shun progress or conformation and live in a bygone age (August 24). The EEC and the EU, in their time, have enacted much silly and ridiculous legislation but metrication is not one of them. Its slow ...

America’s reluctance to convert to the metric system was once famously lampooned by television’s longest-running animated sitcom, "The Simpsons," in an episode from way back in the Nineties. During a ...

The UK Metrication Association (UKMA) held its first national members’ conference in London on Saturday, September 22 with the theme “It’s time to change”. The conference concluded with a call on the ...

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