But that’s not all: we also measure temperature in degrees Fahrenheit instead of Celsius. While most of the rest of the world uses the metric system (formally known as the International System ...

A radical initiative for its time, the Metre Convention ultimately birthed a system of measurement that would transcend ...

The risk of having multiple flavors of an ‘accuracy’ or ‘quality’ metric is that everyone will ... What do I use to measure whether a model is working well? Measuring the outcome of ...

"It's similar to how you might not notice your own child's growth, but you do notice it in a friend's child you don't see ...

When she left school many years ago, reader Pauline Hughes was considered for a junior office job in Dundee. The bloke interviewing her commenced proceedings by saying: “Would you stick out your ...

This is our reputation in libraries in the Bay Area — we do a lot with very little,” says county librarian Alison McKee.

You know what happened: Everyone dug in. The result was a compromise that made nobody happy: cuts too modest for the hardliners, yet deep enough to jeopardize local services. And to plug the hole, ...

In a stride towards integrating wearable technology with clinical health monitoring, researchers have identified a new fitness metric ... equivalents (METs), a measure of cardiorespiratory ...

There's been growing bipartisan support in recent years for changing the grades. Critics say they don't measure enough of ...