May is a month full of celebrations—everything from May Day and Cinco de Mayo to Mother’s Day and Memorial Day. Largely forgotten in the cornucopia of May celebrations, however, is National Metric ...

A mural of a 30-meter-long blue whale covers the basketball court at Santa Barbara Charter School. (Courtesy photo) Santa Barbara Charter School has secured a $5,000 grant from the Santa Barbara ...

Here’s a good trivia question: What are the only 3 countries in the world that do not use the metric system? Everybody knows the good ol’ hard headed USA is in there, but the other two? How about ...

Students are introduced to the metric system. Introduction to Chemistry continues with a discussion of the Metric System: length, mass, volume, time and temperature are defined, and students learn the ...

The field of metric learning focuses on tailoring distance metrics to better capture the underlying structure in data by learning from examples. By optimising the measure of similarity between samples ...

The United States is one of just three countries that "prefers" imperial measurements over the international metric standard. The motivation why has less to do with official policy than you might ...