless you count the increasing popularity of the ...

In the meantime, a new system of weights and measures, developed by French scientists following the Revolution of 1789, gained increasing international use. This metric system had as its fundamental ...