Metric Units for the Solar System is an exploration of our relationship with the systems of ‘standardized units’ we have created to order society; examining the various tensions implicit in the ...

The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed 150 years ago for the metric system that underpins daily life. On May 20, ...

The US is wrong and metric is best.

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 ...

A road sign shows the speed limit in kilometers per hour, in Pointe-Fortune, Quebec, Canada, on February 17, 2021. ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP Going to a hardware store in Canada is a disorienting experience ...