The time has finally come for the metric system’s long-scheduled upgrade. Next week, the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) will meet for the 26th time. When it does, it will revamp the ...

Fairness and justice were difficult before we looked to creation for our measurements. There are few sermon series on the metric system. There are Christian books about rulers aplenty, but always ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thank you, Mike Francis, for your Editorial Sketchbook in Sunday's edition, which inspired this piece for submission consideration ("Embassy with unwelcome embellishments," Nov. 1. I love my job. As a ...

When former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced he was joining the 2016 Democratic primary race, some people scratched their heads when he said switching to the metric system would be one of ...

NPR librarian Kee Malesky has been dubbed "the source of all human knowledge," saving NPR hosts and reporters from themselves for 20 years. She shares her adventures from the reference desk in a ...

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 ...

Have you ever noticed that systems of measurement tends to change when you leave the United States? Weight is typically measured in kilograms instead of pounds, distance is measured in kilometers over ...

A mural of a 30-meter-long blue whale covers the basketball court at Santa Barbara Charter School. (Courtesy photo) Santa Barbara Charter School has secured a $5,000 grant from the Santa Barbara ...