Appelbaum: We've arrived at a hybrid system. Most American rulers show inches along one edge, centimeters along the other. Is it possible that the metric system will slowly displace English ...

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.

Fairness and justice were difficult before we looked to creation for our measurements. There are few sermon series on the metric system. There are Christian books about rulers aplenty, but always ...

A dozenal ruler would allow you to divide the wood ... which makes them more accessible than the seemingly cold, exact metric system. Although there are some perceived minor advantages of the ...

“You will get my American system ruler when you pry it from my cold dead hand.” Advocates of the metric system are accustomed to such scorn. Back in 1972, Rhode Island senator Claiborne Pell ...