Why is the U.S. still one of only a handful of countries around the world to not use the metric system? The world is full of questions we all want answers to but are either too embarrassed, time ...

Although the United States hasn’t adopted the metric system as the sole system of measurement, in reality, we use the metric system every day. “This is particularly the case in medicine ...

Myanmar, Liberia, and the United States of America. Those are the only three countries left in the world that don’t use the metric system. Ted-Ed traces ...

Why we should use metric system. Staff Writer. Observer-Dispatch. On April 19, 1973, Wilson Riles, superintendent of public instruction for California. called to announce that beginning in 1976 ...

Why we still use the calorie: a British vs. French rivalry A calorie is technically the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius, and might be used ...

Has anyone got any genuine reasons why imperial is better than metric, I asked. I got more than 2,000 replies Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent ...

When we saw a ‘We the People’ petition to the White House to make the US move to the metric system, we listed very sensible reasons why the US should listen: The imperial system is archaic ...

The Metric Act of 1866 legalized the use of the Metric System in the U.S. but, unlike most other countries, the U.S. never went to a mandatory system using Metric. We came close in the 1970’s ...

Why Pirates Might Be the Reason the United States Doesn’t Use the Metric System. ... And yet, we still measure distance in miles, gasoline by the gallon and hamburgers by the quarter pound.

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.