Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced Wednesday his bid to become the Democratic nominee for president in 2016, and in his stump speech, his pushed for America to use the metric system.

Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Fall, 1995), pp. 59-77 (19 pages) A music-theoretic discussion of metric structure. Describing a musical passage as "metric" usually ...

As president of the U.S. Metric Association, Donald Hillger would like to think that his non-profit advocacy group had something to do with presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee's call for America to ...

The US hasn't fully adopted the metric system but "Unstoppable" author Bill Nye says some of the measurement is "creeping in." Here is his theory on why we haven't made the switch. Produced by Justin ...