Metric is the system of internationalism, and those who wish to fight it are against the country going metric. But Mihm told me that “most Americans just don’t really care that much.

Ever wonder why America sticks to inches and pounds? Turns out, pirates played a surprising role in keeping the metric system ...

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The US almost adopted the metric system—but a ship carrying the official standards was intercepted by pirates. That’s right, pirates may have changed the course of American measurement forever.

Soccer and the metric system were rebukes to American exceptionalism — American thickheadedness and backwardness. Now, of course, everything’s cool, and we’d all walk kilometers to watch soccer.

Hard Lessons At the Olympics, Like The Metric System As the Olympics have shown, participation in sports at this high level can teach discipline, perseverance and teamwork.

Meet the metric system’s newest prefixes: ronna-, quetta-, ronto- and quecto-. Adopted November 18 at the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles, France, ronna- and quetta ...

Boris Johnson's government is eyeing a move to allow shop stalls and supermarkets to use only imperial units in all transactions, ditching a metric requirement from when the U.K. was in the EU.

The metric system was officially adopted in France on December 10, 1799. Government proclamation was one thing, but practical use was another. Many people preferred their old customs of measurement.

NASA has ostensibly used the metric system since about 1990, the statement said, but English units are still employed on some missions, and a few projects use both. NASA uses both English and ...

Samuel Arbesman reviews "Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet," by John Bemelmans Marciano.