The can was in US customary units, while the bottle was ... the unwillingness of America to take up the metric system speaks to a far larger issue: American exceptionalism. It’s a political ...

While most of the rest of the world uses the metric system (formally known as the International System of Units, or SI), the United States uses the U.S. Customary System, which—fun fact—is ...

“Metric is the assumed system of measurement in science,” Colby said. (The Common Core State Standards for mathematics include learning both metric and customary measurements.) Some research ...

Without a mandate to change, the switch over to metric has been very slow — metaphorically, in millimeters per year. Where did our customary system come from, anyway? It developed over time in ...

(Technically, the American system known as Imperial is called United States customary units or USCS.) It also argues that the decimalized metric system is simpler to work with. SI units ...

And the US has been a dual system since. While most people don’t notice it, just about everything is required to be labeled in both US customary and metric. This dual labeling also costs ...

Can the United States of America continue to stand alone against the looming threat of… the metric system? That was the thrust of a June 5 segment by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, in which he ...

Hillger says that even countries that have fully adopted the metric system also measure certain things in U.S. customary units or their own local system of measurement. “Even in your best metric ...

The can was in US customary units, while the bottle was ... the unwillingness of America to take up the metric system speaks to a far larger issue: American exceptionalism. It's a political ...

The metric system is, quietly and behind the scenes ... Not when it comes to cultural issues, and customary measures are certainly a part of our national culture. But to have brains trained ...