Nearly every country in the world uses the metric system as its official system of weights and measurements. Yes, fellow Americans, we are among the exceptions to this rule, but there’s no use crying ...

Understanding how that refusal might be connected with their absence from the Metric System and finally learning, precisely, how the Metric System was invented, in comparison to the Imperial System ...

We are living in an island of sanity surrounded by a world not governed by our simple rules of freedom but by logic incomprehensible to our minds. After spending the past year studying abroad in ...

Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state in 1794, was eagerly awaiting a meeting with French physician and botanist Joseph Dombey. The Frenchman was supposed to meet Jefferson in Philadelphia to discuss a ...